Boarding School
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- Official Trailer (01:34)
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Synopsis
Personal attention is so important to a child’s education – provided that attention comes from people who aren’t creepy AF. Sadly, poor Jacob Felsen is about to find himself in the wrong kind of learning environment in this slick horror flick from writer/director Boaz Yakin (Remember The Titans, Now You See Me). Jacob is a “troubled” 12-year-old whose parents commit him to an ominous boarding school in a secluded mansion, where he will learn alongside six other young misfits under the tutelage of two menacing teachers. Is there more to this set-up than meets the eye? Oh, you betcha!
Cast
- Samantha Mathis
- Will Patton
- Robert John Burke
- Lucy Walters
- Tammy Blanchard
- Nadia Alexander
- Sterling Jerins
- David Aaron Baker
- Christopher Dylan White
- Stephen Bogardus
Atom User Reviews
Metacritic
Boarding School has some edge by being told from a child’s perspective, even though it's not for kids. A lot of great directors have told this kind of story, and while Guillermo Del Toro might be the most popular living one to do it, it’s Louis Malle that comes to mind.
Writer-director Boaz Yakin, who has directed everything from veteran movie stars to canine thesps in his career, has a harder time with child actors, eliciting performances that are uneven enough to attract attention to the script's weaker aspects.
As horror movies go, Boarding School is worth seeing simply because it’s different. Not weird, off-the-wall different like mother! or Hereditary, but different in a good way.
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