Cruel World

2005

Comedy / Drama / Horror / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 1581 1.6K

psychopath college snuff challenge revenge murder

Director

Kelsey T. Howard Photo
Kelsey T. Howard

Top cast

Jaime Pressly Photo
Jaime Pressly as Catherine Anderson
Aimee Garcia Photo
Aimee Garcia as Gina
Edward Furlong Photo
Edward Furlong as Philip Markham
Daniel Franzese Photo
Daniel Franzese as Claude Markham
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810.28 MB
1280*718
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 1
1.47 GB
1920*1078
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ace_of_Sevens 3 / 10

Damned by faint praise

Reviewed by Navajas 4 / 10

Edward Furlong eats the scenery like so many donuts...mmm...donuts...

Two brothers somehow sucker a bunch of young people into believing they're part of a reality game show in which they do whatever challenge the mastermind comes up with. Eventually it becomes apparent that the stakes are life and death, and the contestants start getting killed off, sometimes by each other.Perhaps the craziest part of this movie is Edward Furlong as the lead, Philip Markham, who overacts at every turn as he screams at the contestants from his control room, where he chain smokes and eats gas station food. His performance is not one of his finest, but given that he appears to be past his prime at this point, he does deliver something that is, at very least, entertaining (not always for the right reasons, though).As others have pointed out, Markham is a fairly lazy killer. Mostly he just yells a lot. It is often up to his simpleton brother, Claude, to carry out the dirty work for him.The big question is whether or not the flick is worth seeing. Well, for me, the movie came with four others in a small package that was located at the bottom of a bargain bin. Given what I paid for it, it wasn't too bad.
Reviewed by andrew_hepburn-663-457463 3 / 10

Not worth it...

First off I've watched a LOT of badly made cheap 'horror' films and this is not the worst I've seen. In fact, the plot is interesting, the acting reasonable and the dialogue could be worse. However, there are a number of faults with this movie that would prompt me to dissuade anyone from watching it. My biggest issue comes in the form of characterisation. The group of would be reality show stars starts off as a mixed bag of people with seemingly good representation of various ethnic/cultural groups, but, they are horrendously stereotypical e.g. the Asian contestant is the shy, intelligent one whilst the gay character generally fits in with many other movies' portrayal of the token joke character (whom we later find is also backstabbing and generally less decent than any other male character...figures). Furthermore, the story is often lacking in structure, the so-called tasks that contestants must face are not well thought through and this generally leads to boredom throughout. Overall I'd say this film started relatively well and ended much the same as any other cheap and tacky horror movie, I wouldn't bother with this one again and to be honest wish I hadn't in the first place.
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