Detention
In so much as this film was marketed at all it was spruced as a Scream for this new decade; see a plot synopsis and it will say something about a serial-killer stalking students in the guise of a slasher icon. Yes, there are some scenes that follow a story such as that, but there are just as many if not more that don’t; scenes that seem more akin to Scary Movie in terms of their absurdest tone and yet these scenes are treated quite seriously at the same time. So no, it doesn’t really make much sense to say that this film is analogous to Scream -it’s more than that in so many ways and less than it in a vital one – but then I’m not really sure how else I would describe it in a single sentence because not since I first saw The Fountain have I been so utterly befuddled by a film.
