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Detention
Directed by
John Hsu
TV-MA
2019
1h 42m
Horror
,
Mystery
,
and more
6.6
86%
84%
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In 1962 Taiwan, student Fang and teacher Mr. Chang fall in love amidst the restrictive White Terror period banning sensitive books. Despite this, Mr. Chang secretly organizes a banned book study group with fellow teacher and student.
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Cast of Detention
Gingle Wang
Fang Ray-Shin
Hung Chang Chu
Instructor Bai
Chin-Yu Pan
Sheng
Tseng Jing-hua
Wei Zhong-Ting
Li Kuan-yi
Wen-Xiong
Moon Lee
Zhou Xin
Cecilia Choi
Yin Cui-Han
Yu-Ren Liu
Chang
Chen Biau-Li
Mao
Ryan Hsu
The Military Police In The Jail
Chang Tzu-Kang
The Military Police In The Jail
Fu Meng-po
Zhang Ming-Hui
Li Jing
Ghost of Fang
Liu Yue-ti
Mr. Kao
Li Shu-Ming
Ghost Messenger
Wang Ko-Yuan
Huang You-Xin
Pen-yu Chang
Fang's Mother
Joseph Hsia
Fang's Father
Hsiao Zheng-Wei
Colleague of Fang's Father
Gama Tsou
Military Police
Ken Lin
Military Police
Yun Chung-Yueh
Old Wei Zhong-Ting
Detention Ratings & Reviews
Cultured Vultures
Grady Bolding
Detention comes with good characters and a decent story about an overlooked period in history, but it might fall flat to viewers with no knowledge of the setting or the video game.
ComingSoon.net
Grant Hermanns
Adds up to a relatively enjoyable adaptation still miles above most other entries in the genre.
Nerdist
Rosie Knight
At its best, Detention feels like a great throwback to the Tartan era of extreme Asian horror imports from the '00s. When it really shines it feels like an exciting reinvention of iconic ghost stories that came before.
Strange Harbors
Jeffrey Zhang
Detention delivers a stirring history lesson and an incisive commentary on the evils of authoritarianism, but its fractured and ride-the-rails ghost story does it no favors
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The horror of Detention resonates.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Cinematographer Li Hsien-chou deserves praise for the immersive way that he has recreated the atmosphere of the game, working with sparsely decorated sets.
AwardsWatch
Kevin L. Lee
Interestingly enough, it is the film's very dedication in exploring character backstories and motivations that sets it apart from the original source material, that is Detention works better as a melodrama than as a horror movie.
RogerEbert.com
Isaac Feldberg
For all the game's attention to the ways fear can become rooted in personal and collective psyches, this adaptation feels curiously depersonalized.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
In gaming terms, this movie's characters find themselves on a screen where every move leads to a bottomless pit. The nightmare they're in is as existential as it is visceral.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Forgiveness and remembrance are intertwined in this powerful story. An apt heir to [Guillermo] del Toro at his most analytical, it's a stirring political fable dressed in the ghoulish weaves of a creepy monster flick.
DarkSkyLady Reviews
DarkSkyLady
The film is gripping, a nightmare to watch-literally almost the entire movie is a nightmare-with moving acting, directing and a powerful story.
Film Daze
Katie Duggan
This game adaptation may be no fun for the characters forced to face each additional horror, but it offers viewers a supernatural thrill facing off against the most menacing ghosts of history.
Wicked Horror
Joey Keogh
Where most video-game adaptations lean too heavily on the source material, Detention strays too far away, opting for a moody, non-captivating relationship drama over any sustained scares.
MiamiArtZine
Rubén Rosario
...the movie barely gets off the ground, because even the most casual horror fan can tell exactly what is happening here within the first 20 minutes, and Hsu's nonlinear narrative takes an eternity to arrive at a big reveal...
Shuffle Online
Ricardo Gallegos
A historically relevant tale conveying a message of freedom and redemption.
Film Inquiry
Clement Tyler Obropta
The narrative of Detention is nearly nonexistent. And in the rare instances that the story took center stage, I had no idea what to make of it.
Cinema76
Dan Scully
A novel and compelling way to tell the tale, serving to show the trickle-down effects of institutional trauma.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
Politically-charged psychological horror with a stunning finale that plays like a tribute to the resistors and rebellious ones throughout history.
Rue Morgue Magazine
Michael Gingold
The fact that this is ultimately a human story first and a horror story second in no way diminishes its impact in the latter area.
Silver Screen Riot
Matt Oakes
With a plot that jumps around different time periods as well as through character's actual lives and their subconscious, 'Detention' is often an unintentionally confusing mess.
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