Director: Jeremy Kasten
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Assigned to a summer detention class, a group of outcast students cleaning up after hours begins to suspect something is following them for a past trauma committed at the school involving a group of armed masked shooters and must try to get out of the school alive before those incidents threaten to consume the group.
Review:
This was a somewhat problematic entry. Among the few positives to be had here is the film’s highly enjoyable brutality dished out the few times we see the gang cut loose and get crazy on their victims. The bluntness and the absolutely unnerving manner in which they play with their victims and begin shooting up the school in the flashback is a fantastic way to get some positives going as there’s an enjoyable aspect to the brutality and bloodshed offered in cold, stark fashion with the way they mow victims down or begin slashing at them. However, outside of the creepy masks they wear, that’s all this has going for it.
This one does have some issues with it. Among the biggest problems is the complete and total lack of any kind of explanation for anything. The idea of the kids staying after hours at the school is never discussion as we don’t get any idea what their infraction was that sent them there or why no adult is keeping an eye on them as they seem to be there as punishment. However, with no teacher keeping an eye on them to ensure they complete it or backstory about what their history is since we’re just dropped into this without much info about them making it incredibly difficult to care about them bickering and fighting at the very beginning.
That carries over into the biker gang terrorizing the school, as we get absolutely nothing about them at all. They seem to show up to the school randomly without any kind of purpose or plan as to what’s going on, go out of their way to avoid the group until it comes time to attack them and are acting like such spastic weirdoes it seems unlikely they’d be able to accomplish anything given their erratic outbursts and barely any information given about what they’re attempting. Even that little bit of information doesn’t amount to much as it gets muddled through the tactics they’re trying to accomplish it with.
The other problem with this one is the seemingly disjointed plotline that doesn’t make any kind of sense whatsoever. The main idea of this one makes no sense with the flashbacks to the rampage going concurrently with their real-life struggles which is incredibly convoluted and confusing, especially once it brings in a quasi-supernatural feel that has no business being in the storyline. It changes what’s going on and do so for no reason, turning this into a jumbled, confusing mess and completes the uninterest generated by the rest of the film. This is the biggest drawback to this one and effectively ruins what could’ve been with this one.
Overview: */5
Filled with numerous flaws and a nearly indifferent attitude to its characters and storytelling, there’s very little to like here beyond a few elements that pop up at scattered moments throughout this one. Really only give this a look if you’re a fan of these kinds of brutal, thrilling pieces but for those who are turned off by the flaws or not into this kind of style, it’s not worth much and is better off skipped.
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