Detention

Year: 2012

Runtime: 93 min

Language: Chinese

Director: Joseph Kahn

HorrorComedy

During 1962 Taiwan, a period marked by political repression, students are confined to Tsuihua Secondary School for a night of detention. What begins as a disciplinary measure quickly descends into a terrifying ordeal when a secret literary club is shut down. A student named Fang finds herself caught in a surreal nightmare, exploring the school's unsettling environment and confronting grotesque creatures while desperately searching for her missing professor and uncovering the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of fear and authoritarian control.

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Grizzly Lake High, Grizzly Lake

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