VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

daniel-mannouch 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.

Tss5078 After watching this film, I'm still not sure if the title, Tormented, refers to the students of the featured High School, or the audience that had to sit through this film. Tormented is one of these films that has a deeper meaning, but it takes it's message to such extremes, that it becomes completely obsolete. Tormented is actually an anti-bullying film, that features an obese teenager, that has committed suicide after years of abuse. Instead of focusing on the ones left behind, the story instead focuses on the popular kids, who continue to "torment" the kid after he's gone, that is until his ghost shows up looking for revenge. The story isn't the worst idea I've ever heard of, but the film was so fake and over the top that it just ruined all it's credibility. Tormented features a fully functional ghost, with emotions, who gruesomely kills people. The special effects that show him as a ghost and the ridiculous amounts of kool-aid blood, were just some of the worst I've ever seen. Magic Mike's Alex Pettyfer stars as the bully and much like the rest of the cast, is far too old to be playing a high school student. Films like this are low budget, and I understand they need a person of name in order to be recognized, but I've always felt that they should cast real teenagers, and give them a chance at breaking into the business, rather than have the roles played by actors that are pushing thirty! Tormented is exactly how you'll feel as this film plays to the lowest common denominator, assuming that only ignorant people are going to watch it. They'll do things like call the victim, Shrek and show goth kids who think it's cool that he killed himself. Tormented is not funny, scary, or anything but a complete waste of time.

qormi Pretty good revenge flick. Offs his tormentors one by one. The scariest was the girl who had her hands whacked. The characters weer real and when they all stared to unravel, it was gratifying. I think that beginning with the ending first hurt the integrity of the film. It should have been presented traditionally and the characters should have been fleshed out more, including the victim. All the information came at you too quickly, via conversation and the film was too fast-paced. It would have been a much better film if it was presented chronologically, the pace was slowed down, and the characters were given a chance to act more rather than rush from scene to scene. It seems like it was filmed during someone's lunch break. That said, however, the film was creepy enough and gory enough.

pimpdust30 I found the film was fairly average. I wouldn't go to the cinema to watch this film but it wasn't that bad. I also wouldn't recommend it to a friend unless they asked. I wouldn't pirate the film but somehow it wasn't that bad. The music was fairly good considering the low budget. The sound effects were slightly worse I thought but still alright considering the low budget. I found the film was dragged out a bit much in places. Also the low budget meant that the special effects that is for comedy reasons so that doesn't matter was even worse due to the low budget, a bit too bad for me. The film wasn't a very big hit at all. Some of the actors were average and some like the Emo kids were not very good actors and they played on their stereotype a little too much that it just bad. Other actors like the 'popular girls' also played their stereotypes too much and it was a bit boring. The film was very predictable in places like where they go to the graveyard, I think everyone that watched the film knew that Darren Mullet was going to be there and that he was going to kill them. My overall opinion of the film is that it's OK to watch in the background but it's not that great I don't really have a really strong opinion on the film in one way or the other.