Cry_Wolf

My girlfriend opted for a horror movie after we had spend a long and exhausting day in Hamburg. I thought the idea was good, as I still had a couple of them on my to-watch list. Just before starting to watch I had a quick chat with Garvin who expressed his commiseration and said we should rather skip it. As there is no such thing as skipping we went ahead with it anyways.

'Cry_Wolf' is subjected to be a horror/thriller as IMDB states it, this isn't true. In fact it is nothing more than a thriller, there really isn't anything horrorish about it. It's a movie in the style of the Scream movies, but far far worse. While in the 'Scream' movies it usually was fun to keep guessing who the murderer is, 'Cry_Wolf' jerks you around so often that you just stop caring at all in a very early stage of the movie. This by defenition is the worst thing that can happen to a movie like this. Right from the start the movie builds itself up on something that tells the audience that no matter what will happen through the next hour, you can't trust anything.

Whenever something like this happens, it's not much fun anymore to guess who the bad guy is, because it could be anyone and in the end probably the most ridiculous explanation will be used to uncover him. Another problem I repeatedly ran into while watching 'Cry_Wolf' was obviousness, many of the small happenings of the movie were so obvious that they actually managed to annoy me. I mean if you aready have confused your audience to a level so high that it doesn't care anymore, why make the use of so many cliches?

Garvin said (german) that he did enjoy the cast somehow, well I'd say it was good enough to not sick out in a bad way. I also didn't think that the movie did not annoy its audience, because it did. We wasn't really upset when it ended but surely annoyed and bored to have seen another absolutely useless movie with no reminder value whatsover.