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"Welcome to the school of hard knocks"--A group of teachers and students are locked inside a school after hours as a gang of hooded killers intent on murder set out on a blood-soaked rampage. Chased through the dark corridors and classrooms, the ensnared group must outfight and outwit their brutal attackers in an escape bid that will push them to the very limits of survival.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By T. BROOKES
Format:DVD
This 2010 Brit horror thriller really needs to go to detention. There are several reviews praising it's English individualism but for me this film fails to deliver any true or real scares or anything 'horror' like and never gets out of year one / first gear. This movie falls easily into the Brit Horror category - being rather soft, and not as good as say Creep, The Decent, 24 Hours Later or Eden Lake. However, in comparison this is more of a thriller than a horror and will appeal to those not wanting any blood and guts gore.
The film is about a small group of teachers, and pupils, that are either working late or in detention become stuck in the school, which quickly has some hooded youths begin to terrorise the trapped party.
Some of the characters are good, the others one dimensional and the scenes are ill paced, gloomy and in comparison to other thrillers this is a little lightweight, even if the ideas and plot are impressively passable.
The film stars Davis Schofield (Senator Falco in Gladiator) and Eliza Bennet (Nanny McPhee and Inkheart). The director Johannes Roberts is best known for his mini made for mobile series 'When Evil Calls (2006).
The film is about a small group of teachers, and pupils, that are either working late or in detention become stuck in the school, which quickly has some hooded youths begin to terrorise the trapped party.
Some of the characters are good, the others one dimensional and the scenes are ill paced, gloomy and in comparison to other thrillers this is a little lightweight, even if the ideas and plot are impressively passable.
The film stars Davis Schofield (Senator Falco in Gladiator) and Eliza Bennet (Nanny McPhee and Inkheart). The director Johannes Roberts is best known for his mini made for mobile series 'When Evil Calls (2006).
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Miss S. Hocking
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
I really didn't think much of this film. I'm a huge horror/thriller film fan and must admit I'm quite picky but this was just lacking in something. It definitely had potential at the beginning and throughout there are tense moments and there are definite 'who's chasing who?' and 'who do you trust? questions that echo throughout the plot which to admittedly keep you watching but the ending is a huge disappointment and really makes you wonder why you watched the film. It's slightly different from your average film and like I said it really did feel like it had the intelligence and acting at the start to be a great addition to the genre but it falters after the beginning and becomes rather less than average. Great shame.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By All of them Witches
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
It takes some level of ineptitude to make such a dogs dinner of a potentially interesting concept. This director wouldn't know an allegory or subtext if it put him in a headlock and stole his dinner money.
Things I hated:
The continual repetition - person in foreground, fleeting figure running across scene behind them, person investigates, hoody appears to loud sound effect to elicit a cheap scare. Repeat and repeat again.
Hoodies spending 50% of the film crawling across book cases, generally being all feline/ninja.
Hoodies blacked out faces. Not cleverly filmed in shadow or from different angles but a stupid looking pitch black material obscuring their faces.
Complete imbalance of any horror element. Either nothing at all shown or really over the top and out of place facial injuries. Didn't make it shocking, just looked silly.
Poor dialogue, poor set pieces, poor characters, poor conclusion.
The ending - It's fine and often a great thing to have an unexplained enigmatic resolution but it just doesn't work here because this film has no substance to begin with.
Things I liked:
Some of the performances were fine.
One of the teachers was quite attractive though she blotted her copy book by giving one of the dumbest interviews I've ever seen in the extras on this film. That's it.
'F' all out of 10
Things I hated:
The continual repetition - person in foreground, fleeting figure running across scene behind them, person investigates, hoody appears to loud sound effect to elicit a cheap scare. Repeat and repeat again.
Hoodies spending 50% of the film crawling across book cases, generally being all feline/ninja.
Hoodies blacked out faces. Not cleverly filmed in shadow or from different angles but a stupid looking pitch black material obscuring their faces.
Complete imbalance of any horror element. Either nothing at all shown or really over the top and out of place facial injuries. Didn't make it shocking, just looked silly.
Poor dialogue, poor set pieces, poor characters, poor conclusion.
The ending - It's fine and often a great thing to have an unexplained enigmatic resolution but it just doesn't work here because this film has no substance to begin with.
Things I liked:
Some of the performances were fine.
One of the teachers was quite attractive though she blotted her copy book by giving one of the dumbest interviews I've ever seen in the extras on this film. That's it.
'F' all out of 10
Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
If this is the UK film industry's future,"F"Orf to it all!
Latest example ofimagination-free, creatively challenged cack bounds out of the 'Eden Lake' bratsville no-hoper park to leave you colder than the full blast of an arctic storm, and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by ScottPaul ScottPaul
5.0 out of 5 stars
british horror at its best
forget american big budget slasher films,this little gem has it all,great acting,scary atmosphere but above all,a sense of reality,
you can believe this could happen,a group... Read more
you can believe this could happen,a group... Read more
Published 2 months ago by shay boast
4.0 out of 5 stars
B plus
A film that divides opinions. Is it F for Fail as some people say? I first saw this on TV and it was a real surprise - an original British horror - kept me gripped from start to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by GramP
5.0 out of 5 stars
F
my uncle loved it. he said it was one of the best films he had seen in a long time, not my cup of tea but there u go. thank u.
Published 4 months ago by mandy
4.0 out of 5 stars
Inconclusive ending
The general film was quite good. The effects were classy, as their budget was very low, and the main story line wasn't too bad. But it left quite a few questions at the end. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Peter
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great start, very weak ending
The start, with the teacher being assaulted by a pupil, then threatened with legal action, promised an interesting film. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Apple-eater
4.0 out of 5 stars
Assault on Precinct 13 set in a school with slight elements of Duel!
This is the kind of limited budget movie that if made 30 years ago by Carpenter or Spielberg would be a cult classic by now. Read more
Published 8 months ago by 1philone
4.0 out of 5 stars
F gets a B+
F is less a slasher film than a gritty inner-city drama at which British film-makers excel.
Teacher David Schofield is violently head-butted by one of his students. Read more
Teacher David Schofield is violently head-butted by one of his students. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Quetzalcoatl78
2.0 out of 5 stars
I have to say, just could of been so much better in my eyes
I'm still stunned at coming here and seeing some people thought it was 5 star and really good. I thought it had potential to begin with and parts of it too were acted OK but the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by P. M. Dalton
1.0 out of 5 stars
This banal, remarkably unfrightening film seems to have been made with...
'F' is interesting initially, however it quickly descends into a woefully banal, generic and wholly unfrightening slasher flick. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Hawkins
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