School Spirit

That pretty much sums it up. It's entertaining enough but predictable. There are worse entries in this series.

Looking for a good movie...even a decent movie is hard to find these days. SO much crap to sort from. The trailers you watch and see the immediate cheese right away...ugh! But this trailer was worthy of the watch. No cheese...decent acting and I liked it right away and selected it for my wife's and I to watch on movie night. A group of kids are selected to earn detention first week of the year and they are locked in by their vice-principal. Soon after, the kids start telling stories of the school spirit that makes the bad kids of the school vanish. Kids soon start to go missing and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who the "School spirit" is. Kinda obvious, but I'll leave you to watch the movie and decide for yourself. It's a really good watch...A whodunit if you will. I love those. It's really worth the watch, guys. Peace.

Unfortunately this movie won't be winning any awards anytime soon. It's also not scary at all so it should not be listed as a horror movie. The school is haunted by a malevolent evil spirit who haunts "bad kids", the look of this evil spirit is almost laughable along with the ridiculous death scenes. I'm Being generous with my scoring because I've seen worse movies however the production, set and scenery looked good so it didn't have that D list horror level going on and to me the writing of the actors was actually very well done. It's puzzling, the movie did a great job fleshing out the characters and I think they did a great job, especially the Vice Principal character so I'm confused as to how they managed to write such a weak and lazy plot altogether. The acting and the polished look on screen saves this from being in no man's land for me however I wouldn't watch it again.

The film's title is a metaphor and the story is pretty straight forward l. The characters aren't that likable, but the young victims and their obvious internal battles outside of the setting make them kind of likable. The blood and gore is a hit or miss. Not too much, but not too little. Some of the kills seem censored or happened too fast to notice and not worth the R-rating it was given. The best thing about the film is that they truly act like teenagers and wander off from the crew only to get slaughtered; but they're not as curious until the obvious shows. Not much is revealed until the very end. There's a slap on your face at the closing of the film. It's unique and definitely something I would do if I were a high school graduate. It's a great film for teens preferably 16-19 and young adults who just want time to pass while watching a pretty decent film-a-sode Hope you enjoy.

Right away it's unbelievably obvious that they couldn't get extras to make it seem like a real school-year; so they wrote in the scapegoat of "weekend detention". Although that doesn't explain away the construction fences that you can see in the beginning, clear indication that they got in during Summer renovations. Not a bad idea to secure locations, just get the fences out of your shots.

All the characters are 1-dimensional, with each of them representing a cliche clique in schools. They try to come together, but it seems forced and superficial. You really don't care about any of them, because the characters are either unlikable, or the 'nice ones' never seem like they're really in danger. The one and only faculty member isn't any less of a stereotype.

At one point the director opted to skip the music and let the terror of the haunting try to hold suspense on it's own. It failed. Hard.

At this point Blumhouse/Into the Dark is just giving us monthly classes on how NOT to make horror movies. Get some friends drinking and have a laugh at the incongruities of these, and just enjoy yourselves :)