2018 · horror · mystery · coming-of-age
Boarding School
Directed by Boaz Yakin1h 51m2018
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.
Our read: Boarding School (2018) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · mystery · coming-of-age entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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