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StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
marieflb
It's been a long time since I first watched it and tonight I saw it again and I just have to say I love it. It's not the typical teen slasher film nor the typical horror movie. What's also great it's that the director made it after he won $1,000,000 at the 2002 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival... It's a shame this movie is so underrated and actually I'm just reviewing so I can give it a 10 points score. The ending is also great but I won't give it away, you'll be surprised. This movie is an example of how good a teen slasher-suspense movie can be as apposed to the crap we've (horror fans) been getting lately, not saying everything's bad but you know what I mean.Go watch it, you won't be disappointed.
Nitzan Havoc
For those of you who only read the first line - WATCH THIS MOVIE if you haven't yet.Just as the game in the story is all about deception, manipulation and off-throwing - so is the movie! It starts off just like any other teen-horror film. All the indicators are present. Small esoteric isolated town, typical gang of friends, even some minorities (not to be racist or anything, that's just the way it is), a nerd, a jerk, and even a Prom Queen-New Guy affair to top off the clichés. What could go right, huh?The dialogs unfortunately appeared to to be out-of-character and really hurt my suspension of disbelief. The high level vocabulary (while always a nice surprise in such films) should not have been used by the "idiot"/"jerk" of the gang...Then, suddenly - the audience who have been expecting nothing more than another mediocre McDonalds apple pie, get a gourmet chocolate soufflé. It begins with the brilliant shooting (i.e. enactments of the scenes described by the dialogs, the Email being written as the information in it is verbalized, etc.) While not all that original, I think the director has managed to renovate and upgrade the technique.However, the absolute best part (and the main reason I've given this film 9/10) is the game. As corny as it might sound - while the kids are playing their pranks on each other, the real prank victims are us. At first, like 27 minutes into the film, I snapped my fingers and "called" who the killer was. "I have too long a history of whodunits", I said to myself, "this has been a disappointingly easy guess". Was I ever wrong... Towards the end - so many twists, changes, confusions, half truths and lies... I dare you to guess the ending halfway through! If at first we were accomplices to the gang's pranks, by the end we were taken out of the picture completely, just like the actual victims.It's not the sort of film like Saw IV where you have to rewind and re- watch in order to understand what happened. By the end of "Cry_Wolf", all questions are asked, and answered.Genius story! A little more work on the dialog and the acting of some of the teenagers, and I'd have given it 10/10. Like I've said at the beginning - WATCH this film. The BEST teen-horror/twist film I've ever seen! The genre has obviously come a long way since Scream & I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Conor97
This film is absolutely amazing! I couldn't believe it was that good the first time I saw it! I thought it would just be another crap slasher movie about some teenagers getting killed by a serial killer. But it wasn't even about a killer, there was actually more to it than that. It has so much twists in it that after you watch it you just sit their and think about how confusing the movie you just watched was! It is really good and I recommend it to anyone who likes mysteries/thrillers. It is so thrilling you will be sitting on the edge of your seat. I'm only 13 but I've seen many horror films and I've never actually been scared of any of them and I wasn't scared of this one but surprisingly I was very creep-ed out by it! Its a great movie! 10/10
Jackson Booth-Millard
We all know the story of the boy who cried "wolf", called it once - people ran out scared - it was joke, same thing a second time, and the third time it was real - no people - he was killed, well that is the concept borrowed for this horror film attempt. Basically a local girl that attended Westlake Prepratory Academy has been murdered in the woods, and new arrival to the school Owen Matthews (Julian Morris) is new to the information. After making friends quite quickly, including senior student Dodger (Lindy Booth), he connects with them in a game of "wolf" where one person is marked as the wolf, i.e. the liar, and one by one the suspected liar is eliminated until the real one is revealed. Anyway, Owen and Dodger decide to play a much bigger version of this game in order to catch the killer of the local girl, by setting up a warning internet message with killer details and victim information, that quickly spreads throughout the school. It starts off as a harmless joke that no-one is questioning, but the smiles are soon wiped when people look like they are truly getting to bite it, and there is no distinction between lies and the truth. In the end, what also turns out to be a big joke with all eight "friends" backfires on Owen, he is arrested for killing a man that only seemed mad, and Owen reveals Dodger's true colours. Also starring Jared Padalecki as Tom, Kristy Wu as Regina, Sandra McCoy as Mercedes, Paul James as Lewis, Jon Bon Jovi as Rich Walker, Jesse Janzen as Randall, Gary Cole as Mr. Matthews and Anna Deavere Smith as Headmaster Tinsley. If this film was a bit easier to understand, if there is was any good gore, and if the story was a bit more substantial, I might give it a more positive review, but I can't because none of this is the case, a bearable but disappointing horror thriller. Okay!