“School Spirit” Blood Soaked Into the Dark Episode Review, Season 1
Into the Darks’ horror movies on Hulu (S1.E11 ∙ School Spirit), I’m coming to you with a movie review and trailer for “School Spirit.” August celebrates School Spirit Day. As a slasher fan, I was looking forward to director Mike Gan’s pom-pom-induced horror and mystery thriller. The School Spirit movie is about a group of teenage friends who all go to school together.
Confined to weekend detention, they find that there is something ghostly haunting the halls. In a similar context to the TV series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, the School Spirit movie takes murdering teens into slasher territory. The title was penned by writers Patrick Casey and Josh Miller who are part of the team for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Who is the Killer in the School Spirit Movie?
The opening scenes for this episode begin in a school. Two teens are installing a camera on the roof of the locker room. A great introduction to a slasher movie if you ask me. When an unseen figure murders both, we’re then transported to a different day and time somewhere in the not-too-distant following days. The trailer for episode 11 of Season 1 of Into the Dark tells of how the legend of the spirit.
A teacher has a heart attack as a result of a prank. Now she haunts the hallways looking to take revenge on bad kids. There is more tension in the preview as the building creaks and moans than in the whole of the rest of its scenes.
My experience of this episode wasn’t favorable despite the fact I love watching a solid slasher. The combination of an urban legend that roams the hallways and a modern-day Breakfast Club detention group was a great setting for the film. However, it seems that the casting choice of one main star and the rest being relatively unknown made it easy for you to guess the killer’s identity before the slow murder of the small group. The addition of generic staple narrative choices made the School Spirit 2019 far too predictable.
Horror Movie Urban Legends
The murders themselves are something I took issue with the most and blamed for the lack of tension. The body count is treated as a joke, utilizing a paper cutter in one example, but failing to keep up the momentum. The masked killer gag is easily the most common for slasher fare. An elaborate kill is definitely on the slasher fans’ checklist. Tension, therefore, is a must, in the absence of this.
But you can’t make up for tension by turning the sound off and it’s as though someone stuffed cotton wool into the sound mic of the boom. Suddenly everything goes quiet as a lone figure drops down through the roof to take out the unassuming victim who only notices and looks up; right as the knife comes down.
Aside from the unconvincing games of hide-and-seek, lackluster narrative, and predictability in working out who the killer is, the ending of School Spirit was this episode’s biggest strength. It’s a shame the theme of the finale wasn’t expanded to cover up the rest of the run times’ shortfalls.
The School Spirit episode of Into the Dark, Season 1 is rated
2 never judge a book out of 5
How many episodes of Into the Dark are there?
There are 2 seasons of Hulu’s Into the Dark. Season 2 was released on the Hulu platform in October 2019.
Where Can I Watch Into the Dark TV Series?
In case you didn’t know, the horror anthology series is on the streaming platform, Hulu. You might find it difficult for those outside the USA to get your hands on this series. Unless of course you get yourself a VPN and sign up.
