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At Westlakes High, There's A New Game. Avoid Suspicion. Manipulate Your Friends. Eliminate Your Enimies.

I had bought this DVD a few years ago and watched it once, and remembered liking it. So why not watch it again and review it? The film picks up with Owen Matthews finding himself lost at his new school (prep academy type school) and meeting his first new friend, Dodger, who is a rebellious redhead. After exchanging a few words with her, classes let out and swarm them, so that ends the conversation basically. Now, keep in mind, I skipped past the VERY FIRST scene of the film, but I'll get back to that. Later that night, while Owen is sleeping, his roommate wakes him up and invites him to play a game.

Owen declines, that is, until his roommate tells him that Dodger, the pretty redhead, wanted him to come. He shows up, and learns about the oh so cool game they play. It consists of randomly picking a target, and the rest of them have to figure out who that target is. Now, at the VERY beginning of the film we see a female get hunted down in the woods, and shot. So after playing the game, the group gets bored with it, and decides to scare up the school via email. How do they do this? Making it seem like that murder was one of many, and that the killer could be right there on campus.

Well it's all fine and dandy, that is, until someone takes it too far, and begins killing them off one by one. Pretty cool huh? I'll admit, the premise sounds kind of cheesy, but it's really not. I enjoyed the film alot the first time I watched it, and I enjoyed it just as much my second time watching it nearly 3 years later. Jeff Wadlow, who was the winner of the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Competition, took that prize money and made this in what is basically his feature film debut. Most non-horror fans will know him as the director of Never Back Down.

The characters are very well developed in this film, and you really get a feel for them. We get to learn alot about them, and the ones that we don't, are pretty self explanatory. The film also has a solid story, which later unravels into a really good twist that M. Night Shyamalan only wishes he could pull off. Well, I won't go that far, but close. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that as much as you might think this movie would suck, it really doesn't. It's definately worth watching, and even buying. I can't rate this film as high as I'd like to, as that would put it on the same level as some of my favorites, but don't let that turn you away from it. It still gets a 7/10.

Dood. Nice'un. Will check it.

Yea Cry Wolf was good, but kinda sad. The Movie made you feel for the characters! and I love that! :reading: