![]() ![]() ![]() Protagonist Kit (AnnaSophia Robb) blossoms into a master piano player Ashley (Taylor Russell) starts writing brilliant poetry Sierra (Rosie Day) paints captivating landscapes and Izzy (Isabelle Fuhrman) transforms into a math genius. And, indeed, the girls soon display talents they didn’t know they had. They are the only five students in a vast isolated mansion presided over by the mysterious Madame Duret (Uma Thurman), who soon makes it clear that the girls have special abilities that she intends to foster. In a plot reminiscent of The Craft (1996) or American Horror Story’s third season, “Coven” (2013-14), Down a Dark Hall centers on five girls with troubled pasts who arrive at Blackwood Boarding School, sent their by their parents as a kind of last resort. ![]() The screenplay is written by Michael Goldbach and Chris Sparling and based on the 1974 novel by the young adult author Lois Duncan (who also wrote, among others, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Killing Mr. Down a Dark Hall is directed by Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés who directed the critically-acclaimed Buried (2010). ![]()
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