Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

cheryllaber I did not like this movie at all, I think there could have been written a lot better. It was so dark that I was wanting to give a flashlight to the actors. How can you watch something when you can't even see it? On to the next movie.

Michael Ledo Jo (Kierney Nelson) breaks up with her boyfriend Ben (Dakota Morrissiey) because he cheated on her with someone who has normal eyebrows. Ben attempts to apologize profusely, but Jo wants none of it. When some clown (J.T. Chinn) kidnaps Elliot (Matthew Weidle) a child in Jo's care, it seems Elliot's mom won't accept Jo's profuse apologies. I liked this element of the film with the tables being turned...that and the gratuitous shower scene.Other than that, the film lacks. The characters were flat. The cops were unconvincing. Dakota Morrissiey was pathetic by design. Our bad guy was a partial mystery, although there weren't any other suspects. He really didn't have much character. It looks like they spent their budget on toy monkeys with cymbals. Not as good as that other ice cream truck killer film series.Guide: F-bomb. No sex Nudity (Kierney Nelson

Desertman84 Writer/Director Robert Henderson provides us a horror TV movie entitled "Kruel".It stars Kierney Nelson, Dakota Morrissiey, Adam Vernier and J.T. Chinn.Together,they tell a story about psychotic ice cream vendor that disguises himself in order to get close to the women that he is attracted to.But unfortunately,he is actually a psychotic and mentally disturbed killer.Ben and Jo just broke up after the former admit to the latter that he cheated.This makes it hard for Jo to forgive her boyfriend.While Jo was working as a babysitter,Ben visits her unexpected.As they got focused on each other,one of the children that Jo is watching has evidently got lost.The police tried to search for the missing child but to no avail.Unexpectedly,Ben and Jo try to look for him just like the police did but unfortunately,they are led to a crazy ice cream vendor who is up to no good.No question that the story was definitely simplistic.What made it worse is the performances of the leads namely Kierney Nelson and Dakota Morrissiey. The former played Jo and the latter played Ben.Too bad that they were somewhat amateurish.It was evident that both still are new to acting when this TV movie was made.Overall,it was a poorly produced TV movie.

ASouthernHorrorFan Robert Henderson's "Kruel" is a psychological thriller with hints of horror in one intensely drawn nightmare. Unfortunately though, It is a horror film without any horror. Yeah I know that that statement is argumentative considering the subject matter, but I didn't feel that "Kruel" had enough horror genre elements to be classified as a real horror movie. Now the story that Henderson has devised is captivating and deals with some very horrific realities of society. There is an antagonist that is creepy and nightmarish as all get out. The acting and direction that Robert Henderson takes with this film is stellar on almost all levels of story telling. It is dark, emotional, and often insanely intense. However the story stays in very dramatic, suspense thriller areas where character development and scene building reach a fevered pitch but never deliver any real heat. The special effects aren't really present in this "horror" film through 98% of the movie. It is all melodrama, high emotion dialog, and really cool scene transitions that combine with some very retro horror designed sounds. Only there is no real horror present. Everything stays suggestive or just not approached. Which sucks because had Henderson thrown in some noticeable giallo styled gore or graphic violence, then "Kruel" could have been a breakaway hit. Unfortunately everything stays pretty PG-13. There is one singe boob shot and one moment of gushing blood, but that comes "too little too late" for me personally. Overall I have to say that "Kruel" is going to disappoint almost all horror fans going into this film expecting anything other than a really emotional, dramatic story. As I have said-there is no real horror here. The subject matter is horrific, the drama is intense and the story is well written. It is all just a bit "Lifetime Movie Network Adjacent". I got the same experience while watching this film that I have gotten mistakenly watching a few of the church produced "horror films". Still the acting and story are pretty nice. Just wish that the film was marketed as psychological thriller or dramatic thriller, instead of Horror thriller.