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Cherry Falls Reviews

The film is audacious and thought provoking even in its sterilized state.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

Tragically eviscerated by the MPAA in a bloodletting that shames any of this underseen slashers extant kills, 2000s Cherry Falls has one of the best horror-movie hooks cinema has ever given us.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2022

Though marred by edits made to satisfy a post-Columbine world, Cherry Falls still manage to be one of the more effective (and funny) post-Scream slashers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

Just as the movie opened with intentional scares, it certainly ends with unintentional laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 29, 2020

Cherry Falls is never slick enough to hold the audience on the edge of their seats and the ropey plot quickly dooms the film to the so-bad-it's-almost-good-but-not-quite school of filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2019

While it's not a classic, it still tries for an unorthodox and original slasher entry and hits more times than it misses.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 6, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A clever idea done with grimy flair. But not for horror movie virgins.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2003

It aspires to be another Heathers or Rivers Edge, but doesn't make it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 30, 2001

The slasher movie where it PAYS to be promiscuous!

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2001

Cherry Falls sticks to the tried and true formula, bringing to mind words like adequate or functional.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 20, 2001

Written for people who prefer their sex and violence with a side order of intelligence.

Full Review | Original Score: 72/100 | Feb 14, 2001

Stylish, suspenseful, and unusually intelligent for a genre movie, Cherry Falls is an excellent example of how to make a horror movie right.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It becomes a balance between gory and very silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A stylish and forthright slasher pic that knows what it wants, knows how to get it, and gets us hooting in the aisles like the bloodthirsty fiends we really are.

Mohr is as fun as ever, and Biehn hogs the standout scene with fantastically bad, tongue-in-cheek gravitas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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Cherry Falls Review

25 Aug 2000

Cherry Falls

At one point during Cherry Falls, a nubile teen screams, "It's a hymen holocaust!", shortly before bolting off to sacrifice her own. Genius. As a concept, that is. As a film, this is so-so, a watchable hark back to the slew of early '80s slasher fare that flowed after John Carpenter laid down the template with Halloween (1978).

Dark woods, heavy petting in the back of station wagons, and misty revelations of past atrocities are all doled out, as our, 'I'm not ready yet' heroine and her, 'but I do love you' boyfriend battle her over-protective father (Biehn), and a killer who just may be someone close to home. But if the whodunnit answer is glaringly obvious, the whydoit machinations do hold quirky appeal -culminating in at least one formula-defying dispatch to the great unknown and an array of hilarious flashback haircuts.

Murphy, likewise, is a plus, blossoming from the dumpy suicidal patient in last year's Girl, Interrupted into a ticking sex-bomb with some style. Mohr -still best known for firing Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996) - is as fun as ever, and Biehn hogs the standout scene (a town meeting disintegrates into a fracas as the parents argue over their kids' virginal integrity) with fantastically bad, tongue-in-cheek gravitas.

However, the killer's modus operandi (admittedly a masterstroke in combining the genre necessities of bloodshed and nudity) simply doesn't hold together, with plot twists rendering it inevitable - indeed, essential - that certain victims just ain't virgins. Mainly, though, the disappointment is in an ultimately anaemic feel, that comes as a shock considering Wright's Romper Stomper track record and, sadly, never really delivers the flesh (in both senses) that it promises.

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Cherry falls.

Directed by Geoffrey Wright

Lose your innocence... Or lose your life.

Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin...

Brittany Murphy Jay Mohr Michael Biehn Jesse Bradford Candy Clark Gabriel Mann Amanda Anka Joannah Portman Kristen Miller Bre Blair Natalie Ramsey Joe Inscoe Douglas Spain Michael Weston Keram Malicki-Sánchez Vicki Davis Bret McKee Clementine Ford Michael Goodwin Colin Fickes DJ Qualls Zachary Knighton Ashly Covington

Director Director

Geoffrey Wright

Producers Producers

Marshall Persinger Eli Selden

Writer Writer

Casting casting.

Johanna Ray

Editor Editor

John F. Link

Cinematography Cinematography

Anthony B. Richmond

Assistant Directors Asst. Directors

Jerry Grandey Lisa Demaine Darrell Woodard

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Joyce Schweickert Scott Shiffman Julie Yorn Ken Selden

Camera Operator Camera Operator

George Richmond

Production Design Production Design

Marek Dobrowolski

Art Direction Art Direction

Nicole Koenigsberger

Set Decoration Set Decoration

William A. Cimino Jamie Bishop Stephen G. Shifflette A. Patrick Storey Michael H. Ward

Special Effects Special Effects

Gary Pilkinton Robert Vazquez

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Brian Jennings

Stunts Stunts

Dana Hee John Alden Laura Lee Connery Mark Aaron Wagner Christie Hayes Jayson Dumenigo John Copeman Kofi Elam Bryan Friday Roy Farfel Steve Gums Hiro Koda Steve Mack Dustin Meier Tina Mckissick Shawn Robinson Jodi Michelle Pynn Justin Sundquist Jan Michael Shultz

Composer Composer

Walter Werzowa

Sound Sound

Jeff K. Brunello Andrew DeCristofaro Marshall Garlington Jay Meagher Michael A. Morongell Michael Olman Ken Teaney Jeffrey R. Whitcher Steven D. Williams

Costume Design Costume Design

Louise Frogley

Makeup Makeup

Neal Martz Leigh Ann Yandle Linda Lazar Elisabeth Fry

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Jo Jo Stephens

Industry Entertainment Rogue Pictures Fresh Produce Company October Films

Releases by Date

29 jul 2000, 22 sep 2000, 25 aug 2000, 26 oct 2000, 10 mar 2001, 30 mar 2001, 21 jun 2001, 24 apr 2003, 20 oct 2000, 29 jul 2006, releases by country.

• Premiere Toronto International Film Festival
• Premiere München Fantasy Filmfest
• Theatrical 16

Netherlands

• Physical 16 DVD
• TV 16 RTL 5
• Theatrical M/18

South Korea

• Theatrical 18

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Review by sarah ★★★★★ 1

if word gets back to these kids that somebody is murdering virgins we’re gonna have a goddamn fuck fest on our hands

Review by ♦️•Lily•💋 ★★★½ 1

If this happened in real life then mitski fans would be doomed

Review by DeathBolt ★★★½ 1

God I love movies where everything just feels kind of off and nobody talks like a normal person.

Review by 🩸 c h r i s 🩸 ★★★★ 2

“Holy hymens, Batman! They’re killing virgins!”

Ok, Cherry Falls is a severely underrated post Scream slasher film that turns the horror genre on its head when a killers M.O is to kill virgins,  rather than the usual ... 

Randy: “ there are certain rules one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie... for instance 1. you can never have sex...” 

I had a lot of fun with this one and it’s always good seeing the adorable Brittany Murphy even though she calls her dad “daddy” in a very uncomfortable soft kinda way.  It’s clear that this was edited down and glossed over but it’s still an enjoyable watch full of violent kills, frantic dark hallway chases, & hysterical…

Review by haley ★★★ 13

did anyone else feel all that weird sexual tension between the father and daughter?

Review by Ian West ★★★½ 1

Undervalued weirdo post Scream  slasher with some Twin Peaks  vibes that, like most of my favorite movies in that cycle, feels more like modernized 80’s slasher film than a self referential camp-fest and I admire that. I love the premise and the darker than usual feeling this picture has… plus the phrase "hyman holocaust" is uttered by some horny teen and thats worth the price of admission alone lol.

This holds up for me better than a lot of its relatives of the era—and I really miss Brittney Murphy.

Review by Bunny🐰🪓 ★★½ 2

SHERIFF BRENT : Jody do you have a boyfriend and have you done it with him if not you should because there is a serial killer on the loose and he is targeting all the virgins of our town.

Me : Hey sheriff Brent are you, friends, with MR. LEVENSTEIN (JIM'S FATHER FROM AMERICAN PIE)😂.

