First DOWN A DARK HALL Trailer Check out the first DOWN A DARK HALL trailer! The film, directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Red Lights, Buried), stars AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Taylor Russell, and Isabelle Fuhrman. DOWN A DARK HALL will be released in theaters on August 17. Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, confronts the institution’s supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress.