Boarding School is a 2018 American horror film written and directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Luke Prael, Sterling Jerins, and Will Patton.

Jacob Rathbone is a 12-year-old boy with a fear of the dark who lives with his stepfather, Davis and his mother, Isabel, who is frustrated with her son’s frequent night terrors.

Christine lures Jacob to her room, where she confesses to talking Frederic into trying out autoerotic asphyxiation and pushing him to death to divert everybody’s attention so she could escape.

Throughout the film, the audience is shown flashbacks where, being forced into hiding during World War II, Jacob's grandmother Feiga, a recluse, sharpened her teeth with a nail file, while her compatriot, Tsipi was frequently raped and tortured by a Nazi soldier in exchange for her life.

[2] Dennis Harvey of Variety called the film a "conceptually muddled mix of quasi-horror" and concluded that it is "too slowly paced to deliver much excitement, let alone scares, while its respectable packaging elements are too conservative to provide enough atmosphere.

"[3] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter laments that "Yakin's script wants to deal with some big issues" but "looking cool isn't quite enough to drive the action home.

"[4] Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com gave it 1½ stars, writing, "Yakin's film offers little clarity with all of its hammy, left-field ideas, in spite of their originality when packaged as a horror movie."