[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Down a Dark Hall (2018)

Atmospheric Spanish / US supernatural chiller set at the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School for girls.

Although not an awful lot happens and it's certainly not the usual girl school exploitation fest, the bleak atmosphere (thanks to the darkly lit halls of the title) bleeds through every pore and the quality of the acting makes it seem perhaps better than it actually is. More akin to Corman's Poe cycle than say The Exorcist, the denouement is at least an original concept.

Uma Thurman steals the show as the elegantly icy Madame Duret who runs and quietly manipulates goings on at the school.