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** spoiler: Dodger's]] whole plan is a giant BatmanGambit.]]

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** spoiler: Dodger's]] Dodger's whole plan is a giant BatmanGambit.]]
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** [[spoiler: Dodger's]] whole plan is a giant BatmanGambit.

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** [[spoiler: spoiler: Dodger's]] whole plan is a giant BatmanGambit.]]

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* ForeShadowing: [[spoiler: Randhall basically tells almost everything we need to know about Owen's role in the film during the "Wolf creation" scene.]]

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* ForeShadowing: [[spoiler: During the "Wolf creation" scene Randhall basically tells almost everything we need to know about Owen's role fate in the film during the "Wolf creation" scene.]]film.]]


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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Twenty minutes before the movie ends, it's your typical teen slasher movie. Ten minutes, it's Film/AprilFoolsDay GoneHorriblyRight. At the very end, it turns out to be a film noir.]]
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* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Randhall basically tells almost everything we need to know about Owen's role in the film during the "Wolf creation" scene.]]

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* Foreshadowing: ForeShadowing: [[spoiler: Randhall basically tells almost everything we need to know about Owen's role in the film during the "Wolf creation" scene.]]
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* ShoutOut: Dodger's ICQ nick is revealed to be BoPeep05 - an obvious reference to [[IronicNurseryRhyme nursery rhyme]] Little Bo Peep who "has lost her sheep". Which alludes to the "Wolf and Sheep" game they played. [[Or to her being AWolfInSheepsClothing.]]

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* ShoutOut: Dodger's ICQ nick is revealed to be BoPeep05 - an obvious reference to [[IronicNurseryRhyme nursery rhyme]] Little Bo Peep who "has lost her sheep". Which alludes to the "Wolf and Sheep" game they played. [[Or [[spoiler: Or to her being AWolfInSheepsClothing.]]
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* ShoutOut: Dodger's ICQ nick in the very beginning is revealed to be BoPeep05 - an obvious reference to [[IronicNurseryRhyme nursery rhyme]] Little Bo Peep who "has lost her sheep". Which alludes to the "Wolf and Sheep" game they played.

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* ShoutOut: Dodger's ICQ nick in the very beginning is revealed to be BoPeep05 - an obvious reference to [[IronicNurseryRhyme nursery rhyme]] Little Bo Peep who "has lost her sheep". Which alludes to the "Wolf and Sheep" game they played. [[Or to her being AWolfInSheepsClothing.]]
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* ShoutOut: Dodger's ICQ nick in the very beginning is revealed to be BoPeep05 - an obvious reference to [[IronicNurseryRhyme nursery rhyme]] Little Bo Peep who "has lost her sheep". Which alludes to the "Wolf and Sheep" game they played.
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* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Randhall basically tells almost everything we need to know about Owen's role in the film during the "Wolf creation" scene.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Seriously, [[spoiler: Mr.Walker. Trying to attack an extremely unsettled gun-armed kid certainly wasn't the wisest decision. Even more so given that Owen was seemingly very reluctant to shoot, and a calm conversation could have helped.]]
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* FalseRapeAccusation: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Owen - if Mr. Walker gets accused of it, he ''will'' be fired, no matter if there's any evidence at all or not.
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* EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Dodger]]

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* [[spoiler: EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Dodger]]Dodger]]
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It involves a bunch of teenagers who, after hearing of the death of someone near their posh private school, decide to do a hoax serial killer story. Then things start to awry when the main hero, Owen, gets mysterious messages from his IM account, claiming that the serial killer is here and ready to strike again...

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It involves a bunch of teenagers at a secluded boarding school who, after hearing of the death of someone near their posh private school, rumors about a local murder, decide to do play a hoax mass prank of sorts, using common SlasherFilm tropes to invent a serial killer story. Then things start to awry when and spread fear throughout the main hero, Owen, gets mysterious campus. It turns out the joke's on them, as they begin to receive threatening messages from his IM account, someone claiming that to be the serial killer is here and ready to strike again...
they invented.
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* TheChessmasterTheChessmaster: Owen makes a hobby of it. [[spoiler:He's an amateur compared to Dodger.]]

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* BatmanGambit: Owen pulls this on Mr. Walker, and the patsies are the administration.

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* BatmanGambit: BatmanGambit:
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Owen pulls this on Mr. Walker, and the patsies are the administration.administration.
** [[spoiler: Dodger's]] whole plan is a giant BatmanGambit.
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The film contains a top-drawer performance from Lindy Booth as a [[FilleFatale sexpot schoolgirl]]. The movie also features Julian Morris, Jon Bon Jovi, Gary Cole and Jared Padalecki.

