BAD KIDS GO TO HELL

DIR MATTHEW SPRADLIN

starring Judd Nelson

 

SWAT team barges into a school library to find a student holding an axe and surrounded by savaged bodies, before the film goes back eight hours previously. Six unruly prep school students are forced to serve Saturday detention for eight hours at Crestview Academy, where psychologist Dr. Day (Jeffrey Schmidt) conducts psychological testing on the students to examine their personalities and trigger their demeanors, recording each session in the process.

 

Playing out like an acidic BREAKFAST CLUB this film was actually fun to watch. It even has Jon Bender (Judd Nelson) in it, only now HE'S the principal. As said it follows BC a lot. Think of it as a modern day retelling of the classical Brat packs feel good, clique flick. The cast lays out as so. Low-income student Matt Clark (Cameron Deane Stewart) plans to compensate for his poor behavior by joining the awkward Tarek Ahmed (Marc Donato), the jock Craig Cook (Roger Edwards), the sly Goth girl Veronica Harmon (Augie Duke), the prissy and asthmatic Megan McDurst (Amanda Alch), and the popular girl Tricia Wilkes (Ali Faulkner) in detention.

 

After giving them the task to complete a school history assignment, Dr. Day restricts their internet reach and takes away many of their phones, leaving the students imprisoned alone in the library, remodeled by the janitor, Max (Ben Browder), with Native American portraits and an Apache statue. The students believe the library is haunted. They all try to break out of the library, but are sealed in. Behaving mischievous, Veronica hides Megans inhaler and frames Tarek, leading to Megan having a shortness of breath and dying before its found. Getting the internet to work, Veronica does her research. They discover an old, deceased Indian, Jacob Rainwater, once owned land that was stolen from the Apache tribe in the 1870s by a General, Andrew Winston Clarke, before it was taken over by the city of Crestview to build the school.

 

As the students argue on-and-off, they find a vent to navigate to different rooms that have its doors locked on both sides. BAD KIDS GO TO HELL is a fairly cool movie.greta, not so much. just decent. but its excitingly decent, meaning i watched this in the 80s under the name of BREAKFAST CLUB just with a dark twist as opposed to the aforementioned happy go lucky ending and a ton of betrayel. As the tagline says, "Daddy's money can't save them now!". If you run across this movie , pick it up it's fun but i dont suggest searching it out.

NECRoSTEIN