Spooky goings-on at an all-girls school aims for The Shining’s genre-classic status but ends up being a dreary exercise drained of drama One of the joys of watching Mad Men from end to end is watching Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka) grow up before our eyes. Now she has entered the most ill-advised stage of her adolescence: wasting time in boring,albeit visually intriguing, pseudo-intellectual horror films far beneath her station.
Shipka plays Kat, or a peaceful girl at a private girls’ school prone to spooky visions. It’s the day when parents are supposed to reach for a visit and whisk the girls absent for a weekend,but hers don’t arrive and are not available by phone. There’s an image of a destroyed car; somehow she knows they are dead.
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Source: theguardian.com