FilmRPsychological Gothic Survival

Boarding School2018

Name: Boarding School
Genre: Psychological, Gothic, Survival
Released: 2018-08-30
Rating: 5.7

“Jacob is having a bad day at school.”

Directed by Boaz Yakin

5.7

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IMDb 5.9Rotten Tomatoes 33%Metacritic 45TMDB 6.3

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Year

2018

Runtime

111 min

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Twelve-year-old Jacob is uprooted from his troubled home life and deposited in a crumbling, near-empty mansion that passes for a school — where the handful of misfit students and their unsettling teachers make ordinary fears feel quaint. The oppressive atmosphere thickens as Jacob begins to suspect that the institution hides something far darker than harsh discipline. What begins as a coming-of-age story steadily curdles into a fight for survival, anchored by a young protagonist forced to grow up fast in the worst possible circumstances.

Content: Threat To Children, Psychological Abuse, Violence Toward Minors, Dark Themes Involving Authority Figures