Cry_Wolf
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cry_Wolf |
| Original title | Cry_Wolf |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jeff Wadlow |
| script | Jeff Wadlow Beau Bauman |
| production | Beau Bauman |
| music | Michael Wandmacher |
| camera | Romeo Tirone |
| cut | Seth Gordon |
| occupation | |
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Cry_Wolf is an American horror film released in 2005 .
action
Owen, who has already flown out of several schools, now plans to graduate from Westlake Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school. There is a lot of excitement there right now because a student is missing.
Owen meets the perky Dodger and becomes friends with her. One night he is dragged by his roommate Tom into a hidden chapel in the forest, in which, in addition to Dodger, are the students Randall, Lewis, Mercedes, Graham and Regina. Owen learns that the friends call themselves a “club of lies” and play a game in which Dodger secretly identifies a wolf that the others have to expose. The gang, however, is rather disappointed when Owen easily wins the game because the others just know each other too well by now.
When the missing schoolgirl is found murdered a little later, Dodger comes up with an idea: the “Lies Club” invents a serial killer called “The Wolf” and puts an imaginary profile of him on the Internet. The friends make it look as if it is only a matter of time before “The Wolf” hits school again.
The rumor actually spreads like wildfire in the school and only the teacher Mr. Walker, where Owen and Dodger are attending a journalism class, suspects who started the rumor.
After a short time, Owen receives emails threatening that the game will soon become serious. Owen suspects that the girl's real killer is behind it. Suddenly Owens and Tom's room is devastated, Owen is attacked and shortly afterwards almost thrown from school because a knife is found in his backpack. But nobody believes the “club of lies” anymore.
When Owen finds out that Dodger, whom he fell in love with, and Mr. Walker are having an affair, he wants to end the game forever. At a nightly meeting of the friends in the band it turns out that they played the pranks on each other: it was Lewis who ravaged Owens and Tom's room, and Tom gave Owen the knife. But who wrote the threatening emails?
When the friends find Randall's body, it seems clear that a killer is after them after all. During the escape, the friends are separated and Owen has to watch as Dodger is killed. When he escapes into Mr. Walker's office, he finds a gun and the killer's utensils there. He finally shoots the teacher. In the next moment Dodger joins them unharmed. It turns out it was all just a prank and both she and Randall are alive and well. The friends only wanted to take revenge on Owen for his superior victory in the wolf game in the hut.
Owen is arrested for the murder of Mr. Walker, but it turns out that the teacher was having an affair with the murdered girl who was shot with the gun Owen found in Mr. Walker's office. Owen seems to have killed a killer in self-defense. Owen's relief soon gives way to a terrible realization: all of this was only engineered by Dodger, who wanted to get revenge on Mr. Walker for cheating on her with the other girl. In truth, Dodger killed the girl, blaming her lover and getting Owen to kill him. But nobody believes Owen the truth.
background
With a budget of $ 1 million, the film grossed $ 10 million in the United States and reached number 5 in the box office. In Germany, the film only made it to very few cinemas and flopped. Even so, the film grossed over $ 5 million outside of the United States and Canada. With revenues of $ 15,585,495, Cry Wolf can be considered a commercial success.
The English term cry wolf in a figurative sense means something like sounding a false alarm, according to the German proverb whoever lies once is not believed, even if he speaks the truth.
The Lies Game is a simplistic version of Mafia or The Werewolves of Mirkwood .
Reviews
Lisa Rose ( Newark Star-Ledger ): " Cry_Wolf is not scary."
Kevin Thomas ( Los Angeles Times of September 17, 2005): "A clever thriller with a confused plot, elegant performances by the ensemble and an ironic twist at the end."
Web links
- Cry Wolf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cry Wolf at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cry Wolf at Metacritic (English)
- Film review at F.LM - texts on the film
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 / PG-13 - Unrated by Cry Wolf at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cry_Wolf (2005)
- ↑ Film review by Kevin Thomas, accessed on September 19, 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
