![]() ![]() ![]() While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.įeeling recognized in ways they never did previously when they were considered “troubled,” the teens begin to assert themselves in new ways. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women also headed down a troubled path. Kit (AnnaSophia Robb), a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. The shadows descend … the floors creak… a winding staircase bends … portraits breathe… and then, down a dark hall is where identity, passion, creativity and terror face off in director Rodrigo Cortés’ film of Lois Duncan’s iconic 1974 suspense novel Down A Dark Hall. At the heart of the story is the cost of creativity, the desire for it - the dimension-crossing need for it, in fact - and the mysterious forces that may be part of tapping into it. ![]()
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