Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but even with zero nudity, zero gore,
almost zero blood, very little violence and maybe the lowest body count of any
slasher movie ever...if you can even call CRY_WOLF a slasher movie...I kinda
liked this movie. The biggest reason I liked it was the really hot red-haired
chick from the
DAWN OF THE DEAD
remake and
WRONG TURN
was the main girl, but also because it was fairly well-written, except for the
whole not being very violent bit.
A woman was recently murdered in the woods near a posh private high school. With
Halloween approaching, some of the students think the murder is funny and decide
to create a hoax mass email about how there's a serial killer called Wolf going
around the country from campus to campus killing students and this is just the
beginning of his reign of terror at Westlake Preparatory Academy. You can
probably see how this is going to go.
I'd never even heard of CRY_WOLF before I bought it for $1 at a local used
bookstore, but it wasn't bad and maybe even worth
two dollars! The cast wasn't too
annoying; the main chick is gorgeous; the story was entertaining even if it
wasn't original; the school backgrounds looked nice; the pace was quick; I got a
lot of laughs out of it...hell, give it a try and see what you think. It's at
least worth a watch for horror fans. The weirdest thing was even though it was
released in 2005 it looks like it was made in 1997.