Bad Kids of Crestview Academy
Film poster
Directed by	Ben Browder
Screenplay by	Barry Wernick James R. Hallam
Story by	Barry Wernick
Based on	Bad Kids Go 2 Hell by Barry Wernick Matthew Spradlin
Produced by	James R. Hallam Brad Keller Barry Wernick
Starring	Sammi Hanratty Drake Bell Sean Astin Gina Gershon Ben Browder
Cinematography	Charles Schner
Edited by	Matt Diezel
Music by	Jeff Cardoni
Production company	Bad Kids Productions
Distributed by	Momentum Pictures
Release date	January 13, 2017 (2017-01-13)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is a 2017 American action comedy thriller film directed by Ben Browder.^[1][2][3]

Academy is a sequel to Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012). The screenplay was written by Barry Wernick and James R. Hallam. Both Hell and Academy are based on Wernick and Matthew Spradlin's best-selling graphic novel Bad Kids Go 2 Hell (2009), which is about the stories of the Wildman and Calloway children at an evil prep school. Academy stars Sammi Hanratty, Colby Arps, Sophia Taylor Ali, Erika Daly, Matthew Frias, Sean Astin, Gina Gershon, Ben Browder, Sufe Bradshaw, and Cameron Deane Stewart.^{[citation needed]}

Overview

Wernick and Hallam had written the graphic novel Bad Kids Go to Hell (2009), which was turned into the film Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012), both telling the story of Matt Clark, a student at prestigious Crestview Academy, who is the only survivor of six students serving a weekend detention.^{[citation needed]}

The story in Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2012) takes place five years later, when another group of detention students are slaughtered. Browder reprises his role as Max the janitor, in addition to serving as director of the film. In an end-scene cameo, Cameron Deane Stewart reprises his role as Matt Clark, the main protagonist of the original film.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

• Sammi Hanratty as Siouxsie Hess ("Undercrust")
• Colby Arps as Blaine Wilkes ("Mr. Clean")
• Sophia Taylor Ali as Faith Jackson ("Preacher's Daughter")
• Erika Daly as Sara Hasegawa ("Cat Lover")
• Matthew Frias as Brian Marquez ("Latin Spice")
• Ben Browder as Max (school janitor)
• Sufe Bradshaw as Dr. Knight (Dean of Students)
• Ashlyn McEvers as Alyson Hess (Siouxsie's dead sister)
• Alexandra "Ali" Astin as Ethel Balducci
• Sean Astin as Headmaster Nash
• Drake Bell as Ben, aka "The Naked Wizard"
• Gina Gershon as Senator Wilkes
• Cameron Deane Stewart as Matt Clark

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 10% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.1/10.^[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 22 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.^[5]