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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
Fu Meng-Po
Zhang Ming-Hui
Tseng Jing-Hua
Wei Zhong-Ting
Cecilia Choi
Yin Cui-Han
Chu Hung-Chang
Instructor Bai
Liu Yue-Ti
Mr. Kao
Chang Pen-Yu
Fang's Mother
Joseph Hsia
Fang's Father
Yun Chung-Yueh
Old Wei Zhong-Ting
Pan Chin-Yu
Sheng
Li Kuan-Yi
Wen-Xiong
Moon Lee
Zhou Xin
Liu Yu-Ren
Chang
Chen Biau-Li
Mao
Ryan Hsu
The Military Police In The Jail
Chang Tzu-Kang
The Military Police In The Jail
Li Jing
Ghost of Fang
Li Shu-Ming
Ghost Messenger
Wang Ko-Yuan
Huang You-Xin
Hsiao Zheng-Wei
Colleague of Fang's Father / Male Police Broadcasting (voice) / Military Policemen (voice)
Gama Tsou
Military Police
Ken Lin
Military Police
Hsu Yu-Chieh
Chang (voice) / Huang You-Xin (voice)
Chu Ting-Yi
Military Police (voice) / School Broadcasting (voice)
Chung Chi
Student (voice) / School Teacher (voice)
Lee Lieh
Female Police Broadcasting (voice)
Huang Chung-Chieh
School Teacher (voice)
Wei Bao-Chin
Old Wei Zhong-Ting (voice)
Tang Shiang-Chu
Old Wei Zhong-Ting (voice)
John Hsu
Director / Writer
Chien Shih-Keng
Writer
Lyra Fu
Writer
Aileen Li
Producer
Detention Ratings & Reviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
ComingSoon.net
Grant Hermanns
Adds up to a relatively enjoyable adaptation still miles above most other entries in the genre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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