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Detention

5.1

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Original title

Detention

Year

2011

Running time

93 min.

Country

United States

Director

Joseph Kahn

Screenwriter

Mark Palermo, Joseph Kahn

Cast

Music

Brain Mantia, Melissa Reese

Cinematography

Christopher Probst

Producer

Detention Films

Genre

Comedy. Horror. Sci-Fi | Horror Comedy. Black Comedy. Teen Comedy. Satire. Slasher. Parody. Time Travel. Schools & University. Gore. 1990s

Synopsis

An apocalyptic fantasy, horror, science fiction, action-thriller, body swapping, time-traveling teen romantic comedy starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Shanley Caswell. Detention follows the local students of Grizzly Lake as they survive their final year of high school. Bringing even more angst to student life, a slasher killer has chosen their high school as his new home of slaughter. It becomes a race against time to stop the killer, which will in turn save the world - if only they can get out of detention.

Critics' reviews

"Like Heathers reimagined by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, then reprocessed for consumption by the Twitter generation, Joseph Kahn's Detention moves at an absurd pace and dares anyone above 25"

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"What starts as a bracing rush quickly devolves into a deadening assault of stimuli."

Andrew Barker: Variety
"No one can be happier about 'The Hunger Games' success than writer-director Joseph Kahn, who was smart enough to cast Josh 'Peeta' Hutcherson (...) And that’s a good thing for everyone, since it means more people are likely to discover this amusingly irreverent indie comedy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News
"'Detention' has a frenetic visual style that's fun and appealing in a lot of ways, but there are way too many elements fighting for attention."

Connie Ogle: Miami Herald
"A bright, witty new genre mash-up."

Slant
"It's one of the most obnoxious movies ever made."

Nick Pinkerton: Village Voice
"A future cult classic (...) You admire the movie for refusing to ever, ever slow down, but you also wonder what might have happened had Kahn dared to settle, even just a bit"

Bilge Ebiri: Vulture
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Detention

2011

Joseph Kahn

5.1

(2,197)