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    Movie: Cry Wolf
Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth
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Studio:Universal
Release Date:December 20, 2005
Review By:Pandora


  A bored rich group of students decide to play a joke on the rest of the school by sending out a fake email about a killer running loose...




REVIEW CONTINUED BELOW...

RATING: 0.98 (out of 4.00)



To keep the game going you must follow just a few simple rules, avoid suspicion, lie to your friends, and eliminate your enemies. But soon everyone starts taking it too far and after awhile it seems that there is an actual killer running around school. Now the killer will have to be found out before everyone loses their lives.

When I first started watching this movie I thought there might be something here since it is a slightly new story. But my hopes were quickly smashed as the plot unfolded. The story is rapidly abandoned as the goal turns into lets trick the audience into thinking that anyone can be the killer. Soon you have ever character as a possible suspect with no care to continuity or entertainment. Also this wanted to be a horror flick; but there is a lack of whacking and in the end you realize that it was suppose to be a thriller. I found there to be little suspense or tension so by the end I did not care who did it just as long as they just ended it so I could go on with my day. I watched the unrated version; but I really can’t see them having added a lot to the movie in that whole unrated extra MINUTE. That’s right just one minute. There are deleted & alternate scenes (which would have changed the movie some and many are pretty long), The Tower of Babble (which is the short film this is based off of), tour the set with Julian Morris, Manual Labor (another short film by the filmmakers), a look at the casting, and commentary with filmmakers. In my opinion if you really like horror films don’t waste your time on this you will walk away wishing you had watched something else.


-Pandora has been a writer for Shakefire.com since 2002.  Contact her at pandora@shakefire.com

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