Cry Wolf is truly toothless

A child-friendly certificate is never a good omen for horror fans and Cry Wolf is truly toothless. When Owen Matthews (Julian Morris) joins Westlake Prep boarding school he gets involved in a 'liars' club' - 'cos that's what teens do when they sneak out of bed at night: play word games. Not smoke. Or have sex.

But when he and his obviously too-old-for-school fellow pupils invent a school-stalking serial killer, his lies start to become very real.

Admittedly, there are a couple of super scares buried among the pizza dough dialogue and unimaginative soundtrack of this not-clever-enough Scream scenario. But the lame set-up fails to heed its own warning - cry wolf too often and nobody will care.

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Cert: cert12A