A societal horror commentary

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2006)

A group of students have been put in Saturday detention for breaking the laws of their school. Foolishly the school principal puts them together in the library and each is to write a paper about why they think they are here. Naturally they rebel and break even more laws of their superiors. This leads to the establishment of a cult run by powerful mysterious entity.
Once again, this is a much misperceived film. The liberal hugging audience thought it is about kids maturing and even teaching their adult superiors a few things, but upon closer inspection you can see the evil axis that is at hand. The students do learn something, but it is that they can exploit the weaknesses of their adult superiors for furthering the Devil's work. The principal just puts them into a room and expects them to listen to him! Fool! He should have done something himself, because "idle hands do the devil's work." The students proceed to indulge in drugs, profanities, and sexual fantasies as they are guided into a deep inner corruption. This is powerful message that good people can never truly rest in their mission of ridding the world of evil. The principal in the end recognizes this as he reads one paper that the students wrote and is an excuse for what he ordered them to do in the beginning.
The final images are particularly shocking as the students even display their inner corruption in front of their parents who do nothing. Nothing! Is it out of shame? No, it is because they didn't do enough before and now the, just like the snowball that rolls down hill and gets bigger and heavier with each revolution, the evil is impossible to stop. The students have been recruited by the devil to further his plan of liberal take over. The final image of one of the newly recruited hellspawns as he salutes the evil force that has now the town under its umbrella is one of the most disturbing. But only if the film is understood correctly.