The blood-splattered Breakfast Club. Like that film, this is about teens in detention at the school library on a Saturday. UNLIKE the John Hughes movie, this detention results in decapitation, impalement, swinging axes and nail gun death. It seems that the library is haunted because it’s built on land seized from an American Indian mystic, but there’s a little more to it than that. There’s a satirical edge to this teen screamer. The students are all rich kids, the sons and daughters of politicians and big businessmen, which the film uses to set up sly commentary about privileges of the wealthy. It almost makes up for the annoying characters who are granted lots of time to spout off about not much.
Writers Matthew Spradlin (who also directed) and Barry Wernick completed their screenplay in 2007, but weren’t able to get the movie made, so they adapted their script as a comic book mini-series. It became popular enough for the two to finally realize their cinematic ambitions, on a B-movie budget, five years later.