Cruel World is a 2005 American independent horror comedy film starring Edward Furlong, Laura Ramsey, Daniel Franzese, Nate Parker, Brian Geraghty, and Jaime Pressly.

The film is about a psychotic man who loses a reality game show and subsequently kills the host.

[3] James Bowman of The New York Sun called it "a dreadful mess of a movie" that unsuccessfully tried to mix satire with horror.

[4] Bloody Disgusting rated it 2/5 stars and wrote that the boring kills failed to make up for the poor writing and execution.

[5] Scott Foy of Dread Central rated it 1/5 stars and called it "simply an abject failure any which way you cut it.

"[6] Mike Long of DVD Talk rated it 1.5/5 stars and wrote that the film had "an awesome concept" but "simply doesn't work.