The Night Eats The World

“When you’re hurt and scared for so long, the fear and pain turn to hate and the hate starts to change the world.”

Boarding School will be released in select theaters and on VOD on August 31 via Momentum Pictures. Jacob is having a bad day at school on the poster above and the trailer below.

Written and directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans, Fresh), the horror film stars newcomer Luke Prael, alongside Sterling Jerins (The Conjuring), Samantha Mathis (American Psycho), and Will Patton (Armageddon).

School is out forever in the trailer below, where you’ll also find the synopsis.

These make me so dang happy 😂

Let these bodies be witness to our love.

There’s been some real gems this year, I’m very pleased with the general direction and quality of the horror genre recently.

I do regard this as a horror, not in a classic sense but it was one of the most heart pounding trips to the cinema I have had in a LONG time!! I felt dread and concern not only for the charecters, but myself, for the first time in a long time I was genuinely wary of what depths the film could reach and wether I was prepared.

Being caught off guard was part of why I had such a visceral reaction to the film so I really recommend going in as blind as possible.

The dread was palpable, I was literally exhausted by the end but in the best possible way. From the soundtrack to the pacing I was totally sucked in from start to finish.

It contrasts really nicely with my other top pick for the year Midsommar. I think I’ve been almost conditioned to expect a slow, more meditative build of dread when I approach more serious presentations of “horror”. Which is why, by the time I reached the “climax” my eyeballs had essentially rolled out of my head.

Between this and Suspiria I’m starting to think there’s a magic sub genre forming. And come to think of it....there’s atcually quite a few examples of the mash up (wicker man, night of the demons, black swan) hmmmm......this is a post for another time.