Detention
A teenage outcast, her friend, a nerd, and other students band together to survive while serving detention while a copycat killer named after movie villain Cinderhella targets the high-school students.
12 March 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
30 June 1981, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
23 May 1978, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 March 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 May 1985, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
20 June 1978, Bamberg, Germany
3 April 1962, Lima, Ohio, USA
25 November 1979, Tempe, Arizona, USA
7 July 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 October 1979, New York City, New York, USA
8 December 1990
August 09, 2012
Detention is a hypnotic hipster acid trip - a brazenly irreverent jolt to the system that screams cult gem.July 31, 2012
...too weird and too off-the-wall to become anything more than a mildly amusing curiosity.July 26, 2012
I often fell in to the category of despising it but also kept dabbling in the area of admiration for being so unpredictable and original.September 04, 2012
It's hard not to admire the absolute commitment to a script that is very ambitious and totally bonkers in the plot department. And maybe its lack of focus is meant to reflect the scattered attention spans of its audience.April 13, 2012
Here's another sardonic look at the hell of the American high school, where countless American filmmakers believe our souls are locked no matter how long it's been since we graduated.January 16, 2013
Detention is unlike any teen slasher you've ever seen, or quite possibly will see. It's proof that fresh ideas and off the wall filmmaking are still a possibility in today's cinematic world.April 12, 2012
Exhausting before its first few minutes of whip-pans, smash cuts, coarsely self-referential jokes and on-screen text visuals is over...April 13, 2012
Tries way, way, way too hard. A directorial drum solo that quickly wears out its welcome.August 24, 2012
The Breakfast Club meets Scream in self-consciously quirky teen horror comedy mash-up Detention - with elements of Freaky Friday, Donnie Darko and a string of other movies thrown into the pot too.April 13, 2012
There will be young moviegoers who proclaim this genius, and more stodgy audience members who find it torturous. If you're not tweeting and texting a combined 50 times or more per day, you're probably in the latter camp.April 12, 2012
In this universe people seem composed of 1 percent water and 99 percent '90s references and genre expectations.April 26, 2012
Neither good enough to impress as a meta mashup of horror and comedy, nor bad enough to hoot and throw popcorn at, it slides into a gray area of unfocused ideas and unrealized potential.