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 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

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

Tormented is a neat, stylish British horror film which, while not quite as resonant as last year's Eden Lake, still packs a punch.

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

It's sort of Grange Hill meets Friday the 13th, with Stephen Prentice's script going for laughs and larks amid the slaughter.

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

Friday The 13th meets St Trinian's in a jolly gory product that finally proves we Brits can make slick, silly high-school slashers too.

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

Tormented deserves a thumbs- up for its top young cast, its willingness to try something different, and for delivering a slew of fun, if hugely unfrightening, moments. So well done for, er, having a stab.

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

It doesn't bother much with establishing rules for its supernatural menace or stitching together set-pieces with anything but Sellotape, but it's consistently funny in a painful way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2009