Tormented (2009)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Jon Wright

Writer:

Stephen Prentice (writer)

Release Date:

22 May 2009 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

A New Class of Terror

Plot:

A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates. |

Plot Keywords:

Teenager | Revenge | Male Rear Nudity | One Word Title | Male Nudity

Cast

Alex Pettyfer	...	Bradley
April Pearson	...	Tasha
Dimitri Leonidas	...	Alexis
Calvin Dean	...	Darren Mullet
Tuppence Middleton	...	Justine
Georgia King	...	Sophie
Mary Nighy	...	Helena
Olly Alexander	...	Jason
James Floyd	...	Nasser
Sophie Wu	...	Mai Lee
Hugh Mitchell	...	Tim
Larissa Wilson	...	Khalillah
Ruby Bentall	...	Emily
Tom Hopper	...	Marcus
Peter Amory	...	Head teacher

Runtime:

UK:87 min (DVD) | UK:91 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bishop Vesey School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

Company:

BBC Films

Trivia:

During the credits the song 'Lesbian Roadkill' is credited as being performed by Tantric Dwarf and being licensed by Crying While Wanking. This is in reference to the song being played by the character Nasser in the film. The song was in fact written especially for the film by Christian and Joe Henson.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Helena asks Justine over to watch Atonement, but she instead goes on her 'date' with Alexis. When the scene cuts to Helena and Emily watching the film, its actually The Duchess.

Not funny, not clever, not good.

A truly laughable film from start to finish. I've never watched an episode of Skins but I'm told Tormented features several cast members, and it certainly hasn't made me want to check out Skins. Tormented basically follows a group of school bullies as one by one they get their just desserts at the hands of a boy they tortured into suicide who returns as an undead avenger.

There are a couple of good moments -the bullying scenes are quite affecting- but overall the script is simply appalling, a very straightforward and utterly unoriginal story which offers nothing new to comedy-horror and revisits old ideas badly. The acting is utterly, utterly laughable. I realise this isn't supposed to be Oscar-winning stuff, but I teach drama and I know kids who could wipe the floor with this pathetic bunch of teens.

Quite simply, this is unintelligent, unfunny and unimpressive. A million miles away from the worst film of all time, but certainly high up on the list of bad horror films.