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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer advertises the film as being "From the producers of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga]]''", presumably because Creator/StephenieMeyer is one of the film's producers.

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer advertises the film as being "From the producers of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga]]''", ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''", presumably because Creator/StephenieMeyer is one of the film's producers.
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'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVpB094Clc Trailer 1]]

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'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVpB094Clc Trailer 1]]1]].
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* BigFancyHouse: Blackwood is one of these.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Since this is an adaptation of a novel that also features one of these, this is a given.

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* %%* BigFancyHouse: Blackwood is one of these.
* %%* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Since this is an adaptation of a novel that also features one of these, this is a given.
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I honestly do not see why you didn't use that redirect (unless it wasn't created at the time). However, we're not supposed to edit trope names.


* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Subverted. Kit and Dave don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.

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* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: WickedStepfather: Subverted. Kit and Dave don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.
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When Katherine "Kit" Gordy (Robb) is sent to the Blackwood Boarding School due to her hot temper, where she meets four other young women like herself. However, they soon learn that Blackwood is hiding a secret...

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When Katherine "Kit" Gordy (Robb) is sent to the Blackwood Boarding School due to her hot temper, where she meets four other young women like herself. However, they soon learn that Blackwood is hiding a secret...
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* DrivenToSuicide: Whatever happens in the school is immensely mentally taxing for the girls, and their physical and mental state deteriorates quickly through the movie as [[spoiler:their use as vessels for deceased artists and thinkers]], which prompts [[spoiler:Ashley]] to kill herself.
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Dan is Dave in the movie


* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Subverted. Kit and Dan don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.

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* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Subverted. Kit and Dan Dave don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.
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The film is set for release on August 17, 2018.

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The film is set for release on was released August 17, 2018.
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* AdaptationNameChange: While the characters in this film play out similar roles to the one in the books all of the girls at Blackwood besides Kit do not retain their book names. Sandy, Ruth and Lynda are now Ashley, Izzy and Sierra.


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* CanonForeigner: Veronica and Miss Olonsky are not from the book.
* DoingItForTheArt: What Madame Duret claims as her motive in-universe, the simple desire to allow the great artists and thinkers of the past a chance to complete their life's work. However, it's hard not to notice that Madame Duret is [[MoneyDearBoy making a fortune selling the works of her students as "lost masterpieces."]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Jules is a willing participant in his mother's scheme, but once he finds out that [[spoiler: every previous girl she's tried this on is dead or in a mental institution]], he changes sides immediately.


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* ScienceIsBad: Madame Duret and her staff see the girls as expendable subjects in important research.
* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Subverted. Kit and Dan don't particularly get along, but Kit doesn't resent him and honestly wants her mother to be happy in her second marriage.
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* AlphaBitch: Veronica comes off as one. She joins the line by abrasively pushing some of the girls aside.
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer advertises the film as being "From the producers of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga]]''.

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer advertises the film as being "From the producers of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga]]''.Saga]]''", presumably because Creator/StephenieMeyer is one of the film's producers.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Welcome to Blackwood. Where lost girls find their way.]]'']]
''Down a Dark Hall'' is a 2018 {{horror}} film directed by Rodrigo Cortés (''Film/{{Buried}}'') and starring Creator/AnnaSophiaRobb, Creator/IsabelleFuhrman and Creator/UmaThurman. It is based on [[Literature/DownADarkHall the novel of the same name]] by Creator/LoisDuncan.

When Katherine "Kit" Gordy (Robb) is sent to the Blackwood Boarding School due to her hot temper, where she meets four other young women like herself. However, they soon learn that Blackwood is hiding a secret...

The film is set for release on August 17, 2018.

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVpB094Clc Trailer 1]]
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!!''Down a Dark Hall'' has examples of the following:

* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer advertises the film as being "From the producers of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga]]''.
* BigFancyHouse: Blackwood is one of these.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Since this is an adaptation of a novel that also features one of these, this is a given.
* JumpScare: Quite a few of these can be seen in the trailer.
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