Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017)

Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is the kind of scrappy, pleasantly unhinged genre cocktail that sneaks up on you: a detention-room bottle movie that keeps tightening the screws until the laughs start coming from the same place as the gasps. It has a wicked, darkly comic vibe—part teen satire, part mystery-box thriller—where the characters’ masks crack just enough to make their clashes funny, messy, and weirdly satisfying, helped along by performances that commit to the madness instead of winking at it. The script moves with surprising snap, turning a familiar high-school setup into a claustrophobic, sci‑fi-tinged nightmare ride that’s more clever than it has to be. If you don’t enjoy mean-spirited humor or absurdly gruesome “accidents,” it may not be your flavor, but if you like your laughs served with suspense and a little bite, this is an easy, entertaining watch.

Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is clearly aiming for a snarky, neon-lit mashup of teen detention comedy, whodunit mystery, and splattery sci‑fi thrills, with a new batch of stereotypes forced to survive the night. The problem is it plays like several movies fighting for control: the plot gets tangled, the rules of the “who or what is doing this” hook feel more confusing than intriguing, and the jokes land with more effort than payoff. If you’re hoping for sharp satire, clever mystery reveals, or genuinely scary tension, this will likely feel generic and oddly unfocused. Still, if you’re in the mood for low-stakes, B-movie chaos with some absurdly gruesome set pieces and don’t mind uneven execution, you might get a little guilty fun out of it.