Cherry Falls [2000]

Product Details

Director : Geoffrey Wright
Actor : Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Jesse Bradford, Candy Clark
Format : Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5017239190599
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2001-02-19
Running Time : 87minutes
Studio : Entertainment in Video

ASIN : B000056N4P

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

Cherry Falls, the eponymous small town in Cherry Falls, has some dirty secrets--secrets that come to light when a psychotic killer starts killing teenagers. But the killer has an unusual criterion: only virgins are marked for death. Cherry Falls is a striking movie that never got released in cinemas, probably because marketers didn't know what to do with it. It's not a winking, smirk-while-you-shriek twist on the genre like Scream, nor is it a broad parody like Scary Movie--instead, Cherry Falls tries (and largely succeeds) at trying to turn the clichés of slasher movies into something that will do more than make you jump in shock. It's still scary; few things are creepier than wandering the empty hallways of a high school after hours, and Cherry Falls takes full advantage of that. It's also often funny, mostly because the mechanics of a slasher movie have become just a little too much and you can't help laughing. But it also makes you think twice about attitudes towards sex--moments such as parents breaking into a brawl while talking about their children's sex activity, or an "experienced" girl's pep talk to an assembly of girls eager to lose their virginity, are both funny and caustic. Brittany Murphy (Clueless, Girl, Interrupted) shines as the sheriff's daughter caught in the middle of it all; Michael Biehn (The Terminator) is great as the earnest sheriff who knows more than he lets on; and Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire) smoothly handles the part of a teacher with an unhealthy interest in Murphy. Cherry Falls doesn't tell you when it's funny or scary, which makes many viewers uncomfortable. But if you're interested in watching a slippery, layered examination of sexual attitudes that is also a successful, spooky slasher flick, then this movie is for you. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Not what it says on the tin (2008-05-02)

This movie is marketed as a horror/ black comedy however i didn't find the film funny however i did really enjoy the film its an entertaining horror with out relying on special effects. This film is very overlooked i only came across it on amazon by accident, if you feel like watching a horror this is quite refreshing.

Give it a go, you never know you might like it (2008-01-04)

This is one of my fave horror films, partly because I actually cared about some of the characters enough to hope that they didn't wind up dead!It's your usual "slasher killer in a small town targeting the teens" but the twist is that all the victims are virgins and they're dispatched in quite gruesome ways. The surviving kids decide that they're going to hold a party where they can all lose their virginity and stay safe. Brittany Murphy is the main lead trying to stay alive and find out what the connection is between her dad, who's the local cop, and a woman who vanished mysteriously years before. If you're after MENSA type material then yes, you're going to be disappointed, but if you take it for what it is, which is an entertaining slasher film, with some black humour moments and a few attractive looking teens (who can act, which is always a bonus!) then you won't be disappointed. I didn't guess who the killer was but I never do!

NOT BAD (2007-08-12)

At first sight, "Cherry Falls" is one of the many harmless teen slashers that came out in the late 90s and early 00s in what was called "the horror revival" started by "Scream" back in 1996. While the movie can't hide the trademarks of its generation and it is definitely not very original, it offers some new twists to traditional clichés of the genre and a higher quality than the rest of the slashers of its time. Also, it is fair to point out that the movie we know as "Cherry Falls" is not what its director, Geoffrey Wright, conceived originally. It suffered several cuts to attain an R-Rating losing most of its planned edginess.The story is set in the small town of Cherry Falls, where suddenly, a mysterious figure begins to kill the virgins in town. Sheriff Brent Marken (Michael Biehn) is specially concerned about the case not only because he knows that his beloved daughter Jody (Brittany Murphy) is virgin, but also because the case brings back memories of a dark event in Cherry Falls past. Meanwhile, the local teenagers organize a huge party to have sex and stop being potential victims.Written by Ken Selden, the story mixes dark comedy with the horror genre pretty much in the vein of Scream, using a clever twist to the genre cliché of the virginal survivors. The mystery of the killer's identity is very well handled and the story unfolds as Jody's investigation takes her to discover the town's past. Surprisingly, the movie never gets boring or tedious, and it serve sits purpose as a thrilling mystery/horror film.However, the film promises too much and there is never a proper payoff. Director Wright conceived his film as a comedy/horror about sex and violence in the genre, but the severe cuts the movie received took away all the sex and violence the director intended to portray, leaving an incomplete product that is really unsatisfying. This severely hurts the film, particularly at the finale, which is sad because it is really a very well crafted set-piece of nudity and violence that is badly edited to please the prudish MPAA.Geoffrey Wright follows a subtle style for the most part of the film, and according to the script, it was done that way because the killings were supposed to be gory. Again, with the edition of this it left the film incomplete with scenes that build up very good suspense without a payoff. The suspense is broken with badly edited cuts that lead to the belief that a lot was missing.The main cast is very good, particularly Jay Mohr as a concerned teacher who is truly worried about his students. Brittany Murphy is very good in the lead role is quite believable as a common teen girl (something not all slashers can say). The rest of the cast do a very good job but nothing really outstanding outside the leads."Cherry Falls" is a sad testimony of what further edition to a completed job can do. It certainly turned a promising great movie into an slightly above average horror film. Hopefully, a Director's Cut will be available someday but by now, "Cherry Falls" remains as a movie that could had been a lot better if it had remained true to its director's vision.

Pretty good (2004-02-29)

This film is okay. Brittany Murphy's good in it, as is Jay Mohr as the teacher with a really weird name. In fact, Jay Mohr's the reason I first saw it. Its funny, in places, but theres not much suspense or anything that scary going on. Its good to watch if you want something mind-numbing, yknow, something you dont have to think about too hard.

Utterly useless (2002-02-10)

The problem I had with this film was that the first half ran far too quickly. It was little more than a montage of flash-frame murders of people we had barely been introduced to. Add this to the fact that the killer's identity wasn't exactly a secret, and you get a film which, by the time it gets to the money shots (the orgy sequence and the flashbacks at the end), means absolutely nothing to you because you don't know or care about the people involved.

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