It is just so bizarre how little anyone really seems to remember Cry_Wolf. Like, it was a bad movie, and I’m not saying it was anything better than it was. But it was an at best mid-tier mid-2000s “slasher”… with Jon Bon Jovi in it. And that’s really weird, right? Both in the fact that Jon Bon fucking Jovi agreed to be in a pretty poorly written mid-2000s slasher and also that pretty much no one remembers it or talks about it.
And I know that 2000s Bon Jovi was nowhere near as famous as they were in the 80s or, hell, even 90s, but they’d reached a kind of eternally famous by that point where most people, at least in the states, have definitely heard one of their songs and most of that group have also heard the name. Like, maybe they got pushed aside for a lot of that decade because of how… much everything was, but they never completely disappeared and a lot of that backseating has been reversed by this point.
And this movie had Jared Padalecki in it, and Supernatural fans are Supernatural fans. But even they’ve never pulled this thing back up en-masse as, like, an early performance cult-following thing.
So both of those, mixed with the fact that it had an advertising campaign so big that AOL was in on it and created a game that doesn’t exist any more through their service, just… More people should remember this movie.
But most people just… don’t. It has a few more people mentioning it on here, and a lot of that does seem to be gifsets of Jared’s character and stuff like that, but that’s it. I’m honestly scared to check Twitter, and there is almost fuck all on YouTube. Most videos on there are from at least 13 years ago and are just clips of the movie and things like that. The most recent one I can find is the Dead Meat podcast from 4-5 years ago, along with a few clip/compilation videos from the past 2 years. That’s it. Even adding Bon Jovi to the search doesn’t give you anything else. I can only find two interviews of the cast talking about it and they both seem like clips of a larger thing, and not in the way interviews are normally cut up.
Like, I’m not saying it’s earned a bigger following or anything. I just need to see someone else acknowledge it. It’s been so forgotten that there are only 10 works for it on Ao3. I know Cry_Wolf is four years older than the site, but it’s also a movie with Jared Padalecki and Jon Bon Jovi in it. I actually checked how many works they have, not characters just the actual human men, to compare. It’s 15,380 and 641 respectively. Those are some big-boy numbers and the movie only cracked double-digits this year. Six of the Cry_Wolf fics are by three people, and I think one of those was written as a sort of joke.
I feel like I’m losing my mind. Like, obviously this movie exists, there is at least some evidence on the internet and I’ve watched the real fucking deal. I didn’t even like the fucking movie, I just feel like I’m losing my mind. I need someone to acknowledge that this thing happened, and that almost everyone who knew of it before was not, in fact, switched out with a double who has no knowledge of Cry_Wolf a few years ago. Because that’s what it feels like!
Just… This movie almost doesn’t exist anymore. And that is fucking weird.
