Synopsis DETENTION SUCKS BUT IT'S KILLER FUN: It's four years later, and a new group of students has been placed in Saturday detention at the infamous and prestigious Crestview Academy. When Siouxsie, sophomore 'undercrust,' crashes the party to avenge her sister's death, a Saturday detention reserved for the privileged seniors of Crestview Academy turns into a date in hell. It's not long before a naïve pussycat lover, gay drug dealer, smokin' hot preacher's daughter, squeaky-clean senator's son, and the uninvited younger outsider find themselves locked-up in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) has set them up. Hilarity and suspense ensue while each 'bad kid' pits one against the other, and one by one each falls victim to absurdly gruesome 'accidents' while trying to escape. (Based on the best-selling graphic novel sequel 'Bad Kids Go 2 Hell.') NICHE African American, Asian American, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Latino, Native American, Women, Black, Youth Details • FILM CATEGORY Narrative Fiction, Feature • PRODUCTION LOCATION U S A • FILMING LOCATION U S A • MAIN DIALOGUE LANGUAGE English OFFICIAL WEBSITE https://crestview-academy.com SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES http://facebook.com/badkidsofcrestviewacademy http://twitter.com/crestviewbadkid http://crestviewbadkid.tumblr.com http://instagram.com/crestviewbadkid Cast & Credits (23) Barry Wernick▼ SUBMISSION CONTACT, PRODUCER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, WRITER, STORY, ADAPTATION, AUTHOR OF ADAPTED MATERIAL (GRAPHIC NOVEL) Ben Browder▼ DIRECTOR, MAX RAINWATER (LEAD ACTOR) Brad Keller▼ PRODUCER James Hallam▼ PRODUCER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, WRITER Blair Pogue▼ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Stuart Wernick▼ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Colby Arps▼ BLAINE WILKES (LEAD ACTOR) Drake Bell▼ BEN AKA "THE NAKED WIZARD" (LEAD ACTOR) Erika Daly▼ SARA HASEGAWA (LEAD ACTOR) Gina Gershon▼ SENATOR WILKES (LEAD ACTOR) Matthew Frias▼ BRIAN MARQUEZ (LEAD ACTOR) Sammi Hanratty▼ SIOUXSIE HESS (LEAD ACTOR) Sean Astin▼ HEADMASTER NASH (LEAD ACTOR) Sophia Taylor Ali▼ FAITH JACKSON (LEAD ACTOR) Sufe Bradshaw▼ DR. KNIGHT (LEAD ACTOR) Ali Astin▼ ETHEL (SUPPORTING ACTOR) Ashlyn McEvers▼ ALYSON HESS (SUPPORTING ACTOR) Cameron Deane Stewart▼ MATT CLARK (SUPPORTING ACTOR) Charles Schner▼ CINEMATOGRAPHER/DP Eric Whitney▼ PRODUCTION DESIGNER Errol Spat Oktan▼ SPECIAL EFFECTS Matt Diezel▼ EDITOR Jeff Cardoni▼ ORIGINAL MUSIC/COMPOSER Technical Details PICTURE FORMAT Color ASPECT RATIO 1.78 (16x9 VIDEO) SHOOTING FORMAT RED, Other EXHIBITION FORMAT DCP SCREENER FORMAT BLU-RAY PRESS KIT Director Statement Ben Browder on his Directorial Debut: You know I didn’t realize that I wanted to do it. I didn’t realize that everything I had done up to this point was basically preparing me to direct. And I absolutely loved it. It’s probably one of the most intense experiences I’ve had since shooting "Farscape." In many ways it’s also one of my most Farscap-ian type of experiences. A great deal of what I learned about filmmaking I picked up in Australia. I picked up from the Australian directors and from the crew and from the way we operated on the set of Farscape. I found myself going back to that model as a director, a collaborative and free-flowing environment that quite often you don’t see on American television shows, which are more top-down orientated. For me it was tremendous. I had way too much fun and was way too exhausted by the end of it... which to me felt a lot like Farscape. Ben Browder DIRECTOR, MAX RAINWATER (LEAD ACTOR) IMDb PAGE » Ben Browder is an American actor, writer, and director born in Memphis, Tennessee. After a successful college football career, college theatrics and a degree in Psychology at Furman University in South Carolina, Ben moved to London to study classical acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Ben's acting career started in Charlotte, North Carolina where he was raised. In the late 60's he made TV commercials. In the late 70's he appeared in the children's movie Duncan's World playing Gates, one of Duncan's best friends. He worked as a guest on various TV series, TV pilots and movies before he got his first noted TV series role as Sam Brody in Party of Five's 3rd season beginning with episode 9, titled Gimme Shelter. In 1999, Ben got a major break as the star of the science fiction TV series Farscape in which he played astronaut and scientist John Robert Crichton. The series ran for four seasons on what was then known as the SciFi cable channel until 2002 when it was cancelled. After finding financing, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars was created to finish the Farscape