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

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2023

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2019

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

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 4, 2018

Under-exploring the big reveal of the murderer and dragging the set plays out a little too long, Tormented's early promise fails to pull home.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2010

A gruesome, edgy, ambitious, and sometimes funny horror tale that doesn't shy away from exploring adolescent cruelty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2009

By the end, "Tormented" is such a listless take on a potentially interesting idea that it feels like its own remake.

| Nov 6, 2009

There's a huge amount of respect for the horror side of things here as well. If it sounds like your cup of tea, then dive in as soon as you possibly can.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2009

It's well enough made, fairly inventive and the bullies practise safe sex. But the film tips its hand a little too early.

| May 28, 2009

The film does deliver a high gore quotient which should keep fans of the genre happy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2009

Brilliantly funny at times, it's well worth a look - even if the script is as holey as some of the bullies end up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2009

A smart, competent horror-com that's easily a match for its US counterparts.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 27, 2009

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 22, 2009

A for effort, C for artistry, this wayward teen of a movie is confusing, amusing and scary - a bit like school itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

The qualitative bar for execrable homegrown comedy-horror was recently set at ground level by Lesbian Vampire Killers, here is a movie so inept and ill-conceived that it manages to scrape a place for itself directly below that particular abomination.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 22, 2009

Despite its weaknesses, though, there's something appealing about Tormented. It may or may not portend a revival of popular British horror, but at least no one can mistake this for the grim compulsions of the torture-porn aficionado.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

There's enough vitriolic bitching among the bullying contingent to make Jon Wright's movie trashily entertaining up to a point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009

Any good horror film needs not only blood spattered deaths aplenty but a good murderer too. Tormented fails that test.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2009

What Tormented lacks in US gloss and glamour it more than matches in escapist fun, making it an enjoyable, if forgettable, ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2009