Halloween horror marathon: Detention

poster-detentionDetention is so meta, it hurts. It makes any entry in the Scream franchise look positively staid by comparison.

For instance, at one point, you have the cast of the film watching a torrented bootleg of a soon-to-be-released movie, because people in their school are being killed in the same manner as the upcoming film. In the film they watch, the characters bootleg a copy of the film by which they’re getting killed.

Add in time travel, body swaps, and … fuck. I don’t even think I quite remember how the ending went. Frankly, I’m not certain it even makes much of a difference. Detention is one of those movies that — much like Scott Pilgrim, a film with which it shares a certain amount of hyper-awareness — absolutely captivates while you’re watching it, and bears an absurd number of repeated viewings.
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