Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This didn't look to me like the sort of the film that would have been released in cinemas, it looks too much like a low-budget independent film that would go straight to TV or DVD, but it had a good rating, so I tried it. Basically in the fictional Wittering College in North London, English teacher Robert Anderson (David Schofield) is hit in the face by a student, to avoid being sued by the student's parents he is forced to take a three month holiday. Robert a few months later is still affected by the incident, he has become emotionally disturbed, alcoholic and separated from his wife Helen (Juliet Aubrey). Their daughter Kate (Eliza Bennett) lives with her mother and has classes with her father, but she does not respect Robert, he is also loathed by headmistress Sarah Balham (Ruth Gemmell) who wants to get rid of him, but the Union will not allow her to fire him. Robert has read in the news about another school experiencing violence, he sends a memo advising school employees, he is considered paranoid and delusional by everyone. One day after hours Robert and Kate get into a heated argument, he ends up hitting her, she leaves the room, soon after Robert notes strange movements outside the school, he advises security guard James (Finlay Robertson) to do something, but he is ignored. Soon enough however Robert realises that his paranoia is justified, Wittering College is surrounded and under a siege by a gang of hooligans in hoodies, he needs to find and protect daughter Kate and they need to somehow call for help. Also starring Emma Cleasby as Lucy, Roxanne McKee as Nicky, Tom Mannion as Gary, Max Fowler as Jake Eaves, Mike Burnside as Head of School Board Douglas and Jamie Kenna as Brian Stanton. Schofield is certainly convincing as the cynical and alienated teacher, but I'm not sure I agree with the critics giving this film four stars out of five, it is not particularly scary or bloody, it does seem to be more a psychodrama, it has a couple of tense moments, shadowy sequences and a bleak feel, but overall I didn't find it all that entertaining, it's a reasonable horror thriller. Worth watching, at least once!

With most American teen horrors these days being about as believable as a cow jumping over the moon ,this is not bad at all Just a bit off fun really but take it from a horror movie buff maybe it just resonates better with a British audience If you had the teachers like I had It might bring you some overdue stress realise However if you are a teacher like me it will bring many chuckles only a teacher will understand Was trying to think of any similar movies Erm prom night maybe but not really See it it won't harm

This movie is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. There is no plot, summary, etc. If you would like to waste your time, by all means, go ahead and watch. Trash. Terrible. Awful. This is terrible. Disgusting I can not believe I wasted so much time of my life.. How will I tell this story to my children? I will never recommend this movie to anyone! Please don't tell anyone not to shout when you know good and well this is crapo. Thank you and God Bless. This movie is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. There is no plot, summary, etc. If you would like to waste your time, by all means, go ahead and watch. Trash. Terrible. Awful. This is terrible. Disgusting I can not believe I wasted so much time of my life.. How will I tell this story to my children? I will never recommend this movie to anyone! Please don't tell anyone not to shout when you know good and well this is crap. Thank you and God Bless.

I can't really say I was impressed with this film. It seemed promising, with a kind of oppressive bleakness following the main character's thoroughly depressing existence. With the clear dysfunction between him and his daughter, it seemed like there was a clear foundation for a disturbing and realistic horror movie, but it was not to be.I understand that horror films are based on what people are afraid of, but this film is so unapologetically terrified of the youth of today that I can't help but wonder if anyone involved in writing it has ever actually spoken to a teenager, or if they just base all of their knowledge on what The Daily Mail tells them. None of the teenagers are portrayed as anything beyond either bratty, or murderous. And yet the film still lacks the kind of realistic, bleak air that the opening sections suggested. The fact that the hooded assailants were actually portrayed as nigh super-powered just seemed to hit it home further that this whole film is based entirely on absolute terror of teens.Neither realistic enough to be disturbing, nor supernatural enough to be coherent.