Genre eventually overwhelms ingenuity.
Cry_Wolf (2005)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:9
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence, terror, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a brief drug reference
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Sep 16, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $10,003,763
Synopsis: In the new thriller Cry_Wolf, eight unsuspecting high school seniors playing a game of lies come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar…even when they're telling the... In the new thriller Cry_Wolf, eight unsuspecting high school seniors playing a game of lies come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar…even when they're telling the truth. After one too many incidents of bad behavior at his last school, Owen Matthews (Julian Morris) arrives at Westlake Prep – where a young woman has recently been found murdered in the dark woods near the boarding school's campus. Owen quickly falls in with the school's unofficial "liar's club," including the beautiful and savvy Dodger (Lindy Booth of Dawn of the Dead and Wrong Turn) and quick-talking, short-tempered Tom (Jared Padalecki of the new television series Supernatural). At Owen's suggestion, his new friends decide to expand their game's reach beyond campus, by spreading an online rumor that a serial killer called "The Wolf" committed the recent murder and is planning to strike again. The mischievous group's descriptions of "The Wolf's" intended victims are based on the people they know best – each other. Only when the school's journalism teacher, Rich Walker (Jon Bon Jovi), warns the group about the kinds of predators that lurk on the internet does Owen begin to regret sending their falsified story into cyberspace. When the described "victims" suddenly start to disappear, Owen, Dodger, and Tom are no longer able to determine where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone – or something – starts hunting the players themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real. -- © Focus Features [More]
Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi, Jared Padalecki
Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi, Jared Padalecki, Jess Janzen, Paul James, Kristy Wu, Ethan Cohn, Anna Deavere Smith, Gary Cole
Director: Jeff Wadlow, Doug Liman
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Screenwriter: Doug Liman, Beau Bauman
Director: Doug Liman
Composer: Michael Wandmacher
Producer: Beau Bauman
Studio: Rogue Pictures
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Reviews for Cry_Wolf
Cry Wolf is certainly an impressive calling card for its co-writer/director Jeff Wadlow, even if ultimately it is too derivative to qualify as something to howl about.
Give it points for trying something different -- and then take them back for botching the job.
If you want something that asks you to think along with it to keep up with the characters and plot, Cry_Wolf's a good place to be.
another case of a modern thriller where we are expected to accept too many silly things
Nothing about the plot has any real spark, besides the gimmicky set-up.
Here’s a little movie that should have thriller aficionados licking their chops.
The inevitable detour into tedious and-then-there-were-none territory is all the more dispiriting in light of some of the intriguingly undeveloped ideas.
The current state of the American horror genre is, sadly, in a current state of horror.
After so many years of memorable horror villains, what’s particularly terrifying about some dude with a neon-orange ski mask and a ratty camouflage jacket?
I don't mind that the plotting is as transparent as a roomful of Saran Wrap. what I object to is that this movie is terminally, sleep-inducingly boring.
Not only is it kind-of-sort-of-almost good, but it's also arguably the best horror movie in theaters right now -- thanks to a decent script with a couple of great twists.
Une version un peu plus intelligente du « slasher movie » habituel, ce qui n’en fait pas plus un film intéressant.
In this adolescent horror flick, the first-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills for the audience.
Wadlow and cowriter Beau Bauman start with a clever conceit, but Wadlow's gimmicky direction runs it right into the ground.
This is a movie where the most earthbound person is a journalism prof played by Bon Jovi.
A stylish, frequently charming throwback to a time when horror films were essentially psychological thrillers with a higher body count.
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