Bad Kids of Crestview Academy

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Bad Kids of Crestview Academy

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Released Jan 13, 2017

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

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Spoiled kids are placed in Saturday detention at the prestigious Crestview Academy. After one of the kids locks away the teacher, the kids find themselves trapped in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) set them up. Their ranks quickly dwindle as each falls victim to a gruesome accident while trying to escape.

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Andy Webster

New York Times

"It's time to break stereotypes, not reinforce them!" Headmaster Nash says at one point. Alas, not in this movie.

Jan 12, 2017

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Kimber Myers

Los Angeles Times

Why does this movie exist and how does it succeed in failing on every level?

Jan 12, 2017

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

In the end, Bad Kids of Crestview Academy squanders its mystery on telling a joke it has told several times already, and all tension leaves the film, making it hard to care for the remaining survivors.

Jan 9, 2020

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Joey Keogh

Wicked Horror

Bad Kids Of Crestview Academy is bright, obnoxious, over the top and super silly but it's far from the worst way to spend a couple of hours.

Rated: 5/10

Oct 7, 2019

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Andrew Marshall

Starburst

Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is certainly a film aware of how inherently daft it is, but it's nowhere near good enough to praise, nor does it reach the levels of endearingly bad in the way a legion of cult movies have remained popular.

Rated: 4/10

Jun 30, 2017

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Amid all the gory visual gimmicks, it's impossible to sympathize with any of these spoiled brats or their attempts to survive the carnage.

Jan 13, 2017

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Yuri B

Honestly, this wasn't what I was expecting. It was better than I had first anticipated, and was quite entertaining in it's own way... the young kids in the film definitely made some of the scenes memorable. But basically I gave it a glance because Ben Browder was involved with this project.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/22/25

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Luis T

This movie's like what (?!) did I just watch? It certainly won't be remembered but strange enough to keep watching it all the way through. Too incoherent, the characters are terrible, the story is terrible, but the dialog is somewhat interesting if for no other reason than how bizarre this is. Of course it's a teen gore horror movie where the protagonist teenage girl is trying to figure out how her sister died at a high school party, so they get locked in a cursed high school and go walking around, dying and stuff and then it just gets absolutely bizarre. Worth watching if you like bizarre teen horror.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/10/25

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Audience Member

Maybe with a better Director and script bad kids could’ve been something fun but as it is it’s a small budget B-movie all the way. The acting is pretty bad, the special effects or horrible, the story is ridiculous, and worst of all the movies just isn’t much fun. The kills are over-the-top. May be fans of the graphic novel will like it but non fans won’t find much here to enjoy.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/21

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Audience Member

It was entertaining, it just didn't make any sense. Case in point, the picture at the top of this review, never actually happens in the movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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steve d

effective slasher that improves on the zaniness of the original. Some nice dark humor helps break up the violence.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

What a mess... At least it had some attractive actors, otherwise I probably would have stared at my phone the whole time

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Spoiled kids are placed in Saturday detention at the prestigious Crestview Academy. After one of the kids locks away the teacher, the kids find themselves trapped in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) set them up. Their ranks quickly dwindle as each falls victim to a gruesome accident while trying to escape.

Director: Ben Browder
Producer: James R. Hallam, Brad Keller, Barry Wernick
Screenwriter: Barry Wernick, James R. Hallam
Distributor: Momentum Pictures
Production Co: Bad Kids
Rating: R (Nudity|Bloody Violent Content|Language Throughout|Drug and Alcohol Use|Sexual Material)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 13, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 2, 2017
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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