GL84 Stuck in a high school detention class during a torrential rain-storm, a group of friends find themselves subjected to a series of ghostly visits and incidents in an attempt to seek retribution for a past incident involving their parents and try to get out before they're all killed off.This one turned out to be a pretty nice haunted-school style ghost film. What works best here is that it's filled with a ton of clichés but never really manages to make them noticeable until pretty late in the film. That the school location is actually pretty creepy and manages to hold a place of suspense is a bright spot here, as it comes off as a perfect spot for ghostly activity and makes for some good times with it stalking the group throughout the grounds. There are some problems, though, in that the reason for possession in most cases goes unexplained when a twist late in the film makes it totally worthless as well as taking way too long in it's set-ups when they tease something only to not deliver as well as not come through on the kill, making some scenes seem to last forever yet the film is really quite brief. Overall, though, it's really not that bad.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Wizard-8 "Detention" has been touted as one of the last movies David Carradine appeared in. However, fans of Carradine (that is, if there are any after appearing in a long unbroken string of awful movies prior to this one) should know that he only has about three brief scenes in the entire movies, which don't look like they took long for the director to film. And while his appearance is brief, he manages to be incredibly awful in his role. In fact, the whole movie is awful. It's wretchedly photographed and lit, with ugly and dark colors appearing throughout. The characters are uniformly written to be no more than clichés, and obnoxious clichés to boot. They are so dumb, they don't even think of going to the school's emergency exits to escape! And the special effects mostly consist of cheap CGI that looks like it was made by a high school student on his home computer. I would bet that the people who worked in front of and behind the camera did not subsequently list this movie on their resumes.

Claudio Carvalho In the 70's, the teenager Gabriel is bullied by his high school mates that play a prank and lock him in an incinerator. There is a storm and a thunder burns him to death.In the present days, seven high school students are punished with detention after the class and they are locked by the Coach Littick (Thomas Calabro) in a classroom. Mr. Littick vanishes and they are haunted by ghosts in the corridor a stormy afternoon. Three of them manage to escape and meet the new history teacher Ms. Cipher (Alexa Jago) in the corridor. She calls the Sheriff that tells that they are trapped in the area and must wait for help. They go to the library with Ms. Ciper but sooner they are hunted down by the ghost of Gabriel and learn that their parents were the responsible for the fate of Gabriel. "Detention" is a annoying slasher, with poor special effects and a story full of clichés. There is an excessive use of sound expecting to make the viewer scary but that only irritates. In the end, I regret that I did not see the soccer game on television instead. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Detenção" ("Detention")

luvmycat What a cheap-looking, stupid film. I thought it was made in the late 70s/early 80s, from the look of it, and I don't mean it as a compliment. I was surprised and disgusted finding out afterwards that this film was made in 2008 for 2 Mio and couldn't come up with anything better. They saved enough money on the actors and effects, so where has all the dough gone? D. Carradine, what hast thou done? I can't believe I thought after watching this "jeeez, Birdemic was more entertaining". That says everything.Detention doesn't come near to be honored with the word "trash", nor is it "so bad it's good". It's not even a homage to the 70s/80s teen slashers.Sorry I can't be bothered to detail the content. I'm too angry. And my fellow reviewers have already done a good job on this.Detention bored me to tears but also annoyed me. Stupidity throughout - script, dialog, everything. I expect characters in these kind of flicks to be acting "stupid" (you know, the usual in these type of films - like saying hello who's there in a dark lonely room, opening a door you know better you shouldn't, etc.) but not so retarded. I actually got up inbetween to wash the dishes while watching so my life time wasn't wasted completely.I'm happy it was a cheap rental. I only made it till the end so I could live to tell. If you want to get rid of a "friend", recommend him/her this film. Go and watch Dance of the Dead, which also covers the cliché teens (okay, they're slashed by Zombies and not a ghost). That film is silly, but funny and dimensions better in so many ways than Detention.