Where to watch Detention in the United States
Detention (2019) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to stream on OVID.
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You can watch Detention (2019) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
In the 1960s, two classmates 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.
This psychological nightmare swaps standard jump scares for a surreal, monochrome landscape of historical trauma and shifting architecture. It transforms the claustrophobia of a 1960s classroom into a fever dream where political repression manifests as literal, skin-crawling monsters.
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Director
John Hsu
Cast
Gingle Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Tseng Jing-Hua, Cecilia Choi, Chu Hung-Chang, Liu Yue-Ti, Chang Pen-Yu, Joseph Hsia, Yun Chung-Yueh, Pan Chin-Yu
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Detention
You can watch Detention (2019) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
John Hsu
Cast
Gingle Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Tseng Jing-Hua, Cecilia Choi, Chu Hung-Chang, Liu Yue-Ti, Chang Pen-Yu, Joseph Hsia, Yun Chung-Yueh, Pan Chin-Yu
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