Continuing my October horrorfest I watched...
Detention
Hmm, I don't know what to think about this one, it's kind of a
horror slash teen movie slash time travelling sci-fi slash knowing meta-pisstake. It easily has the worst opening 15 mins of any film I've watched recently, I almost turned it off, but I persevered because I had an exact time slot before
This Is England started and I'd already wasted 15 minutes of it
Anyway, it's not as bad as the opening would have you believe, it in fact had some moments of sheer genius. In particular a moment so meta
the cast of the film watched a movie which in turn watched a movie which in turn watched a movie - it's better than I'm describing it!!
So I rated it 2.5 in Letterboxd immediately after watching it, i enjoyed some bits of the movie, hated others and the bigger picture is perhaps it tries to be too clever by cramming everything in, a bit of stylistic editing could work wonders on this one... I get the feeling it might fare a better score on a re-watch?!