Detention
Halloween on OVID
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1h 42m
Directed by John Hsu • Drama • With Gingle Wang; Meng-Po Fu; Hung Chang Chu; Jing-Hua Tseng; Cecilia Choi • 2019 • 102 minutes
Set during the Taiwanese martial law of the 1960s, this shockingly gruesome and terrifying coming-of-age drama based on a hugely popular video game sees two classmates who 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.
“Based on a videogame about schoolkids secretly flouting the ban on left-wing literature in ‘60s Taiwan… absorbing and entertaining.” —Variety
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