...a worthless ordeal that fares much, much worse than one might've feared.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Feb 23, 2021

Dispiritingly bland gothic nonsense, more concerned with gloomy atmosphere and trite adolescent angst than with creating a compelling story.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 7, 2018

Thurman exhibits an eccentric authority that has to be seen to be disbelieved.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 16, 2018

The over-the-top acting and unconvincing special effects, along with the lack of any true element of horror, make the film difficult to watch at times.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Duncan supplies an enjoyably bizarre reason for hellraising, and Cortes almost finds a way to sustain weirdness for 90 minutes.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2018

This murky, muddled attempt at Gothic horror set in a school is pretty to look at, but gets an F in the subject of scares.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The mood is agreeably creepy but the plot grows increasingly silly.

| Original Score: C | Aug 19, 2018

Moody and creepy, this Gothic thriller is admirable in its effort to achieve subtle scares but ultimately too tame to truly thrill - though it does feature a reasonably satisfying finale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2018

Some stylish touches are undone by overwrought genre tropes and an abundance of supernatural nonsense.

| Aug 17, 2018

Down a Dark Hall eventually goes Down a Convoluted Tunnel, with some admittedly creepy but also just plain crazy sequences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2018

Rodrigo Cortés' mild supernatural mystery often feels like an incomplete genre exercise; one that reluctantly tiptoes around its "Suspiria"-for-teens premise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2018

This is a decent modern Gothic thriller handled with sufficient style and a straight face by genre ace Cortés.

| Aug 17, 2018

An otherwise forgettable and routine horror movie, Down a Dark Hall does provide one spark of cleverness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2018

The scares might not satisfy those old enough to vote, but it should provide mild chills for its target audience.

| Aug 16, 2018

Teen ghost story adaptation is macabre enough to entertain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2018

With each new element, "Down a Dark Hall" reveals itself, with improbable delight, to be genuinely strange - a movie in which viewers can pick their own pleasure, no two spectators having exactly the same experience.

| Aug 16, 2018

The Gothic haunted-house thriller Down a Dark Hall is loaded with atmospheric chills, in service to a story that goes from labored tedium to full-tilt crazy - but not enough of the latter to make up for the former.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2018

Ultimately, Down a Dark Hall falls victim to familiar teen horror tropes: a brooding lead with a heart of gold, predictable jump scares, wincingly bad romantic tension, and obvious villains.

| Aug 15, 2018

Its elegant subtlety feels refreshing in this era of over-the-top horror films.

| Aug 15, 2018

This supernatural chiller is a delightfully sneaky surprise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2018