Cherry falls is a mediocre slasher flick that tries to be too serious for no reason even when you are setting up the plot regarding the serial killers killing pattern that is laughable, it should click you that very instance that it should be a dark comedy and I was watching it as one but after I watched the genre I decided to rate it low, almost…

Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 6

Been seeing this labeled as Scream -Lite and all that but the late-90s/early-2000s slashers, while pushed out at a record rate to keep up with the short window of profitability, certainly had more to offer than what Wes Craven's classic initially commented on. Cherry Falls , in this instance, is less of a grab-bag riff on tired slasher cliches, but specifically focused on teenage sexuality, and the method of being a virgin as a safety bubble in the world of hack and slashes. With its neo-goth persona and feisty attitude, this is only really held back by outdated values towards the end and its inability to unleash the viciousness of its implicated violence (apparently MPAA-mandated, those fuckers!). As it stands, it's…

Review by Tony the Terror ★★½ 5

Yeahhhh I think I’m supposed to like this one more than I actually do? Like I get that it’s an underrated post Scream  slasher with a great cast, but it only gives me lukewarm vibes. The cast is indeed awesome and the story about a psycho killing virgins is fun and unique, but I dunno something about all the great parts only add up to an alright whole.

Brittany Murphy is amazing and one of the few celebrities I still kinda mourn over...because let’s face it, excessive mourning over celebrities that you never actually knew is weird and unhealthy. Just putting that out there for anyone who absolutely falls to pieces when someone famous dies.

Review by kat🕷 ★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

"Cherry Falls" doesn't want to be a comedy, but it's unintentionally funny at certain points. The plot and dialogue are really bad. The fact that the sheriff is a rapist is obviously meant to shock you, but does that mean you have to tell the story twice? And why does the daughter cover up the crime of the 4 drunk guys in the end? Shouldn't the rape victim be given late rehabilitation? Oh well..

Review by BeardofTsu ★★★★ 7

When Brittany Murphy demands her boyfriend sucks her toes harder that shit was hot!

One of the better post Scream slashers with a simple enough story of a crazed killer murdering all the virgins he can get his hands on - naturally, the only answer is to have a mass orgy which is the scene of the climatic conclusion. I really wasn't expecting too much but it had a nice mix of comedy and horror although it's clear it's been cut to shreds, Brittany Murphy is great which is a testament to her with some of the dialogue she's given in this such as "Daddy, are you disappointed I'm still a virgin?" The whole relationship with her father is bizarre…

Review by Biscoito18 ★★★½ 2

To say that "Cherry Falls" is the story of a killer whose targets are virgin teenagers would be just the first step to explaining the crazy roller coaster that is this movie.

Released during the slasher revival of the late 90s/ early 2000s, "Cherry Falls", is what some would call a copycat of "Scream", like "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Urban Legend", "The Faculty", "Final Destination", "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" and others.

Like in Wes Craven's classic, "Cherry Falls" is also a satire of slashers cliches, but focuses much more on the sexual aspect and the importance that sex and virginity have in these films. If in "Scream" one of Randy's main rules to stay alive was…

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Why Now is the Time to Revisit Cherry Falls

I’m a bit of an apologist for the post- Scream era of horror. I think I Know What You Did Last Summer is actually kind of fun and stylish;  Urban Legend is a slick feature with a great cast;  The Faculty is just an all-around favorite; and  Idle Hands and Bride of Chucky are among my favorite horror comedies, ever.

Scream forced genre filmmakers to up their game. Horror was not making it at the box office anymore and most content was going straight to video. There wasn’t a ton of faith in the genre and it was beginning to be treated as something of a joke, even by the people who made those movies. Scream didn’t treat the genre like a joke, as many believe, but was constructed as a love letter to everything that makes great horror work, while commenting on the tropes at the same time. It led to a total revision of the slasher genre and forced a change of formula on the part of most genre filmmakers.

Some directors got the message, some didn’t. Some of the slashers that came out shortly after  Scream were great, but a whole lot of them weren’t. Still, Scream  succeeded in pushing the genre in a new direction and not necessarily inverting the formula, but approaching it from a new angle.

Well, Cherry Falls completely flips the concept in a refreshing way. Here, we have a movie about a killer who only targets virgins. Right away, you have a gripping premise. I would green-light that in a heartbeat just based on the log-line. But it’s even funnier to watch the film develop and explore that concept. Because once it becomes clear as to what the killer is doing, you have a whole high school full of teenagers in a mad dash to get laid so they don’t die next.

