Tormented

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Tormented

2009,

1h 31m,

Comedy/

Horror

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70%

33 Reviews

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5,000+ Ratings

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Darren Mullet (Calvin Dean) doesn't have it easy. He's overweight, uses an inhaler and is constantly bullied by his spoiled classmates. His suicide prompts Bradley (Alex Pettyfer), Darren's main tormentor, to host a wild party, where Justine (Tuppence Middleton) hooks up with Alexis (Dimitri Leonidas). With her entry into the school's popular group cemented, Justine figures life will be easy. But when Bradley and Alexis's friends start turning up dead, everyone starts to panic.

Critics Consensus

It relies too heavily on American slasher cliches, but Tormented is a timely, funny, and even somewhat touching entry in the high school horror genre.

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Edward Porter

The Times (UK)

May 28, 2009

3/5

Jon Wright's film delivers its shocks as efficiently as the average American equivalent. Its British jokiness makes it less scary than it perhaps could have been, but it gains more from this trade-off than it loses.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

May 22, 2009

3/5

It's diverting, occasionally moving, and has two secret weapons, teen heart-throb Alex Pettyfer and newcomer Tuppence Middleton.

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Nigel Floyd

Time Out

May 22, 2009

2/6

Solid storytelling, attractive cast and modish updates are let down by a lack of scares and jokes. IMHO not gr8, don't xpkt to LOL.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 30, 2023

1.5/4

Despite the movie’s negligible innovations, it’s little more than a familiar retread.

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Nikki Baughan

Roll Credits

Oct 30, 2019

3/5

[T]he energetic performances from the young actors keep the film moving on regardless, and the climax is both bloody and satisfying.

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

Nov 4, 2018

1/4

Tormented makes popular E4 drama Skins look like the work of Godard

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Luke S

Nov 1, 2017

This film falls into a category of film and television shows that answer violence with violence or abuse with abuse, or abuse with murder. Films like Some Kind of Hate, I Spit on Your Grave, and shows like Big Little Lies. The abuser is quickly and poetically disposed of, which is great to watch, while it lasts, but that's the problem. They offer instant gratification, nothing more. They clearly don't know how to respond to the abuser/tormentor/assailant in a meaningful way. In a way that will deliver real, long term justice to the abuser. It doesn't make the abuser understand, and if it does, they don't live long enough to be reformed. It's lazy. People watching, who suffer real, systematic abuse on a daily basis, are totally condescended to. It's beyond problematic. In the context of Tormented, Justine doesn't get framed because she was implicated-as such, she might not have slapped Darren around the cafeteria, but she didn't help him either, she gets framed because Darren was jealous. So in many ways, the victim becomes the bully, which is also a problematic and regressive outcome. Answering cruelty with cruelty is never the solution and the last outlet if one is searching for peace. You inevitably become part of the problem, perpetuating the cycle of violence and bullying.

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Poe W

Aug 9, 2017

Some of the most genuinely satisfying horror violence I've seen in recent memory. And I feel pretty morally justified in my satisfaction.

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Alex Pettyfer

Bradley

April Pearson

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Dimitri Leonidas

Alexis

Calvin A. Dean

Darren Mullet

Tuppence Middleton

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Synopsis

Darren Mullet (Calvin Dean) doesn't have it easy. He's overweight, uses an inhaler and is constantly bullied by his spoiled classmates. His suicide prompts Bradley (Alex Pettyfer), Darren's main tormentor, to host a wild party, where Justine (Tuppence Middleton) hooks up with Alexis (Dimitri Leonidas). With her entry into the school's popular group cemented, Justine figures life will be easy. But when Bradley and Alexis's friends start turning up dead, everyone starts to panic.

Director: Jon Wright
Producer: Cavan Ash, Tracy Brimm, Arvind Ethan David
Screenwriter: Stephen Prentice
Production Co: Screen West Midlands, Pathé, BBC Films, Slingshot Productions, Forward Films
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 20, 2017
Runtime: 1h 31m

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