At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
Acting
Regina Hall's controlled unraveling—every micro-expression burns.
Direction
Diallo's debut balances psychological and supernatural horror with surgical precision.
Production
The suffocating colonial architecture is practically a character.
Director
Mariama Diallo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Diallo drew from her own experiences at Yale, where a dorm's slave-owning namesake sparked student protests in 2015.
The film's lukewarm reception largely came from white critics expecting Conjuring-style scares instead of the social horror Diallo actually delivered.
US
