Cry_Wolf (2005)

On Owen's first day at his post boarding school, he is immediately accepted by his new room-mate's clique.
When a dead girl shows up in the woods around the school, the group decide it would be funny to convince everyone that a serial killer is on the loose, and so they send an anonymous email about  a made-up serial killer "The Wolf" who, they claim, strikes boarding schools, killing a list of people in a specific order, starting with a townie (someone who doesn't go to the school) and then, come the full moon, different types of student.
Except, since sending the email, the kids start getting stalked by someone matching The Wolf's description... is it one of the group playing a joke? Has whoever killed the girl in the woods hear about the email and not taken to it kindly? or is it something else all together?
All we know for sure, is that next week is Halloween... and a full moon!

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I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Cruel Intentions in this entertaining teen-horror.

In the technical department, the movie is solid, but nothing spectacular, looking and sounding like any one of the teen-horror movies that flooded into theatres for around a decade after Scream, but like the best of those movies, the central mystery is where the movie shines.

We spend long enough with the characters before the shit hits the fan to get to know them. They pride themselves on their ability to deceive and manipulate (This is where the similarities to Cruel Intentions come into play) and because they're all as bad as each other, it helps keep the mystery going once the "real" serial killer starts to show himself.

Unluckily for the gang, they based The Wolf's typical victims on themselves, so once the full moon hits, the suspect list starts shrinking rapidly.

There's an obvious mislead, and a predictable twist where you might expect the story to end... but then there's another twist... and another... as is often the case in movies like this, there's perhaps a little too much Gambit Roulette at play, but the movie is enough fun to let that slide.

Unfortunately, there's not too much more I can say; the nature of these twisty stories makes them impossible to discuss without spoiling, but if you enjoyed the post-Scream wave, you'll enjoy this one.

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