svader
Not sure what the reviewers who rated this a 10 were watching.No substance, nonsensical story line and terrible acting by mid twenty-one things pretending to be teens !!Awful.
midge-34180
Boring nothing scary or special about this film. Glad I didn't pay to see it at the cinema
ferant
It's much more than a typical teen terror movie.
As a problematic teenager, to become an adult you have to go down a dark hall.
In this life if you fail in school, your home looks like hell to you, and you feel everybody else is to blame but you, someone will try to use you in order to get his goals, throwing you away right after.
And one big question: will you give up your life to let a genius that died young, continue to create amazing master pieces that will last till eternity? Is it worth it? Maybe not for the one person giving up his life, but for mankind?
cbielgib
Now its official, Rodrigo Cortés can't give a proper ending to a movie. The main problem with Down a Dark Hall is that it is not as bad as you expected it was going to be (again, marketing departments should make a better effort with their trailers). The first hour works fine, the suspense is well built and there are a few atmospheric scenes and decent scares. But my main issues comes with the last act, to be fair it is not a complete disaster... but almost, movie is mainly saved by a superb AnnaSophia Robb, she steals the show.I wont get into spoilers but from the ballroom scene the movie turns into a ridiculous mess, rushed to an unsatisfying cliché ending. But also some wrong script choices, a few cheesy dialogue lines and the usual, painfully bad, cheap, EVIDENT CGI. Plus the poor locations, the forced all-American style (art direction is weak), the ridiculous villain(s) and an overacted Uma Thurman (with a weird look and a silly accent) doesn't help either.