The movie, 'Cry Wolf', circulated around the concept of deception. Just about everyone in the film lied or deceived another in some way. Deception begins in the very beginning of the movie where the main character, Owen, plays a game with some other students. The point of the game is to ‘Avoid suspicion, manipulate your friends, and eliminate your enemies.’

However the game becomes boring for the prep school students, and they decide to expand the game, playing with the whole school. They spread a lie through e-mail, that there’s a serial killer on the loose, called ‘The Wolf’, and he’s the one who murdered a local girl, a few weeks prior. But soon the lie becomes real for Owen when he starts getting IM’s from someone with the screen name ‘The Wolf’.

The viewer is also deceived throughout the film, as they are lead to believe that a teacher, Mr. Walker, is behind the murders. Owen ends up accidentally shooting him, after he is lead to believe that his friends were murdered. As the camera looks down onto the prone body of Mr. Walker, one of his ‘victims’ walk in, apparently horrified by the scene. As the ‘victims’ talk with the police, the viewer finds out that they had been playing a prank on Owen, and that it was all fake.

The movie ends with Dodger and Owen talking, as Owen realizes that it was Dodger who was the real murderer of the local girl, and that she had encouraged the advancement of the game so she could get Mr. Walker killed. He has overwhelming evidence of such, but the last line of the movie makes a fine point to both the characters and the audience. “Even if that were true, who would believe you?”

Like ‘Cry Wolf’ in the movie, ‘The Skeleton Key’, lies and deception are a key element. The main character, Caroline, is deceived from the beginning to the very end of the film.

Caroline is suspicious of the behavior of Violet Devereaux, especially after she finds a hidden, locked room in the attic, which Violet tells Caroline that she’s never been in. However, after Caroline gets into the room, and confronts Violet about the, what she discovers to be a hoodoo room, Violet reveals that she has been in the room, and the history of the house.

Caroline is further deceived in her mistake of trusting the Devereaux’s lawyer, Luke Marshall. But at the closing of the movie, she learns that he was allied with Violet. In a plot twist, Caroline realizes that it wasn’t Ben that Violet wanted to sacrifice, it was her all along.

The viewers are deceived yet again as they realize, “The thing people don’t understand about sacrifice; sometimes it’s more of a trade.”

Both movies show deception in their own way. In 'Cry Wolf', the antagonist was out to kill another character and used others to achieve this goal. On the other hand, in 'The Skeleton Key', the antagonist was looking for a new body to inhabit, so they could stay young forever.

However, there are similarities between the two. The antagonists in both films deceive others to get what they want. Not caring who has to get hurt in the process.

Everyone has lied to or manipulated others in their life. It doesn’t matter how good of a person they are. It’s human nature. I’ve lied and manipulated my parents so I can do things. Go online, go somewhere I wanted to go, get something I want, etc. But when you lie, it makes it hard for others to trust you anymore.

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'i won't lie anymore'...NOT!!!!

Jesus, i so effing HATE my parents! I had to lie to them about NOT lying to them!!! WTF?!?!?!?