*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by American World Pictures.
Director: James D. R. Hickox.
Writers: James D. R. Hickox, Stephen Johnston, Michael Muscal, and John Stienfield.
So, here is another entry for worst horror film for 2011 with Detention. This film stars the late David Carradine and Thomas Calabro as two faculty staff of a haunted school. Released on DVD May 17th through American World Pictures, Detention feels just like those days spent after school in a stale classroom, staring at the clock. Full of poor music selections, soulless writing and a plot that takes too long to get there, Detention easily gets nominated to 28Dla's worst horror films for this year (2011). Sorry Carradine, but this reviewer is still a fan.
Detention plays out like a bad offering of Rumpelstiltskin. Instead of offering up the first born right away, several children are hunted down by a vengeful...
Director: James D. R. Hickox.
Writers: James D. R. Hickox, Stephen Johnston, Michael Muscal, and John Stienfield.
So, here is another entry for worst horror film for 2011 with Detention. This film stars the late David Carradine and Thomas Calabro as two faculty staff of a haunted school. Released on DVD May 17th through American World Pictures, Detention feels just like those days spent after school in a stale classroom, staring at the clock. Full of poor music selections, soulless writing and a plot that takes too long to get there, Detention easily gets nominated to 28Dla's worst horror films for this year (2011). Sorry Carradine, but this reviewer is still a fan.
Detention plays out like a bad offering of Rumpelstiltskin. Instead of offering up the first born right away, several children are hunted down by a vengeful...
- 7/8/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Starring the late great David Carradine in one of his last film roles as "Principle Hoskins", Dentention is a new haunted school indie from Children of the Corn III director, James Hickox and writers Stephen L. Johnston (The Hillside Strangler), John Stienfield and Michael Muscal.
Synopsis:
A group of high school students are sent to detention for unexplained reasons.
There, the teenagers find themselves abandoned and locked in their classroom after their detention teacher leaves and then mysteriously disappears.
With night slowly approaching, a thunder storm builds outside. The heavy rain and lightening causes a massive power failure throwing the school in total darkness. Strange, haunting images of ghosts begin to appear in the school. The kids manage to break out of the classroom only to find that the the building has taken on a life of it's own, keeping them trapped inside.
The film also stars Thomas Calabro, Alexa Jago,...
Synopsis:
A group of high school students are sent to detention for unexplained reasons.
There, the teenagers find themselves abandoned and locked in their classroom after their detention teacher leaves and then mysteriously disappears.
With night slowly approaching, a thunder storm builds outside. The heavy rain and lightening causes a massive power failure throwing the school in total darkness. Strange, haunting images of ghosts begin to appear in the school. The kids manage to break out of the classroom only to find that the the building has taken on a life of it's own, keeping them trapped inside.
The film also stars Thomas Calabro, Alexa Jago,...
- 10/12/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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