Detention
Movie2012·US·1h 33min

Detention

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Premiere
6
Apr2012
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Budget$10M
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Detention (2012) is a horror-comedy-sci-fi hybrid directed by Joseph Kahn that you can watch online on iFILM. Shanley Caswell plays Riley, a high-school outcast who hates her school, is invisible to her crush Clapton Davis — played by Josh Hutcherson — and opens the film by deciding to end it all. A masked killer named Cinderhella shows up and derails her plan before she can execute it.

From there the film refuses to stay in one genre for more than ten minutes. A slasher plot runs alongside time travel, body-swapping, and a student carrying a secret that belongs in a different movie entirely. Spencer Locke and Dane Cook round out the cast as the film accelerates into deliberate, cheerful chaos.

Kahn cut Detention like a music video — fast, loud, packed with 90s and 2000s pop-culture debris. It is not interested in building tension the conventional way. The joke is the genre itself, and Kahn commits to it without flinching. If you're willing to let go of plot logic early, it works. Stream Detention (2012) online on iFILM.

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