Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The first must-see film of the year.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

(2%) A film highlighting one of the biggest problems with certain low-budget British cinema in that it lacks both ambition and ideas. The school "kids" are all clearly 24 which at least in American slasher films the students don't wear uniforms, but here they do and it just looks as if they are all going to a fancy dress party as the same theme, it's awful. The writing is dire, the characters are from another world as they behave and talk like no real human beings actually do, and the mix of American elements thrown in from time to time just doesn't work and only further hampers the already broken reality in which this is set. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the real kids from the school in which this was shot (clearly during summer break) couldn't make a better film themselves.

Tormented is directed by Jon Wright and written by Stephen Prentice. It stars Alex Pettyfer, Sophie Wu, April Pearson, Calvin Dean, Dimitri Leonidas and Tuppence Middleton. Music is by Paul Hartnoll and cinematography by Trevor Forrest. A bullied teenager at Fairview High School takes his own life but appears to have come back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.I personally did not enjoy this film, the characters felt underdeveloped and unlikable and the plot was poorly written and predictable. I came into this film hoping for a charming British horror comedy reminiscent of Shaun of the dead but instead I got a soulless clone of a film. The characters where cheesy American stereotypes with the average jocks, nerds and sluts.My main problem with the film was the fact that it achieved neither horror nor comedy. The characters where so out of touch and unlikable it was impossible to care whether they lived or died. In terms of comedy this film is poor as well it was almost like the jokes were written by someone at the CBBC and then they just added a in a few swearwords to make it seem more mature.However i do feel that the special effects were done well for a low budget film and the deaths where gory and creative. And the plot, despite the fact that it was predictable was, at least easy to follow.To conclude i would not recommend watching this film there are plenty of other films in this genre that do a much better jobs of both the horror and comedy aspects. So unless you are unbelievably bored please stay away from this film.

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.

Being a fairly low budget film I thought it did quite a good job and had the potential to be quite successful. Some of the deaths were very creative and made you want to look away due to the gore of it. It was typical overweight, asthmatic school boy that was being bullied and it also makes the more popular people who might bully people think about it before they do it again if the movie actually got to them. I also liked the music soundtrack and thought that it was well thought into. It appeals more to people that are between the ages of 15+ which is a lot of variety and was directed very well and also had some good comedic moments.The lack of an imaginative story line let the film down and I felt like it had the cliché film storyline. Some of the acting wasn't very convincing and the film was trying to be serious at some points but you couldn't help but laugh at it, for example when Darren sat on Sophie with his swimming goggles on and just looked at her as she drowned was just too funny to be took seriously and I was laughing at it definitely more than I should have been. It also gets a bit silly when he sends texts messages at the start. Even after the deaths of Sophie in the pool and Marcus getting his head put through a spike the school stays open which is very strange to me.Overall I think the film was certainly not rubbish but I wouldn't say I liked it enough to want to go out and buy it on DVD or go out of my to see it when it on television or on my computer. The twist at the end of the story was clever because he didn't kill Justine, he framed her. Also the story was non-linear which added a spark of interest because you want to know what happened to get to that stage in the story. I would give it a good word if someone asked me about it and I would recommend it to some people that I thought would like it.7/10