Cry_Wolf

Miss (I cried something but it sure wasn’t wolf) – Starring really old people who do not look like high school students, Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki, Jon Bon Jovi

When a young woman is found murdered in the woods, a group of private school students decide to scare their peers by inventing a fictional serial killer called “The Wolf.” But when a real killer emerges, no one knows whom to believe.

Have you ever seen The Game with Michael Douglas? Well, Cry Wolf is a cheaper, younger, and horribly done version of the greatness that is The Game. I knew that I was in trouble when I entered the theatre on a Friday night at 9:35 and there were only 6 other people in the peanut gallery. And yet, I continued to watch the sad excuse of a horror film.

Why is this movie so bad? Let’s begin with an area that most people take for granted: sound. The sound editing and foley effects were all over the place. At one point in the movie, I thought the “DVD” skipped because there was a blatant pause in sound. Foley effects in the cafeteria scenes were way over the top, so much so, that I felt someone was having lunch right behind me – I consider this creepy, not artistic.

High school students should look like high school students. The actors were so old that I really did not understand why they didn’t decide to set the movie at a small catholic college. The average age of the actors playing the high school students is 24 with a remainder of 6. It makes me wonder if real high school students think these actors look old to them too????

And overall- the story was not interesting enough to keep the audience interested. The movie was too cliché and the ending seemed to be anticlimactic. Bottom Line: You will cry something if you see this wolf (most likely you will cry for your money back).

Horror

Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a brief drug reference.

Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes