Plot Summary:This comedy/horror movie centers about a group of teens who go to Grizzly Lake High School. When one of their classmates is killed by someone dressed up as 'Cinderhella' (a character from a popular horror movie), they all fall under suspicion, but when they all get detention...
If a movie was able to do several lines of cocaine before you hit play, Joseph Kahn's Detention would be that movie. It's wild, kinetic and all over the place in the best possible way. Full Review| Original Score: 5/5 |Apr 13, 2022 ...
Detention is a movie that is both funny and scary. The film never takes itself too seriously and is full of self-aware humor and clever references. The horror elements are well-executed, and there are plenty of jump scares and tense moments to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Ov...
"It was barbaric, like something out of a horror movie." Soon after she began work, a girl called Gibbs a name, she says, "and I was told that if I couldn't beat her, I might as well hang my badge on the nail at the door when I went home that night." Torture behind bars:...
Movie-Makers Deserve Detention!Read the full-text online article and more details about "Movie-Makers Deserve Detention!" - Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 17, 2011Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
for example having a character look down at screen text and react to the inevitable outcome. Kahn ingeniously pokes enough fun at his own movie as a smack to the audience’s head, almost as to say “Hey, this is supposed to be fun and not serious! Just embrace it!” I know I perke...
It leaves one to wonder, why does the cartoon succeed where the movie failed?As a long time Green Lantern fan, I had high hopes for the movie and went in hoping for the best. My... See full article at Obsessed with Film 11/17/2011 by Trevor Gentry-Birnbaum Obsessed with Film The ...
“Dirty Wars”. The movie will begin at 2 and the speaking program around 3:45. NOTE The speaking portion of the event is FREE. You can come to the discussion without going to the movie. BONUS Rick Rawley, the director of “Dirty Wars” will be coming to CT and will also speak at...
DETENTIONis being sold as tongue-in-cheek horror, a laSCREAM. It actually is closer to full-blown parody, with a multitude of filmic targets from the Eighties and Nineties. It is unclear who exactly this is made for, because the people who grew up with the movies referenced here have now...
Kahn’s “Detention” script, by the way, overtly sneers at “Scream” and even says love interest Clapton with cheerleader Ione “makes as much sense as that stupid movie ‘Torque’”. (“Torque” in 2004 was Kahn’s debut feature film.) “Detention” certainly lacks focus...