"Cry Wolf," one of the many slasher flicks that have skirted under the radar in recent years, stars a little known cast and
features an even less known director, but is a surprisingly decent picture, as long as your not looking for scares.
"Cry Wolf" is about a group of high school kids at a prestigious private school who, starved for excitement and thrills devise a deadly hoax by spreading a rumor about a serial killer on campus. However, as they begin to get picked off one by one, one of them begins to suspect that someone has decided to take the hoax to the next level and make it a reality.
Starring Julian Morris and Lindy Booth, "Cry Wolf" is your pretty standard horror flick - teens start getting killed off one by one, no one believes the main character, et cetera, et cetera - at least on the surface. What "Cry Wolf" lacks in scares and thrills it makes up in cleverness, as the movie has a solid twist ending that makes its short 90-minute running time worth it. Okay, so "Cry Wolf" isn''t exactly "The Unusual Suspects," but it is smarter than most slasher flicks. Not like that says much.