Director Robert Rodriguez ( From Dusk Till Dawn , El Mariachi ) trades his usual desert grime for fluorescent high school hallways, injecting the film with kinetic energy, inventive practical effects, and genuinely unsettling body horror (the pencil scene… you’ll know it).
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