Reviewed by Michael Juvinall, MoreHorror.com
Detention (2011) Movie Review
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Spencer Locke, Brooke Haven, and Shanley Caswell
Directed by: Joseph Kahn
Written by: Joseph Kahn (written by) and Mark Palermo (written by)
Detention is a rather unique film, it features a myriad of genres combined, comedy, slasher film, teen drama, and sci-fi are all thrown into the mix. Director Joseph Kahn has only made one other feature film, 2004’s Torque and a handful of music videos which is surprising because Kahn definitely has a visual style that’s all his own, which is on full display here, part of the reason why Detention is so interesting to watch. Detention is chock full of pop culture references, many to other films, so many in fact, I couldn’t count them all. This film is so complex that I had to watch it twice to catch everything that...
Detention (2011) Movie Review
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Spencer Locke, Brooke Haven, and Shanley Caswell
Directed by: Joseph Kahn
Written by: Joseph Kahn (written by) and Mark Palermo (written by)
Detention is a rather unique film, it features a myriad of genres combined, comedy, slasher film, teen drama, and sci-fi are all thrown into the mix. Director Joseph Kahn has only made one other feature film, 2004’s Torque and a handful of music videos which is surprising because Kahn definitely has a visual style that’s all his own, which is on full display here, part of the reason why Detention is so interesting to watch. Detention is chock full of pop culture references, many to other films, so many in fact, I couldn’t count them all. This film is so complex that I had to watch it twice to catch everything that...
- 8/2/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Popular girl Taylor Fisch (Alison Woods) is brutally murdered by horror film character Cinderhella who continues on a murderous rampage throughout the high school. Amid rampant “post-ironic” allusions to horror films of the last few decades—including Scream and Saw—and a plethora of 90s pop culture references, suicidal Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell) and hipster Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson—who is also an executive producer of the film) find themselves embroiled in an attempt to unmask the killer and travel through time to prevent a bomb explosion from destroying the world.
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- 8/1/2012
- by John Keith
- JustPressPlay.net
Directed by Joseph Kahn
Featuring Shanley Caswell, Josh Hutcherson, Spencer Locke, Dane Cook
To put it bluntly, Detention is a 1980s and early 90s fanboy/girl's pop culture wet dream.
Just about every geeky reference both (mainstream and obscure) is riffed upon. The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, Freaky Friday, Scream — its all here. Director Joseph Kahn has taken every teenage film made in the past 30 years and filled it with cinematic crack cocaine, and then turned it up to 11.
After a wonderful plot misdirect in the beginning, the film settles on the main character, Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell), a high school misfit that is has some suicidal tendencies. She is in love with her platonic friend Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson) who is in turn hot for the 1990's obsessed cheerleader Ione Foster (Spencer Locke). While this is all going on a killer named Cinderhella is on the loose killing off the student body.
Featuring Shanley Caswell, Josh Hutcherson, Spencer Locke, Dane Cook
To put it bluntly, Detention is a 1980s and early 90s fanboy/girl's pop culture wet dream.
Just about every geeky reference both (mainstream and obscure) is riffed upon. The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, Freaky Friday, Scream — its all here. Director Joseph Kahn has taken every teenage film made in the past 30 years and filled it with cinematic crack cocaine, and then turned it up to 11.
After a wonderful plot misdirect in the beginning, the film settles on the main character, Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell), a high school misfit that is has some suicidal tendencies. She is in love with her platonic friend Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson) who is in turn hot for the 1990's obsessed cheerleader Ione Foster (Spencer Locke). While this is all going on a killer named Cinderhella is on the loose killing off the student body.
- 7/19/2012
- by Kelly Michael Stewart
- Planet Fury
Detention
Directed by Joseph Kahn
Written by Joseph Kahn and Mark Palermo
USA, 2011
Remember that scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex, constrained and with eyes pried open, is forced to watch nasty bits of ultra-violence underscored by Ludwig van’s 9th symphony 4th movement?
Well, replace ultra-violence with ultra-style and Beethoven with some Backstreet Boys, and you have Joseph Kahn’s horror comedy, Detention.
Although nowhere near as tortuous with the experience compared, Detention does subject the viewer to a flourish of nonstop visual stimulus and candy-coloured kinetic energy. Glossy and forever frenetic, this is an experience that, like a rollercoaster, may induce either extreme vertigo or extreme motion sickness. Or maybe even both.
The film stars Shanley Caswell as Riley Jones, a social misfit and high school pariah. Although she’s preoccupied with genocide, poverty and political corruption (but not prom), she also worries about the newly formed...
Directed by Joseph Kahn
Written by Joseph Kahn and Mark Palermo
USA, 2011
Remember that scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex, constrained and with eyes pried open, is forced to watch nasty bits of ultra-violence underscored by Ludwig van’s 9th symphony 4th movement?
Well, replace ultra-violence with ultra-style and Beethoven with some Backstreet Boys, and you have Joseph Kahn’s horror comedy, Detention.
Although nowhere near as tortuous with the experience compared, Detention does subject the viewer to a flourish of nonstop visual stimulus and candy-coloured kinetic energy. Glossy and forever frenetic, this is an experience that, like a rollercoaster, may induce either extreme vertigo or extreme motion sickness. Or maybe even both.
The film stars Shanley Caswell as Riley Jones, a social misfit and high school pariah. Although she’s preoccupied with genocide, poverty and political corruption (but not prom), she also worries about the newly formed...
