Spoilers ahead. Did You Know? ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. We’re considering expanding this synopsis into a full-length study guide to deepen your comprehension of the book and why it's important. The most interesting thing about the film is its message—what it’s saying about gender in 2018. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Down a Dark Hall near you. This summary of Down a Dark Hall includes a complete plot overview – spoilers included! 17:When Kit woke up that morning she felt as if she had never slept, she realized that her right hand was cramped, and the music book that was on her desk was half filled.Sandy told Kit that the same thing happened to her, she had wrote another poem, It was Sandy’s handwriting but it was in french. Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. NOTE: There is a brief post-credits scene. The hit horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) was also adapted from a … DOWN A DARK HALL is based on a 1974 novel by YA-thriller queen Lois Duncan, whose I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER was loosely adapted into the teen-slasher hit. That isn’t actually the disturbing part of reading Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall (1974/2011) today. The movie is based on a book with the same title "Down a Dark Hall" by Lois Duncan. Trivia. Written in 1974, prolific young-adult novelist Lois Duncan’s “Down a Dark Hall” intriguingly anticipated some of the tropes of latterday YA fantasy-fiction blockbusters. It’s not insignificant that Down a Dark Hall seems a new incarnation of the “female gothic,” a literary tradition that stretches back to late eighteenth-century British writer Anne Radcliffe and that has always served as a commentary on gender and power. Though it also focuses on high-school-age heroines, DOWN A DARK HALL belongs to a more classical horror tradition and will likely be better appreciated by older audiences. Review Score: 60 Set in the present day, Down a Dark Hall liberally borrows elements from gothic horror to style its gloomy atmosphere. “Down a Dark Hall” doesn’t try any harder than necessary, which turns out to be okay considering its inoffensive intentions of serving up slumber party spooks and soapy young adult drama.