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While so many other films of its era have gone on to either become cult classics or to be revered by people who first watched them when they were kids in the ‘90s, Cherry Falls went unnoticed for the longest time. For a long stretch, it really had no audience. It has only been in recent years that I have talked to other people who have seen it, let alone liked it. The film debuted on cable and it wasn’t a huge hit on video. Plus, it was a different movie than what fans were used to seeing at the time. Like a lot of the best indie horror features, Cherry Falls developed an audience over a long period of time. I remember first seeing it at around 13, on the USA Network, and immediately grasping the concept, even as a kid. Because I’d seen Scream, I knew all the tropes  Cherry Falls was referencing.

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Cherry falls (2000) film review – be true to your school.

1996’s Scream was a game-changer for the slasher genre. By playing with well-established conventions, the movie directly engaged the audience in a conversation about what they were watching and toyed with their expectations. This self-aware approach rejuvenated the slasher for critics and public alike, summoning a tidal wave of copycat films. This meta approach became standard for the neo-slashers, the subgenre Scream and its followers would live under.

Quick to realize they were standing on the shore of an ocean of money, filmmakers and studios began looking for projects to ride the wave that Scream had created. Writer Ken Selden and director Geoffrey Wright hoped their own neo-slasher, Cherry Falls, would take the genre even further by combining teen-sex comedy hijinks with gruesome murders, think  Porky’s, but taking place at Camp Crystal Lake. They hoped mixing the two at a giant, school-wide orgy, would make Cherry  Falls a winner.

Abruptly, the tide of public opinion turned, creating an undertow that forced unwelcome changes on the newly completed film. In 1999, after a series of violent crimes linked to the original Scream and the horrific Columbine High School Massacre, parents began clamoring for changes in the movie rating system to diminish teenage access to violent content. Because of this outcry, the Senate investigations they created, and the MPAA’s unwillingness to give the movie an R-rating, USA Films, Cherry Falls ’s distributor, removed much of the sex, violence and gore from the final film, reducing it to made-for-TV levels.

A serial killer is stalking the high school students in the town of Cherry Falls, brutally murdering them and fashioning gruesome tableaus out of the bodies. When word gets out that the killer is only targeting virgins, the students of Cherry Falls High School plan a party to lose their virginity en masse to save their own lives. After surviving an attack by the killer, Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy) daughter the town sheriff (Michael Biehn), suspects that her father and his friend, school principal Tom Sisler (Joe Inscoe), know more about the murders than they are admitting. The killer chases Jody to the party where are they struggle again and she throws the killer out a second-story window.

There are a lot of great things to like about this movie! As the final girl, Brittany Murphy’s performance is easily the best part of the movie. She brings a chaotic enthusiasm to the role of a character who, while stuck in the odd space between childhood and adulthood, projects an integrity and feistiness that stands out from the murky morals and motives of her peers and the surrounding adults. Her transformation to the final girl is unique and belongs to her alone.

Besides reversing the prohibition against teenagers having sex, Cherry Falls refashioned the Jody into an unusual final girl. While she toys with the idea of losing her virginity, she consistently remains firm that it is her decision to make and will not be pressured either way by her parents, her boyfriend, or even the killer. Selden and Wright’s approach to the transformation of the final girl differs from the typical changes she makes. In older slashers, the weapons used take on highly symbolic significance. Critics and film theorists have written plenty about the subtextual significance of the final girl picking up her own, penetrative weapon. It stands in for castration of the killer and theft of his penis, turning her into a male figure. In Cherry Falls, Jody defeats the killer not by stabbing him, but by throwing him out a window. She never picks up a weapon, relying on hand-to-hand combat lessons taught to her by her father. In short, she avoids becoming what Carol Clover said is “the male viewer’s use of her (the final girl) as a vehicle for his own sadomasochistic fantasies.” ( Men, women, and Chain Saws , 1992, page 54) The only other final girl that comes close to avoiding this transformation is Nancy from Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). She defeats the killer, at least in the first film, by losing her fear of him and therefore rendering him powerless.

