Movie Review: Cry Wolf

I dragged a friend to lunch at the Old Bailey today. We had a couple of drinks with lunch before heading off to the movie. A few plot twists keep you thinking throughout the movie. It's pretty easy to guess the ending but I mainly watched it for Jared Padalecki (Sam from Supernatural) - what a spunk!

Plot: After one too many incidents of bad behaviour at his last school, Owen Matthews arrives at Westlake Prep – where a young woman has recently been found murdered in the dark woods near the boarding school’s campus. Owen quickly falls in with the school’s unofficial “Liars’ Club”, including the beautiful and savvy Dodger and quick-talking, short-tempered Tom. At Owen’s suggestion, his new friends decide to expand their game’s reach beyond campus, by spreading an online rumour that a serial killer called “The Wolf” committed the recent murder and is planning to strike again. The mischievous group’s descriptions of “The Wolf’s” intended victims are based on the people they know best – each other. Only when the school’s journalism teacher, Rich Walker, warns the group about the kinds of predators that lurk on the Internet does Owen begin to regret sending their falsified story into cyberspace.

When the described “victims” suddenly start to disappear, Owen, Dodger and Tom are no longer able to determine where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone – or something – starts hunting the players themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real.