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Cry_Wolf
Score: 90%
Rating: Not Rated
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region: 1
Media: DVD/1
Running Time: 31 minutes
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Audio: English Dolby Digital
           5.1
English SDH, Spanish and
           French subtitles


Features:
  • Deleted and Alternate Scenes
  • Enter the Sinister Set: A tour with actor Julian Morris
  • The Tower of Babble: The award-winning short film that led the filmmakers to Cry_Wolf
  • Manual Labor: The short film that helped the filmmakers win the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival
  • Wolves, Sheep and Shepherds: Casting the Roles
  • Commentary by the filmmakers

Cry_Wolf is an interesting horror/thriller movie that follows several prep school kids who have invented a killer and spread the hoax across the school. But when someone starts killing off the inventors of the hoax, it seems like their fake-killer is real.

Cry_Wolf has a staff of up and comers like Lindy Booth (Dawn of the Dead) and Jared Padalecki (WB series "Supernatural") and Jon Bon Jovi (who plays a journalism teacher). When a new kid joins the private school, a group of misfits decide that their regular game has gotten too predictable. Usually, the group gets together and tries to root out the wolf, a sleeper who tries to get the rest of the group voted out. But when the group decides to start playing a new game, things get out of control. One by one, the teenagers drop dead in exactly a manner that they described in a mass e-mail they sent out to the entire school.

Like I said above, Cry_Wolf has some interesting parts to it. In the end, several twists become apparent, some of which I found to be pretty predictable, but overall it was a good experience.

Unlike movies like Sixth Sense that left clues for you throughout the movie (and thus beg for a re-watch) -- the turns that this film throws out there aren't really hinted at until the plot-twist is revealed.

In short, if you are in the mood for a good thriller with a few twists in it, then Cry_Wolf is definitely worth a rental. The only reason why I wouldn't suggest actually buying this movie is because there isn't really a reason to watch it a second time. Even though there are four or five twists at the end, they are done in such a way that going back and watching the movie a second time will give you no more insight than the explanations given.



-J.R. Nip, GameVortex Communications
AKA Chris Meyer

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