Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 5
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Six private school high school kids find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their 8 hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. And as each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field? Or have the ghosts of prestigious Crestview Academy
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Judd Nelson
Headmaster Nash -
Ben Browder
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Cameron Deane Stewart
Matt, Matt Clark -
Ali Faulkner
Tricia, Tricia Wilkes -
Roger Edwards
Craig, Craig Cook -
Marc Donato
Tarek, Tarek Ahmed -
Augie Duke
Veronica, Veronica Harm... -
Amanda Alch
Megan, Megan McDurst -
Jeffrey Schmidt
Dr. Day -
Chanel Ryan
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Eloise Dejoria
Governor Wilkes
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A slickly produced and brazenly clever piece of work that could attract a cult by sheer dint of its ingenious nastiness and self-aware snark.
Top CriticWith characters that come off more as collections of tics than people and a soundtrack stuck on earsplitting dance remix mode, Bad Kids plays like a straight-to-DVD bad dream.
A cute cast enlivens this body-count picture set in a snooty high school, but once you get past the formulaic clichés, there's nothing there but more clichés.
It's an edgy dark comedy with a few clever touches, but the film ... becomes a jumbled mess that lacks both sympathetic characters and suspense.
This mixture of thriller, horror and satire flaunts a smart-ass tone that proves deadening. As the body count starts rising, viewer interest quickly begins dropping.
The movie suffers from several implausibilities, and as you can probably tell, it isn't high art. But horror movies usually tap into our secret fears and desires, and Bad Kids Go to Hell does so quite well.
The real mystery of BKGTH isn't who's doing the killing, but where the passion went in this independently produced screenplay-turned-comic-book-turned-movie.
The movie isn't scary enough for horror fans, gruesome enough for the slasher crowd or campy enough to be funny, so it falls into something of a cinematic purgatory.
The film's unlikely combination of didacticism and sexy teen slaughter signals a booming trend: the Occupy horror flick.
Audience Reviews for Bad Kids Go to Hell
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- Veronica Harmon: I'm out like a boner in sweatpants.
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- Tricia Wilkes: I don't do "we." I just do "me."
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- Veronica: It use to be... our parents jobs made them boring and mean. But now, WE are boring and mean.
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- Craig: You hate me because I have options. The only 'virtue' you have... is because your options are limited.
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- Tricia: This is detention...this is not a love-in...
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Combining the eighties' teen staple with a spam-in-a-cabin plot-line should make for a fun little horror romp but this turkey, adapted from director Spradlin's own comic book, is more concerned with plot twists than low-budget thrills. Most of the film consists of the kids, none of which are remotely likeable, screaming at each other. A flashback structure attempts to inject some humor but falls flat.
Perhaps unruly high-schoolers could be forced to watch this bore rather than sit detention?