Joseph (Torque) Kahn’s Detention is a coked-out, genre-bent, hyperkinetic smashterpiece that destroys every teen movie concept in an ambitious blink-and-you’ll-miss-it / WHAT THE FUCK AM I WATCHING brain scraper. Omni-present hunkapalooza Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games’ Peeta) headlines the students of Grizzly Lake High as they race to outlast a vicious killer ripped from their local multiplex while making various stops for time-travel, BitTorrenting, body swapping, costume parties, and your not-so-typical teen romance. Visionary music video director Kahn (Brandy & Monica “The Boy is Mine”, Britney Spears “Toxic”) largely self-financed this ‘90s obsessed, fast paced alternate universe combination of pop culture mania and bizarre suburban landscape, only to have it abandoned by its distributor on 10 screens across the country.
“A mash-up of Weird Science and Heathers, madly infatuated with ’80s teen films and horror conventions, and paced just right for a generation that digests information 140 characters at a time.” – Drew McWeeny, HitFix
