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2 January 2010 8:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

It's the first few days of 2010 (feels weird to write it), and I should probably be looking forward. But it so happened that my first movie of 2010 was something that didn't get nearly enough love or attention in 2009: the entirely fascinating British horror film Tormented, available for a couple more weeks On Demand from IFC Films. Fans of thoughtful, multifaceted horror should give it a try.

Part of the problem may have been that the most obvious way to describe the plot of the film makes it sound ass-boring: bullied kid commits suicide, proceeds to haunt his tormentors from beyond the grave. But the actual premise is quite a bit subtler and more interesting. The movie opens with Justine (the lovely Tuppence Middleton), Oxford-bound Head Girl at a wealthy English boarding school, giving a clearly well-intentioned eulogy for the dead kid. But we then quickly learn a few key »

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1 article from 2010