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Cry Wolf

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Time Out says

A serial killer flick without significant carnage might sound like a real non-starter, but it’s possible to give first-time director Jeff Wadlow’s boarding school thriller the benefit of the doubt by assuming it’s more interested in plot manipulation than outright blood-letting. This perhaps explains how the production won a million-dollar prize from a US auto manufacturer, but it still comes across as a cumulatively tiresome exercise in story mechanics as bored students at an exclusive Virginia academy react to the recent slaying of a local ‘townie’ by pretending their classmates are the killer’s next target, group e-mailing an invented case history as a mass scare tactic. However, when the supposed psycho returns their on-line messages and one of their number disappears, it looks like their lies might be coming worryingly true. Sundry red herrings and ever-shifting guilt make the story more Agatha Christie than Wes Craven, but as the obviously over-age cast prove exasperatingly dim-witted while trading smart-aleck dialogue, the power of suggestion takes us only so far before patience wears thin.

Release Details

  • Rated:12A
  • Release date:Friday 13 January 2006
  • Duration:90 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Jeff Wadlow
  • Screenwriter:Jeff Wadlow, Beau Bauman
  • Cast:
    • Jon Bon Jovi
    • Jared Padalecki
    • Julian Morris
    • Lindy Booth
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