10 Slasher Movies That Broke All The Rules

Not unlike Dude Bro Party Massacre III, music video legend Joseph Kahn’s second feature doesn’t just take aim at slasher films, but uses their exploitable familiar formula to send satirical barbs at everything from social media, to the torture porn craze, to viral videos, to… small town Americana? High school movie clichés?

Everything but the kitchen sink?

Detention’s hyperactive plot sees disgruntled senior Riley Jones struggle with her unpopularity whilst a masked murderer named Cinderhella offs her classmates one-by-one, but as the film begins to deconstruct the slasher story, it takes sojourns into the world of superhero origin stories, body-swap family films, and eventually even time travel.

Also, did we mention Cinderhella is the in-universe star of a very successful Saw-style franchise? An instalment of which the characters go to see during her doppelganger/copycat’s killing spree?

All this uber-complicated plotting is in service of an ultimately pretty sweet high school comedy whose plot is anchored by a romance between Riley and her uber-cool former friend Clapton Davis, and the film uses slasher motifs in order to not only give the meandering plot some propulsive action but also to heighten the stakes for the detached, aloof adolescent protagonists.