series which had ended with a cliffhanger at the end of the 4th season. Ben also starred as Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell in the 9th and 10th seasons of the science fiction TV show Stargate SG-1 after series star and producer Richard Dean Anderson left the show. Since his return from Canada and the making of two movies for Bridge Studios (Ark of Truth and Continuum where he reprised his role as Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell), Ben has guest-starred on Arrow twice, Doctor Who, Chuck, and CSI. He also starred in a children’s film called The Adventures of Roborex (2014) and Dead Still (2014). Ben has been nominated for the genre industry's Saturn award five times. He took home the award in 2002 for Best Actor in a Television Series (Farscape) and again in 2005 for Best Actor on Television (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars). Ben makes a few convention appearances each year. In 2012, that included the US and Australia. In 2013, he was in the US - Chicago Stargate Convention, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. Ben is married to actress Francesa Buller. They met in acting school in London. Ben and Francesca have two children. Drake Bell BEN AKA "THE NAKED WIZARD" (LEAD ACTOR) IMDb PAGE » Drake Bell was born on June 27, 1986 in Santa Ana, California, USA as Jared Drake Bell. He is known for his work on Drake and Josh, Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Superhero Movie (2008) and High Fidelity (2000). Though he had been acting since he was five, when he was filmed in his first commercial, Drake Bell (born Jared Drake Bell in Orange County, California) didn’t start playing the guitar until he was cast in the 2001 TV movie Chasing Destiny, also starring the Who’s Roger Daltrey, who gave the young performer his initial lessons. As a teenager, though Bell was focusing on acting, he continued to play music and write songs on the side, and after a program he was in, Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show, was canceled in 2002, and a spinoff, The Drake and Josh Show, was started (it first aired in 2004), Bell was able to finally show off his chops onscreen, writing the theme song, “Found a Way,” and playing an exaggerated version of his guitarist self-named Drake Parker. The show ran from 2004 to 2007 while in 2006, the first Drake and Josh TV film, “Drake And Josh Go Hollywood”, was brought to life and later in 2008, the second TV film “Merry Christmas Drake And Josh”. Heavily influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Bell released his debut, Telegraph, independently in 2005; soon after he signed to Universal, who put out his sophomore record, It’s Only Time, the following year. The live album, Drake Bell in Concert, appeared in 2008 and it wouldn’t be until 2011 that Bell would release any new material, with the stopgap EP A Reminder. Returning to the studio some two years later with childhood hero Brian Setzer, Bell released his third album, the rockabilly-inspired Ready Steady Go! on Surfdog Records in April 2014. With music being his first love, Drake has just made the most rockin’ and exciting album of his career. Wait ’til you hear this collection of melodic pop, and at the same time hard-hitting rock n roll. Drake’s millions of fans around the world have been very happy with what they have heard. And so will you! His song Bitchcraft is the first end credit song in the movie "Bad Kids of Crestview Academy." Gina Gershon SENATOR WILKES (LEAD ACTOR) IMDb PAGE » Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verhoeven's kitsch classic Showgirls (1995). Exploding out of a plaster-of-Paris volcano clad in nothing but body makeup and a G-string, Gina Gershon obtained cinema immortality. After Showgirls (1995), she solidified her fearless reputation, playing a lesbian sexpot in the Wachovski Bros' neo-noir Bound (1996). Gina Gershon was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the last in a brood of three kids. Her mother, Mickey (Koppel), worked as an interior decorator, and her father, Stanley Gershon, was a salesman and worked in the import/export business. Her paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families, and her maternal grandparents were born in Holland and Belgium, both of them to Jewish families from Poland. Gina was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and got the acting bug early, appearing at the age of seven in a school production of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Because of her acting ambitions, her parents moved to Beverly Hills so Gina could attend Beverly Hills High, where she indulged her acting jones by appearing in a student production of The Music Man (1962). Her first love, she says, is singing.