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Uma Thurman And AnnaSophia Robb Head ‘Down A Dark Hall’ In New Trailer

Lionsgate’s new supernatural thriller Down a Dark Hall has a brand new trailer. Based on the novel by the same name penned by Lois Duncan, the film was directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) and has a fantastic cast that includes Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction), AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf), Taylor Russell (Falling Skies), Rosie Day (Outlander), and Noah Silver (The Tribes of Palos Verdes). Down a Dark Hall follows “Kit (Robb), a difficult young girl, sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women also headed down a troubled path. While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.” Down a Dark Hall will arrive

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May 23, 2018
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Dates for 2017 Stranger With My Face International Film Festival Announced

The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, which takes it’s name from the title of a young adult horror fiction novel written by Lois Duncan, is returning May 4th – 7th for its fifth edition. The four day festival will be held in Tasmania’s capital city of Hobart, and will include screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and a number of year round “satellite events”. The festival specifically showcases the work of women directors, as well as exploring female perspectives within the realm of genre film. It has also become an important resource in Australia for genre film, and takes great pride in its involvement with the Women in Horror movement. Festival Director Briony Kidd expressed just how relevant of such a festival is in this day and age, when she said, “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world. Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is

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Feb 5, 2017

More from Lois Duncan

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Uma Thurman And AnnaSophia Robb Head ‘Down A Dark Hall’ In New Trailer

Lionsgate’s new supernatural thriller Down a Dark Hall has a brand new trailer. Based on the novel by the same name penned by Lois Duncan, the film was directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) and has a fantastic cast that includes Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction), AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf), Taylor Russell (Falling Skies), Rosie Day (Outlander), and Noah Silver (The Tribes of Palos Verdes). Down a Dark Hall follows “Kit (Robb), a difficult young girl, sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School when her heated temper becomes too much for her mother to handle. Once she arrives at Blackwood, Kit encounters eccentric headmistress Madame Duret (Thurman) and meets the school’s only other students, four young women also headed down a troubled path. While exploring the labyrinthine corridors of the school, Kit and her classmates discover that Blackwood Manor hides an age-old secret rooted in the paranormal.” Down a Dark Hall will arrive

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May 23, 2018
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Dates for 2017 Stranger With My Face International Film Festival Announced

The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, which takes it’s name from the title of a young adult horror fiction novel written by Lois Duncan, is returning May 4th – 7th for its fifth edition. The four day festival will be held in Tasmania’s capital city of Hobart, and will include screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions and a number of year round “satellite events”. The festival specifically showcases the work of women directors, as well as exploring female perspectives within the realm of genre film. It has also become an important resource in Australia for genre film, and takes great pride in its involvement with the Women in Horror movement. Festival Director Briony Kidd expressed just how relevant of such a festival is in this day and age, when she said, “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world. Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is

Continue reading →
Feb 5, 2017