Besides fighting for the lives of her peers, Jody also struggles with the secretive and hypocritical nature of the adults. Her investigation reveals that her father, the sheriff, Principal Sisler, and her English teacher (Jay Mohr) are complicit in the crimes and the killer’s origin. Because of the principal’s discomfort with the concept of sexually active teens, he argues to withhold the nature of the killings from the public, appearing to favor the deaths of his students over a frank discussion about the dangers of remaining a virgin.  

Because the MPAA would not give Cherry Falls an R-rating, and USA Films wasn’t willing to release it with an NC-17 or X rating, the film underwent severe cuts to remove naked bodies and blood. Unfortunately, these changes deprived the audience of the visceral thrill they had expected and made for a weaker film. Ironically, this willingness to conform to public pressure is the opposite of Jody’s refusal to give into peer pressure. 

Made during a renaissance for slasher films, Cherry Falls was, if not a game-changer, at least it was an example of the new ways the genre was defining itself. Reversing the sex-taboo made room for new conversations about gender and sexuality. Also, unlike the final girls before her, Jody’s journey more closely resembled the hero’s journey with her ending as a stronger and wiser version of herself, as opposed to previous final girls whose journeys left them damaged, shaken, and often still vulnerable Into the next film, Halloween’s Laurie Strode and Scream’s own Sidney Prescott notwithstanding. This gives Cherry Falls an unexpected heart and soul that speaks to the difficulty of transitioning from childhood into adulthood. 

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Cherry Falls

In a reversal of the usual morality in U.S. teen-slasher pics, virgins find themselves top of the menu in "Cherry Falls," a semi-successful spin on familiar material that could build minor cult status, especially on ancillary. Shot in spring '99, this second production from USA Films' genre division, Rogue Pictures, about a loony on the loose in a Virginia town, is preeming in selected Euro territories after long dithering by USA about Stateside theatrical release; pic will now go out directly over its cable arm, USA Network, on Oct. 20. In the U.K., item grossed a surprisingly respectable $1.3 million during first two weeks of release.

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In a reversal of the usual morality in U.S. teen-slasher pics, virgins find themselves top of the menu in “Cherry Falls,” a semi-successful spin on familiar material that could build minor cult status, especially on ancillary. Shot in spring ’99, this second production from USA Films’ genre division, Rogue Pictures, about a loony on the loose in a Virginia town, is preeming in selected Euro territories after long dithering by USA about Stateside theatrical release; pic will now go out directly over its cable arm, USA Network, on Oct. 20. In the U.K., item grossed a surprisingly respectable $1.3 million during first two weeks of release.

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From its punning title to its playfulness with genre norms, script by Ken Selden (director/co-scripter of the weird 1997 romantic comedy “White Lies”) is clearly trying to do something different with the form, while still delivering the goods at a visceral level. Opening has two high school teens about to make out in a car at night when their coitus is terminally interruptus’d by a mad slasher. Immediately afterward, the same fate looks likely to befall Jody (Brittany Murphy) and b.f. Kenny (Gabriel Mann) in an auto — but it turns out to be Jody’s protective mom (Candy Clark) doing the interrupting this time.

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Following the demise of another local babe, who also ends up with the word “virgin” carved on her inner thigh, the feds arrive, much to the chagrin of the local sheriff, Brent Marken (Michael Biehn), Jody’s father. Panic soon spreads among the Cherry Falls community when Brent announces the killer’s m.o., and parents are soon up in arms when the students of George Washington High announce their solution to the problem — to get laid as soon as possible.

As posters go up for a Hymen Holocaust to be held at the abandoned Donkey Hill Hunting Lodge, school principal Tom Sisler (Joe Inscoe) notes, “We’re gonna have a fuckfest on our hands!”Jody, meanwhile, has started her own investigation into the murders, which seem to be linked with a student, Loralee Sherman, who mysteriously left town 27 years ago after being raped by four high school jocks.

Aside from its premise, there’s a perverse edge to the picture that consistently hints at a more interesting movie than ends up onscreen. On a purely visual level, a considerable amount of sex and explicit violence seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor: Pic was reportedly re-edited five times to achieve an R rating by the MPAA (with the third victim’s agonizing, 5-1/2-minute death totally re-shot), and the British censors’ “15” version shows signs of heavy cutting, with nary a nipple in sight. The finale alone, with Jody strapped in a chair in the killer’s horrific basement, hints at a genuinely nasty chiller.

