The best thing about i can say is that it exploited to a T the hysteria surrounding cyberbullying in the Late 2000's-Early 2010's as did many a god awful lifetime movie. Other than that, it looks like the majority of the £700,000 budget made its way onto the screen which is more than what i can say for the content of this past Summer's blockbuster exhibition of turd. Tormented is the kind of film that made me dread getting into slashers. The sub-genre went through SOME growing pains, starting off as Movie brat era career stepping stones and Major Six shortcuts to meeting revenue quotas in towards over exposure and then a fake resurgence passing itself off as Meta when it was really just a case of filleting a dead horse. Tormented comes from the tail end of such filleting when bone only remained and therefore the film wears such bones like a necklace proclaiming to be a throwback instead of a toneless mess which veers from patches of bleak to explosions of camp, and i wanna die thinking that someone found this funny or even remotely engaging. The film shows no discipline, so why should we exercise some to give it the benefit of the doubt? It's not exactly micro-budget and it reeks of the inmates taking over the asylum as director Jon Wright clearly didn't keep a leash on his cast, who go into business for themselves in that atypically British way and do what comes natural instead of what the script required. And if naturalistic performances was what was required by the script, then it was a dog to begin with anyway. A slasher/supernatural hybrid combined with edgy E4 theatrics. I f****ng gag. Maybe it's just me. The styles just don't blend. The antiquated and expected clashing sloppily with the contemporary and the aggressive, American and English sensibilities that just don't find middle ground. As i'm not a pro critic, i have no problems telling you how i would make this film... Tormented should have gone either two ways: 1: Scrap the supernatural element and ritualistic kills for pure sex, violence and carnage. Portray a decadent, fascistic youth that the old rightfully should be afraid of. Cause who doesn't hate Nazis? Have a school based war or hooligan type film. Pure nihilism grounded by the bullying message, some la resistance sort of protagonists and the like instead of colouring all characters different shades of grey. Plus, the picture wouldn't have to be fighting against that desire to be 'fun' and be a film about 'today's kids'.2: Actually be fun and forget the problems of the real world. Embrace artifice and focus solely on atmosphere and elaborate kills. Sure, bullying can still be the crux of the narrative, but don't be so heavy handed. I'd still hate the film as i despise horror comedies, but at least it would be a solid approach and i can appreciate such a thing. Tormented is just another meandering genre film that gone and went for broke and ended up doing just that. There are just too many jarring elements from more focused productions for a weathered cineaste such as myself to ignore and see the film for what it could have been than what it was. Here, i'm just annoyed.

Seriously, this really has to be one of Alex Pettyfer's worst films. He should've have bothered his arse to get involved in this film, its absolutely rubbish! I know I'm a girl but honestly, some of the girls in this acted so bitchy and stupid. I know this is set at a secondary school but come on man, they need to be better than that! The acting was horrible anyway so what makes it even more worse!The story was poorly done, it had to be done by a person who hasn't a clue about writing a better high school horror movie. This should've been scrapped, it is truly awful! Thats all I can say really, I wont give it good credit, no way!

Short and sweet review.So there are have been numerous cases of teen suicide in the news over the last few years. No one likes bullies, but does that make it okay to murder them in cold blood.The characters: The characters were alright, they seamed to bully just because they saw it as a joke. They weren't psychotic, or evil. They were just stupid kids having "fun". Justine was a half way decent character, she was hurtful without realizing it. Marcus was somewhat likable idiot. Bradley reminded me Travis Van Winkle, you know he always plays the douche bag, they were almost identical. And that's all I remember of them.The Mullet: Now this guy comes off as more of a psychopath. From what I made of this character, he was a creeper. He seamed to have an unhealthy obsession with Justine, even though clearly he should leave it alone and be contempt with his situation. Teens don't understand that being bullied in high school is awe full, but it will pass. I doubt he would have got over it with his introverted and shy way of being. Kids see him as a easy target, I don't know, maybe he should have done something about it. I don't understand teenagers, so I don't know what I am trying to say without offending sensitive people. Be tough, is all I can say.People knew better than to mess with me, where as if people messed with a weaker person, they would have no resistance. You gotta be one MEEANNN Mutha to make it in these type of situations.The theme: So the theme is, if your being bullied, fantasize about how you'll kill them. I mean, these bullies were clearly terrified the whole time. Teach them a lesson, assert dominance, don't brutally stalk and murder them. I never faced bullying, so I can't speak for the subject.Overall, the movie poorly made, especially about such a touchy and serious subject matter. The film is too comedic and upbeat, it doesn't work or convey any positive message. And quite possibly made by someone who experienced such treatment, and had such thoughts.

A teenage boy commits suicide after being the victim of cruel bullies . A few days later after his funeral mishaps start striking his schoolmates . Are these in retaliation for the boys suicide ? After all the dead stay dead or do they ?After reading the premise I thought this film was going to be THEATRE OF BLOOD the 1973 black comedy starring Vincent Price crossed with the 2003 Gus Van Sant drama ELEPHANT . Instinctively you feel this is how the film should have been developed . It deals with the themes of bullying and revenge subjects that should be treated with total respect . Instead we get a film that doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind what it's trying to do as in often the case in British cinema This extends to the whole tone of the film . It could certainly be described as Anti-ELEPHANT but that's because director Jon Wright goes out of his way to show the audience that he's been to film school and knows all about rapid cross cutting edits and ramping . If the audience are in danger of getting bored then he inserts what is effectively a pop video montage . To be blunt less would have been much more and he could have developed the story much better by being less frenetic with the editing and camera work . I take it the intended market for TORMENTED was angst ridden teenagers but I like to credit the youth of today , yesterday and tomorrow with more intelligence . If they want a pop video there's MTV and I'm speculating if they visit the cinema they want to see a story told in the language of cinema same as everyone else does On the subject of youth the cast are ... well how can I put it . You know when you watch a Tom Cruise movie and he's playing a shallow self centered character and he doesn't pull it off because he's perhaps much to nice to manage ? That's the exact same impression I got with the cast here . No doubt they were fantastic company and a pleasure to work with and exemplary role models for teenagers everywhere but at portraying cruel , sadistic foul mouthed bullies intent on making their peers life hell they never convince for a moment . Compare them to the cast of say SCUM and you'll notice a big difference TORMENTED is a rather mediocre film . One should always applaud a film from Britain that isn't ashamed to be a commercial hit and a film trying to mix horror with humour and important topics can only be congratulated but TORMENTED doesn't really manage to do anything very well . I wanted to like it but didn't much