Will Patton is the headmaster, Samantha Mathis one of the more intense “teachers” in this horror offering, slated for the cinema’s late August dumping ground (the weekend of abandoned movies).

The curious thing about this trailer is the honor it bestows on “acclaimed” director Boaz Yakin, whose career path peaked with “Remember the Titans” and spiraled downward after the Brittany Murphy “comedy” “Uptown Girls” into maudlin war dog pictures (“Max”) and now this.