Brum bullies.

Byline: Roz Laws

IN A Birmingham graveyard, a bullied school pupil rises from the dead to take his very gruesome revenge on his tormentors.

Watch out for decapitations, detached eyeballs, a fence post through the head, bleeding ears and hands chopped off.

Welcome to the latest film to be made in Brum - a gory teenage slasher flick, very violent for its certificate but, in places, quite entertaining.

Filmed at Bishop Vesey and Streetly schools in Sutton Coldfield, the movie opens at St Peter's Church in Harborne, at the funeral of Darren Mullet (Calvin Dean).

Darren was the victim of relentless bullies who called him Shrek. Unable to take any more punishment, he hanged himself.

Prim head girl Justine (Tuppence Middleton) gives a eulogy at his funeral but is forced to admit she never even noticed him.

She gets to let down her knee-high white socks when she's asked out by Alexis (Dimitri Leonidas). Through him she starts hanging out with the cool gang in school, led by Bradley (Alex Pettyfer) and Tasha (April Pearson).

She soon forgets her geeky old friends, but comes to realise just how nasty her bitchy new crowd can be.

They start receiving threatening texts from Darren, seemingly from beyond the grave, before dying in grisly ways.

Look out for a couple of familiar faces among the adult cast -

tormented (15) Sandra Dickinson as a flighty art teacher and Emmerdale star Peter Amory, without his wheelchair, as the head teacher There are quite a few holes in the plot. Where the parents, reporting their missing children? Tormented has an important issue at its heart, that victims of cyber bullying can't even escape at home because of texting, email and internet. Unfortunately any serious theme is soon forgotten as increasingly illogical plot descends into a blood bath.

What starts creatively and wittily becomes ridiculous, not to mention physically impossible. By the end it all makes very little sense.

Despite its flaws, Tormented is far more watchable than this other release about violent youngsters, Awaydays. It's filmed better, has some pretty good performances and natural dialogue.

But it does suffer by comparison in one aspect.

It's very clear thatAwaydays is filmed on theWirral, with plenty of shots of the sea and docks.

But Tormented, partly funded by Screen West Midlands, isn't a advert for Birmingham. It's a missed opportunity to promote city - you'd never know, unless you knew the locationswell, that was made in Brum. And that's a shame..