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The film contains a top-drawer performance from Lindy Booth as a [[FilleFatale sexpot schoolgirl]]. The movie also features Julian Morris, [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi, Jovi]], Gary Cole and Jared Padalecki.
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* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Dodger gets everything she wants, exactly as she planned it.]]

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* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Dodger gets everything she wants, exactly as she planned it.]]



* [[spoiler: DeceasedFallGuyGambit]]

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* [[spoiler: DeceasedFallGuyGambit]]%%* DeceasedFallGuyGambit
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* DawsonCasting: Lindy Booth was in her mid-20s.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Contrary to what the marketing would have us believe, ''Cry_Wolf'' is not a slasher movie, and its lack of graphic violence is [[JustifiedTrope justified]].

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* NeverTrustATrailer: Contrary to what the marketing would have us believe, ''Cry_Wolf'' is not a slasher movie, movie (though it does intentionally employ many tropes of the genre), and its lack of graphic violence is [[JustifiedTrope justified]].justified]]. Most of the footage in the trailer is not in the movie at all and is in fact contradictory to the movie.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lindy Booth. ''BigWolfOnCampus'' fans will remember her as "Charlotte" from the episode ''Pleased to Eat You''.

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''Cry_Wolf'' is a somewhat obscure PG-13–rated horror film from 2005 that didn't do well at the box office. Despite this, the film did somewhat well on DVD.

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''Cry_Wolf'' is a somewhat obscure PG-13–rated horror film from 2005 that didn't do well at the box office. Despite this, the film did somewhat well on DVD.
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* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler: Dodger's]] plan would have fallen apart instantly had any number of perfectly likely things happened.



* XanatosRoulette: [[spoiler: Dodger's]] plan would have fallen apart instantly had any number of perfectly likely things happened.
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''Cry_Wolf'' is a somewhat obscure PG-13–rated horror film from 2005 that didn't do well at the box office.

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''Cry_Wolf'' is a somewhat obscure PG-13–rated horror film from 2005 that didn't do well at the box office.
office. Despite this, the film did somewhat well on DVD.



* CryingWolf

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* CryingWolfCryingWolf: The film carries the tagline "You lie, you die."
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* WrongGenreSavvy: It's only at the very end that it becomes clear [[spoiler: this isn't a slasher film. It's a film noir.]]

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* WrongGenreSavvy: WrongGenreSavvy: It's only at the very end that it becomes clear [[spoiler: this isn't a slasher film. film. It's a film noir.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: It's only at the very end that it becomes clear [[spoiler: this isn't a slasher film. It's a film noir.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Dodger gets everything she wants, exactly as she planned it.]]
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* ProductPlacement: AOL, Chrysler and [[EveryoneOwnsAMac Apple]].

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* ProductPlacement: AOL, Chrysler and [[EveryoneOwnsAMac Apple]]. Justified, in the case of Chrysler, as the film was financed as part of contest. The story can be found on the DVD extras.
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* {{Homage}}: The scene where [[spoiler:Dodger pretends to drown in the pool]] is a clear homage to ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}''.

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* {{Homage}}: The scene where [[spoiler:Dodger pretends to drown in the pool]] is a clear homage to ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}''.''Film/FridayThe13th1980''.
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* [=~What the Hell, Hero?~=]: Happens quite often to Owen, who is both genuinely likable and highly amoral. He could be a MagnificentBastard, but, as Dodger tells him, he's "too nice."

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* [=~What the Hell, Hero?~=]: WhatTheHellHero: Happens quite often to Owen, who is both genuinely likable and highly amoral. He could be a MagnificentBastard, but, as Dodger tells him, he's "too nice."
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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Lindy Booth. ''BigWolfOnCampus'' fans will remember her as "Charlotte" from the episode ''Pleased to Eat You''.

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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: Lindy Booth. ''BigWolfOnCampus'' fans will remember her as "Charlotte" from the episode ''Pleased to Eat You''.
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* {{Narm}}: Mr. Walker is played by [[BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]]. [[spoiler:He's killed by a shot through the heart, and you're to blame. Darling, you give love a bad name.]]
** [[{{Phelous}} Mr Porteous]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this with a fitting soundtrack.
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* XanatosRoulette

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* XanatosRouletteXanatosRoulette: [[spoiler: Dodger's]] plan would have fallen apart instantly had any number of perfectly likely things happened.

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