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Movie Review: Boarding School (2018)

Young Jacob (Luke Prael) is a bed wettin’ teen dude in a night terrors mood…a condition that is driving his already off-kilter mother (Samantha Mathis) even more insane, adding to the “fun” of our hero’s life are a cadre of abusive peers and the fact that he is slowly taking on the persona of his recently deceased grand mother…right down to dressing like her. This doesn’t really go over to well, so off he goes to a rural boarding school far from his New York City home. Once there he gets a room mate, a pint sized Richard Lynch clone named Phil (Nadia Alexander…yeah, you read right, this part is played by a female, and her “trying to sound like a boy” voice is a super big distraction even though her acting is pretty damn solid)…but our burnt buddy isn’t the only surprise waiting for Jacob, as every student in the school has a behavioral problem or disability, and the

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DanXIII
Aug 31, 2018
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Learn A Lesson In Terror From Boaz Yaklin’s ‘Boarding School’ (Trailer)

From acclaimed writer-director Boaz Yakin (Safe, Remember the Titans) comes a new lesson in terror, Boarding School. This disturbing horror-thriller centers on a young boy who has become fascinated with the persona of his dead grandmother. When he arrives at an isolated boarding school for misfits he finds that is run by a mysterious headmaster and his wife out to give students a lesson they won’t forget…if they survive. Samantha Mathis, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Walters, Sterling, and Christopher Dylan White star. Boarding School opens in theaters on August 31, 2018, from Momentum Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2018
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Boaz Yakin’s Boarding School Acquired By IM Global

Sterling Jerins in The Conjuring 2 IM Global has picked up the international rights to the horror thriller ‘Boarding School’, from director ‘Boaz Yakin’ (Remember the Titans). The film is “a horrifying fable about an ominous boarding school where children deemed “undesirable” are committed. Twelve-year-old Jacob Felson is sent away by his stepfather to the mysterious school run by a peculiar couple, Dr. Sherman and his dominating wife. When one of the students is found dead, Jacob begins to suspect something much more sinister is going on than education.” Will Patton (The Mothman Prophecies, The fourth Kind), Samantha Mathis (American Psycho), Sterling Jerins (The Conjuring 1 and 2), Tammy Blanchard (The Invitation), and Luke Prael (The Boy in a Backpack) star in this frightening film, which is now in post-production, Bloody-Disgusting reports. The release date has not been announced at this time. We will keep you posted. Will Paton in The Fourth Kind

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 5, 2016

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Movie Review: Boarding School (2018)

Young Jacob (Luke Prael) is a bed wettin’ teen dude in a night terrors mood…a condition that is driving his already off-kilter mother (Samantha Mathis) even more insane, adding to the “fun” of our hero’s life are a cadre of abusive peers and the fact that he is slowly taking on the persona of his recently deceased grand mother…right down to dressing like her. This doesn’t really go over to well, so off he goes to a rural boarding school far from his New York City home. Once there he gets a room mate, a pint sized Richard Lynch clone named Phil (Nadia Alexander…yeah, you read right, this part is played by a female, and her “trying to sound like a boy” voice is a super big distraction even though her acting is pretty damn solid)…but our burnt buddy isn’t the only surprise waiting for Jacob, as every student in the school has a behavioral problem or disability, and the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 31, 2018
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Learn A Lesson In Terror From Boaz Yaklin’s ‘Boarding School’ (Trailer)

From acclaimed writer-director Boaz Yakin (Safe, Remember the Titans) comes a new lesson in terror, Boarding School. This disturbing horror-thriller centers on a young boy who has become fascinated with the persona of his dead grandmother. When he arrives at an isolated boarding school for misfits he finds that is run by a mysterious headmaster and his wife out to give students a lesson they won’t forget…if they survive. Samantha Mathis, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Walters, Sterling, and Christopher Dylan White star. Boarding School opens in theaters on August 31, 2018, from Momentum Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 3, 2018
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Boaz Yakin’s Boarding School Acquired By IM Global

Sterling Jerins in The Conjuring 2 IM Global has picked up the international rights to the horror thriller ‘Boarding School’, from director ‘Boaz Yakin’ (Remember the Titans). The film is “a horrifying fable about an ominous boarding school where children deemed “undesirable” are committed. Twelve-year-old Jacob Felson is sent away by his stepfather to the mysterious school run by a peculiar couple, Dr. Sherman and his dominating wife. When one of the students is found dead, Jacob begins to suspect something much more sinister is going on than education.” Will Patton (The Mothman Prophecies, The fourth Kind), Samantha Mathis (American Psycho), Sterling Jerins (The Conjuring 1 and 2), Tammy Blanchard (The Invitation), and Luke Prael (The Boy in a Backpack) star in this frightening film, which is now in post-production, Bloody-Disgusting reports. The release date has not been announced at this time. We will keep you posted. Will Paton in The Fourth Kind

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 5, 2016