Moving faster and more furiously then the average 16-year-old’s texts-per-minute, director Joseph Kahn tosses the tropes of both slasher cinema and teen movies into a blender splattering them against a canvas of eye-popping ultra-saturated cinematography. He hyper-kinetically cuts across the misadventures of the students at Grizzly Lake High where a handful of high-school students are struggling to make it through senior year without dying in this manic satire of teen-themed slasher flicks and youth comedies. Riley (Shanley Caswell) is a clever but cynical social outcast and she's the unrequited love object of Sander (Aaron David Johnson), who is even less popular and more sexually frustrated than she is. Meanwhile, ironically named hipster Clapton (Josh Hutcherson in a pre Hunger Games role) is head over heels for Ione (Spencer Locke), a beautiful but self-obsessed cheerleader. All four are waiting out their final year of high school, but it's anyone's guess if they'll see graduation, as a serial killer known as CinderHella is on the loose and preying on Grizzly Lake's student body. Detention received its world premiere at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Detention screens at 7PM and tickets are available online from the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

Following at 9:45 is the feature V / H / S, which will have it's Canadian premiere. The brainchild of Brad Miska from Bloody-Disgusting, V/H/S brings together the combined talents of six different cutting edge genre filmmakers including Ti West (THE INNKEEPERS, HOUSE OF THE DEVIL), Glenn McQuaid (I SELL THE DEAD), Adam Wingard (A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE, YOU’RE NEXT), David Bruckner (THE SIGNAL), Joe Swanberg (SILVER BULLETS), and the filmmaking quartet Radio Silence.

When a group of lowlifes are hired to break into a house to steal a home video, they find themselves with more found footage than they bargained for. After entering, the thieves discover not one, but a whole collection of home made tapes, and the only way to find the one they’re looking for, is to watch them all. It’s the five tapes viewed and what happens to the thieves, that makes up the story of V/H/S. What makes this film so refreshing and exhilarating is that as well as being genuinely scary with some shocking twists, each of the five tapes, thanks to the different directors involved, has a distinct flavour to it. Each one also involves a different type of horror.

There's more information about the Summer Series of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival available online.