Cry Wolf (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by Jeff Wadlow
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Actor: Jared Padalecki, Jon Bon Jovi, Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Sandra McCoyDirector: Jeff Wadlow
Brand: NBC Universal
Writer: Jeff Wadlow
Producer: Beau Bauman
Writer: Beau Bauman
Producer: Bill Berry
Producer: David Bartis
Producer: Doug Liman
Producer: Gene Klein
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Movie Reviews of Cry Wolf (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Sexy Suspense Mystery With A Slashing Edge
Summary: 5 Stars
I went into "Cry_Wolf" without much advance knowledge, hoping perhaps for something in the general "Halloween"/"Friday The 13th" vein (movies that I love) but anticipating that it may well be more in the line of the somewhat lighter, often at least partially self-parodying, run of horror movies that followed "Scream" in the late 90s and that I was never all that into. It turned out to fall into neither category, landing instead on the mystery/suspense end of the spectrum. It does retain elements of both aforementioned veins, particularly the former. Of the latter, it's probably closest to something like "Urban Legend", which I though was among the better of its breed. There is some humor present, but it's not a parody, of itself or of anything else. The combination of the different veins resulted in one of moviedom's most pleasant surprises of 2005, a grand horror thriller that's sexy, engagingly suspenseful and cooly unpredictable.
Set in a posh private high school and centering on a group of friends who gather at night to engage in games of guessing, bluffing and deciphering, the 'Wolf' of the title is a fictitious creation of the group, at least at first. The players come up with him when they try to hoax the entire campus with fake emails revealing phony information that a recent, and seemingly random, murder in the woods outside town is the work of a serial killer called the Wolf, who moves from campus to campus across the country, beginning each reign of terror with the killing of a town citizen before setting in on the student population. The movie passes its biggest hurdle in that, despite the idiocy and bad taste of the kids using a real murder as the basis for their little joke, they surprisingly don't all come off as a bunch of highly unlikable schmucks who you don't care what happens to. A real figure matching the description of their invented 'Wolf' shows up - or does he? - and begins terrorizing certain members of the clique - or are they only pretending to be stalked to hoax their other friends? Keeps you guessing right through, with an ingenious ending that, in my view, can be taken either of two ways with equal credibility. "Cry_Wolf" was quite different from what I'd imagined it to be but actually none the worse for it, just taking a different route to become one of 2005's finest.
Summary of Cry Wolf (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
When the students at a prestigious prep school spread a hoax email about a serial killer, they start a game of terror and deception that has three rules: avoid suspicion, lie to your friends, and eliminate your enemies. But what starts as a joke soon turns deadly and now they find themselves victims of their own game! Starring: Julian Morris, Jared Padalecki, Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi, Gary Cole, Anna Deavere Smith, Jesse Janzen, Paul James, Sandra McCoy, Ethan Cohn, Kristy Wu Directed by: Jeff WadlowSimilar DVD Movies
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