School's Out
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Adam Mirajkar
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Two face-painted students, Sage and Merlin, scheme through Mr. Crowley's exam in an abandoned high school that looks suspiciously like a Disney Channel hellscape. It escalates into a skirmish nobody asked for.
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The scouts
A parody of tween TV that took the format seriously enough to actually destroy it. Real abandoned school, real costumes, real commitment to the bit.
Tween-sitcom grammar staged inside an actual decaying school building is a formal collision worth attempting; Wet Hot meets Welcome Freshmen is a very specific shelf. Texture-dependent.
Tween-sitcom grammar staged inside an actually decaying high-school building, with face-paint Sage and Merlin scheming through Mr. Crowley's exam, is a specific visual-textural collision. The bizarre-skirmish ending is the kind of escalation that lives or dies on commitment.
Reviews
Peculiar throughout, the film becomes increasingly absurd as it ends in a bizarre skirmish between the students and Mr. Crowley.