“After four minutes of anguish, you have a jump, then you’re gonna feel relief. “The scare is about anticipation,” says Cortés. It’s a perfectly choreographed jump scare. It’s a four-minute-long single-tracking shot, but the camera moves like it’s on a swivel, keeping the point of view on Kit’s gaze, and keeping the danger hidden from view - until, finally, the frame shifts and lands right on the face of a disfigured ghost man screaming just inches away from her face.
After following a suspicious sound, she ends up running through a corridor pursued by shadows. In the film’s biggest conventional thrill, our heroine, Kit (AnnaSophia Robb) is finally willing to confront the true nature of Blackwood.
Basically, it’s a fancy gothic prison, and the beautiful, worldly warden is running experiments on the inmates.ĭark Hall plays like a classic fairy tale, but there’s one moment that sneaks an adrenaline shot into a movie otherwise fully dedicated to the terror of dread. The house, called Blackwood, is run by Madame Duret (Uma Thurman being wonderfully extra with a mostly French accent), and while she seems like the one who will finally channel each of their unique energies into something productive, what she’s actually doing is preying on the castoffs, who possess powerful sixth senses they’ve been repressing their whole lives.
The stylish haunted-house film from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés focuses on a group of teen girl misfits who end up at a posh alternative school after they’ve exhausted all the other educational and therapeutic resources in their daily lives. But amid all the flesh-eating is Down a Dark Hall, a good old-fashioned ghost story based on the novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. This year’s horror cinema has been a zombie-heavy slate, not to mention the inexplicable number of mutant Nazi movies coming in the back half of 2018.
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