Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Gingle WangFang Ray Shin
- Jing-Hua TsengWei Chong-Ting
- Fu Meng-PoChang Ming-Hui
- Cecilia ChoiYin Tsui-Han
- Hung Chang ChuInspector Bai
- Ching-ting HsiaFang Ray Shin's father
- Pen-yu ChangFang Ray Shin's mother
- Yun Chung-YuehOld Wei Chong-Ting
- Chin-Yu PanSheng
- Kuan-Yi LiWen-Xiong
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
While a lot of Detention is steeped in anguish and anxiety, the terror induced by those emotions becomes the pathway back into the light. - 70
Los Angeles Times
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. - 70
Variety
The absorbing and entertaining Detention works well enough as a primer on a traumatic period of history, and as a story of semi-supernatural salvation for sins past, that it earns its surprisingly moving final moments, and even its heavily on-the-nose exhortation to modern-day Taiwan to remember and honor its ghosts. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Making his directorial debut, Hsu clearly has an eye for striking imagery, and Detention is filled with moments of shuddering, abstract beauty. But his ghost story never quite materializes from its uncanny ether.
