Review – Learning Curve

A substitute teacher dropped into the bully-trashed hell of a public high school exacts elaborate revenge on the six worst kids. Needless to say, this was the Feel Good Movie of the Year. Our hero (John S. Davies) concocts a scheme to get the little monsters “internships” and then drag them off to animal cages in the middle of nowhere. With a choice between torture and education, the brats finally settle down and start learning something. Though the plot summary on Netflix made this sound like an average piece of torture porn trash, the movie was originally made before Saw started the current sadism wave. And unlike most graphic slasher pictures, this one actually has a point and does a reasonably good job of making it. The high school teacher I watched it with assures me that – aside from a few technical points – the school in the movie is all too much like actual public schools. Now that’s scary! Originally released as Detention. Mildly amusing