- 7/12/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
For fans of all films macabre, The Toronto After Dark Film Festival is the venue for you. But for those that can’t wait until October for nine nights of horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies running from the 18th to the 26th, the good people behind Tadff have answered your counter intuitive prayers. For two nights only, and on biweekly Wednesdays, Toronto After Dark will be bringing four fantastic films fresh off the festival circuit and onto the silver screens at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (located at 506 Bloor Street West on Bathurst). Fraught will thrills, chills and plenty of kills, The Toronto After Dark Film Festival Summer Screenings is compulsory viewing material for devout students and fans of dark filmmaking.
Screenings include:
Wednesday June 27th 2012
Juan of the Dead 7:00 Pm
Cuba’s first feature film to showcase the undead, Juan of the Dead may just be an instant zombie flick classic.
Screenings include:
Wednesday June 27th 2012
Juan of the Dead 7:00 Pm
Cuba’s first feature film to showcase the undead, Juan of the Dead may just be an instant zombie flick classic.
- 6/26/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Detention
Directed by: Joseph Kahn
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Dane Cook
Running Time: 1 hr 29 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: After a horror movie-inspired serial killer slashes someone on their campus, a group of suspect high school seniors (Hutcherson, Caswell) are put into detention during prom night.
Who’S It For?: Detention is the new Sermon on the Mount/Gettysburg Address/Kanye West twitter feed for the high schooler frustrated by everyone’s desire to label or be labeled, or to wear the coolest clothes without any sense of honest expression. To say this is for the “outsider” is too general; this is for the social outsider who doesn’t care about fitting in. As for those who made it out of high school, there is still much to enjoy with Detention as well. If you like highly involving unique film experiences that push their cinematic bounds,...
Directed by: Joseph Kahn
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Dane Cook
Running Time: 1 hr 29 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: After a horror movie-inspired serial killer slashes someone on their campus, a group of suspect high school seniors (Hutcherson, Caswell) are put into detention during prom night.
Who’S It For?: Detention is the new Sermon on the Mount/Gettysburg Address/Kanye West twitter feed for the high schooler frustrated by everyone’s desire to label or be labeled, or to wear the coolest clothes without any sense of honest expression. To say this is for the “outsider” is too general; this is for the social outsider who doesn’t care about fitting in. As for those who made it out of high school, there is still much to enjoy with Detention as well. If you like highly involving unique film experiences that push their cinematic bounds,...
- 4/13/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
The film “Detention” is being billed as a “teen comedy-horror film” and even though that’s a lot to take in, “Detention” star Shanley Caswell said there’s even more than that. “It’s a multigenre film,” she said. “Sci-fi, time travel, body swapping, with comedy mixed in.” Caswell plays Riley Jones, a social outcast who eventually becomes one of the heroes of the film. “She’s not really sure of herself in the beginning, but later on in the film, we see her step up, saving the world,” said Caswell. Getting in character wasn’t hard for Caswell since Riley’s insecurity is something everyone has dealt with. “Everyone has gone through the stage of [ Read More ]...
- 4/4/2012
- by monique
- ShockYa
This review was originally written on June 6, 2011 from a screening at Siff. “Detention” opens in theaters this Friday. Is it time to start wistfully longing for the 1990s already? Since “Take Me Home Tonight”—which oddly enough I did enjoy—was pretty much the last nail in the 80s nostalgia coffin, it makes sense that things would start moving in that direction. That’s the definite impression that you get from “Detention”, Joseph Kahn’s first feature film since 2004’s “Torque”, though he’s stayed busy working music videos for high profile pop artists. The movie is a mash up of horror, time travel, and teenybopper comedy, and doesn’t so much have plot as a lot of excuses to reference earlier days of music, fashion, and popular culture. You’ve never seen so many nods to the Backstreet Boys. Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell) hates her life and wants to die.
- 4/4/2012
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Detention, the newest film by Torque director Joseph Kahn, is going to turn a lot of people off. While there is an overall story that does eventually pay off and make sense, there’s no denying that this feels like a mess, a hodge-podge of a bunch of interesting ideas put together when they probably shouldn’t have been. Part slasher movie, part science-fiction movie, part John Hughes teen comedy, it’s all presented with a heavy self-referential humor. While some of the jokes were obscenely unfunny and the movie felt like it was just trying to do too much at once, I still managed to enjoy Detention due to its originality and willingness to go balls out.
Detention follows high school outcast Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell) who is a snarky and typical angsty teen. She harbors a secret crush on Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson), the coolest kid in the...
Detention follows high school outcast Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell) who is a snarky and typical angsty teen. She harbors a secret crush on Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson), the coolest kid in the...
- 3/16/2011
- by Jonathan Sullivan
- The Film Stage
Laced with absurd asides, enormously self aware humor and arguably stuffed with a few more ideas and images than it's quite sure what to do with, Joseph Kahn's Detention is Donnie Darko for the Add set. A film that riffs equally on John Hughes and John Carpenter it intertwines the angsty, postmodern teen comedy with slasher and scifi elements and then ramps the speed of it all up to a dizzying pace. Call it what you will, but it's certainly never boring.Shanley Caswell stars as Riley Jones, high school outsider. Riley is a girl without a place in the high school social ladder. Or, at least, a girl without a cool place. Not attractive enough to be one of the cool girls. Not sporty...
- 3/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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