Detention
“Cancel Your Future”
Premium Crap. CrapScore 71, rated by 1 admin.
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A high-school slasher story gets distracted by time travel, pop culture and several competing genres. Joseph Kahn's comedy moves as though someone has taped down the fast-forward button. Its frantic references can be exhausting, but the teen romance gives the chaos a surprisingly warm centre.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6/10
- Plot
- 9.5/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 8/10
- Rewatchability
- 8.5/10
“Detention has been rescheduled across several timelines.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 71
Synopsis and movie facts
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
- Released
- 2012
- Directed by
- Joseph Kahn
- Running time
- 93 min
Starring
- Shanley Caswell as Riley Jones
- Josh Hutcherson as Clapton Davis
- Spencer Locke as Ione Foster
- Dane Cook as Principal Karl Verge
- A.D. Johnson as Sander Sanderson
- Walter Perez as Elliot Fink
- Erica Shaffer as Sloan Foster
- Yves Bright as Mr. Kendall
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Detention (2012), directed by Joseph Kahn. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · slantmagazine.com
Slant enthusiastically praises the witty genre mixture, pop-cultural invention and affection for its teenage characters, while noting that it is not especially gory. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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