Cry_Wolf
Movie2005·US·1h 30min

Cry_Wolf

Nobody believes a liar... even when they're telling the truth.

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Premiere
16
Sep2005
Box office×10.05
Budget$1M
Gross$10M
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Cry_Wolf (2005) is Jeff Wadlow's teen horror thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. At a posh boarding school, a clique of students plays a game built entirely on lying — whoever spins the most convincing fib wins the round.

When a young woman turns up murdered nearby, the group invents a fake serial killer they call The Wolf, complete with camo and an orange ski mask, and blasts out an email predicting who he'll kill next and how. It starts as a prank to see who's gullible enough to bite. Then the "victims" they named actually start dying, and nobody can tell where the lie stops. Julian Morris, Lindy Booth and Jared Padalecki lead, with Gary Cole and Jon Bon Jovi turning up in smaller roles.

The hook is the lying itself: trust no one, the audience included, and the closing twist rewrites everything you thought you'd figured out. The tagline says it best — nobody believes a liar, even when they're telling the truth. A tidy little misdirection movie for viewers who like getting played. Stream Cry_Wolf (2005) online on iFILM.

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