2019 · horror · thriller · historical
Detention
Directed by John Hsu1h 42m2019
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.
Our read: Detention (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · historical entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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“You want Taiwanese supernatural horror rooted in White Terror history and school ghosts.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if Mandarin subtitles, political trauma, or teen horror in a cursed school will haunt you.
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