Detained
“They say your friends can hold you back. They’re dead right.”
Thomas Doyle (Ciarán O’Brien) is an average, but good, student. But Doyle has landed himself in detention for the first time. He is now at the mercy of the detention supervisor, McAlester (Jarlath Conroy), who loves to taunt his new recruits and make sure they know who’s boss. He is the product of a harsh upbringing and doesn’t see why kids these days should have it any different.
But today, on Doyle’s first ever detention, McAlester is the least of the detainees’ problems.
Today, on Doyle’s first ever detention, the living dead attack.
Doyle, accompanied by his best mate and fellow detainee, Mark (Ben Morris), must escape from a school overrun with zombies. But Mark is badly wounded from the attack and anyone who knows anything about zombies will tell you that there is only one outcome in such a situation - Mark, sooner or later, will become one of them. Doyle must make it out through the school, encountering zombies, the skeptical and bitter caretaker, his own self-image and eventually his best friend. For Doyle, detention really is far worse than he’d been told.
Detained was ‘Highly Commended’ by the 15th International Festival of Fantastic Films (2004) in Manchester, England.
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Monday 28 Nov 2005 | Paul | Horror
