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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: [[spoiler:The killer's real target is Jacob, he kills everybody else for the sake of a cover-up.]]
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* TheSociopath: Dr. Sherman, who believes that religious abuse is the best way to curb bad behavior in children. [[spoiler:Made a lot worse by the fact that he's really a hitman who was hired to kill all the children, and killed the ''real'' Dr. Sherman to take his place.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mrs. Ramsay comes back to the school to pick up her son, not wanting the killer to kill him as she hired him to. Unfortunately, he's already done so.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mrs. Ramsay comes back to the school to pick up her son, not wanting the killer to kill him as she hired him to. Unfortunately, he's already done so.killed the boy and kills her to keep her quiet.]]
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'''''Boarding School''''' is a 2018 American {{horror film|s}}.
Jacob Jenken is a young boy who can see ghosts. He becomes especially fascinated by his grandmother, and ends up getting caught by his parents wearing her dress. He's sent to an isolated boarding school for misfits in an attempt to "cure" his affliction. Then the murders begin.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Jacob's mother's response to her son having constant night terrors is to scream in his face and threaten him, as opposed to taking him to a psychiatrist. His stepfather seems to be comparatively much better, but [[spoiler:hired a hitman to kill him]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:It's unclear whether or not the real Shermans were actually abusive, or if that's just the sadistic whims of the assassins who killed and replaced them.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Davis Jenken, Jacob's stepfather, hired the hitman killing everybody.]]
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: The school is run by fundamentalist Christians who believe that Bible study and corporal punishment is the only solution to deviant children, and that's ''before'' [[spoiler:the killer makes it into a front for a massacre he intends to commit]].
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Shermans were killed by contract killers who posed as them to get to a target.]]
* EroticAsphyxiation: [[spoiler:Christine convinces Frederick to try it, then kicks his feet out from under him in a desperate hope that his death will lead to him going home.]]
* TheFundamentalist: Aside from the Shermans, Frederick's mother is convinced her son's Tourette's is DemonicPossession.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mrs. Ramsay comes back to the school to pick up her son, not wanting the killer to kill him as she hired him to. Unfortunately, he's already done so.]]
* HollywoodTourettes: Frederick has an especially severe case, having compulsive swearing to the point that he can barely complete a sentence, extreme twitching and trouble breathing.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Jacob is regularly tormented by ghosts repeating traumatic events in their lives; others interpret it as severe night terrors.
* KarmaHoudini: The majority of the kids' parents get away with sending them to an abusive boarding school [[spoiler:that is secretly them hiring the headmaster to kill them.]]
* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:The killer is never given a name beyond his alias of "Dr. Daniel Sherman."]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The entire victim pool are being pursued because their parents hired the killer to kill them.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are spirits reliving traumatic events over and over again. Only some people can see them, usually in their dreams.
* ThePlace
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Christine is one of the more proactive characters in solving the school's mysteries, but she also constantly calls people retards. This is part of the DeliberateValuesDissonance of the film being set in TheNineties.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While it doesn't come up more than once, the killer does mention some anti-Semitic beliefs he holds.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:The killer has been a hitman since his teens, and loves his job.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Jacob poisons his stepfather for trying to have him killed at the end of the film.]]
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: [[spoiler:The killer's real target is Jacob, he kills everybody else for the sake of a cover-up.]]
* SexSlave: One of the women at Jacob's grandmother's funeral tells him about the time a Nazi soldier forced her to be his slave or he'd take her and all her friends to the camps.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Jacob's grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, and one Nazi made one of her friends into his sex slave under threat of sending them to the camps.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jacob spends an afternoon dancing around in his grandmother's cocktail dress.
* WickedStepfather: [[spoiler:The killer was hired by Jacob's stepfather to kill him.]]
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'''''Boarding School''''' is a 2018 American {{horror film|s}}.
Jacob Jenken is a young boy who can see ghosts. He becomes especially fascinated by his grandmother, and ends up getting caught by his parents wearing her dress. He's sent to an isolated boarding school for misfits in an attempt to "cure" his affliction. Then the murders begin.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Jacob's mother's response to her son having constant night terrors is to scream in his face and threaten him, as opposed to taking him to a psychiatrist. His stepfather seems to be comparatively much better, but [[spoiler:hired a hitman to kill him]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:It's unclear whether or not the real Shermans were actually abusive, or if that's just the sadistic whims of the assassins who killed and replaced them.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Davis Jenken, Jacob's stepfather, hired the hitman killing everybody.]]
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: The school is run by fundamentalist Christians who believe that Bible study and corporal punishment is the only solution to deviant children, and that's ''before'' [[spoiler:the killer makes it into a front for a massacre he intends to commit]].
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Shermans were killed by contract killers who posed as them to get to a target.]]
* EroticAsphyxiation: [[spoiler:Christine convinces Frederick to try it, then kicks his feet out from under him in a desperate hope that his death will lead to him going home.]]
* TheFundamentalist: Aside from the Shermans, Frederick's mother is convinced her son's Tourette's is DemonicPossession.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mrs. Ramsay comes back to the school to pick up her son, not wanting the killer to kill him as she hired him to. Unfortunately, he's already done so.]]
* HollywoodTourettes: Frederick has an especially severe case, having compulsive swearing to the point that he can barely complete a sentence, extreme twitching and trouble breathing.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Jacob is regularly tormented by ghosts repeating traumatic events in their lives; others interpret it as severe night terrors.
* KarmaHoudini: The majority of the kids' parents get away with sending them to an abusive boarding school [[spoiler:that is secretly them hiring the headmaster to kill them.]]
* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:The killer is never given a name beyond his alias of "Dr. Daniel Sherman."]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The entire victim pool are being pursued because their parents hired the killer to kill them.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are spirits reliving traumatic events over and over again. Only some people can see them, usually in their dreams.
* ThePlace
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Christine is one of the more proactive characters in solving the school's mysteries, but she also constantly calls people retards. This is part of the DeliberateValuesDissonance of the film being set in TheNineties.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While it doesn't come up more than once, the killer does mention some anti-Semitic beliefs he holds.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:The killer has been a hitman since his teens, and loves his job.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Jacob poisons his stepfather for trying to have him killed at the end of the film.]]
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: [[spoiler:The killer's real target is Jacob, he kills everybody else for the sake of a cover-up.]]
* SexSlave: One of the women at Jacob's grandmother's funeral tells him about the time a Nazi soldier forced her to be his slave or he'd take her and all her friends to the camps.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Jacob's grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, and one Nazi made one of her friends into his sex slave under threat of sending them to the camps.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jacob spends an afternoon dancing around in his grandmother's cocktail dress.
* WickedStepfather: [[spoiler:The killer was hired by Jacob's stepfather to kill him.]]
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