Music video helmer-turned-feature film director Joseph Kahn returns (after the abysmal Torque in 2004) to bring us an incredibly whacked out new teen slasher flick titled Detention that's a mix of so many different genres and ideas, it's hard to really pinpoint where the man was going with it all. This proves to be the film's strength and weakness, as it's clear by the end of the film that much of the insanity that occurred prior into the story could've been done without.

The movie starts out simple enough as we witness some bitchy high school girl get murdered by someone disguised as a character named "Cinderhella", whose the lead killer in a fictional slasher franchise within the movie. Shortly after her death the school and its staff are in an uproar about who killed this popular girl, and it's not long before the killer goes after his next victim, who happens to be our awkward female lead.