Other intimations of undeveloped perversity include Brent’s creepily close relationship with Jody, her mom’s spaced-out attitude to what is going on (well etched in Clark’s perf), and the students’ “American Pie”/”Heathers”-like attitude toward American small-town conservatism. Whether these were pushed more to the limit in Selden’s original script is a matter for conjecture; as it is, the movie now falls uncomfortably between two stools, being fully developed neither as an outright slasher pic nor as a dark comedy on inverted morality. Story is also scattered with plot holes, with the killer’s motive especially murky. If ever a movie called for a director’s cut DVD, this is it.

Without equaling his striking first movie, “Romper Stomper,” “Cherry” is at least a major advance on Australian helmer Geoffrey Wright’s second feature, “Metal Skin,” one of the most gratuitous exercises in urban nihilism of the ’90s. “Cherry” is, by contrast, atmospherically lensed in rich dark tones, generally well staged and solidly played by a largely low-wattage cast, with Murphy especially good in a double-edged performance as a virgin with dark attitude. Walter Wersowa’s “Alien”-inflected score is effective. For the record, end credits unroll backwards, a la “Kiss Me Deadly.”

• Production: An Entertainment Film Distributors release (in U.K.) of a Rogue Pictures presentation of an Industry Entertainment/Fresh Produce Co. production. Produced by Marshall Persinger, Eli Selden. Executive producers, Scott Schiffman, Julie Silverman Yorn. Co-executive producers, Ken Selden, Joyce Schweickert. Directed by Geoffrey Wright. Screenplay, Ken Selden.
• Crew: Camera (Deluxe color), Anthony Richmond; editor, John F. Link; additional editor, Russ DeNove; music, Walter Wersowa; production designer, Marek Dobrowolsky; art director, Nicole Koenigsberger; costume designer, Louise Frogley; sound (Dolby), Jay Meagher; stunt coordinator, John Alden; assistant directors, Lisa Campbell, Jerry Grady. Reviewed at Odeon Epsom 7, Surrey, England, Sept. 22, 2000. (Also in FantasyFilmfest, touring Germany.) MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 92 MIN.
• With: Sheriff Brent Marken - Michael Biehn Jody Marken - Brittany Murphy Leonard Marliston - Jay Mohr Kenny - Gabriel Mann Tom Sisler - Joe Inscoe Timmy - Keram Malicki-Sanchez Sandy - Natalie Ramsey Marge Marken - Candy Clark Mina - Amanda Anka Annette - Clementine Ford

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The Real Story Behind ‘Cherry Falls’

In the years following  Scream ‘s release in 1996, studios rushed to release as many witty slashers as possible to capitalize on the meta slasher phase before it fizzled out. From  I Know What You Did Last Summer  to  Urban Legend  to  Valentine , each film seemed to get worse and worse with each subsequent release. This is why it is so upsetting that Geoffrey Wright’s ( Romper Stomper ) rather brilliant film Cherry Falls , which celebrates its 16th anniversary today, had its theatrical release cancelled in lieu of a television premiere on the USA Network. It also saw multiple cuts after the MPAA and the U.S. Senate came down on violence and sexuality in teen films following the Columbine shootings.  Cherry Falls  isn’t a great movie, but it’s certainly a good one. It is one of the better  Scream  copycats to be released in the years following Wes Craven’s classic. So what exactly happened there? Why wasn’t this above average slasher given a proper release and why was it cut apart in the editing room? I’m here to tell you why.*

*All information is pulled from the director’s commentary and various interviews from Scream Factory’s recently-released Blu-Ray of Cherry Falls .

In case you haven’t seen it, Cherry Falls  is a slasher film that   flips the horror genre on its head by telling the tale of a serial killer who targets virgins in a small town aptly named Cherry Falls. Starring Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Gabriel Mann, and the late Brittany Murphy,  Cherry Falls  is a fun, under-seen gem from the turn of the century that is finally seeing an increased popularity thanks to Scream Factory’s Blu-Ray (I even missed it upon its original release and only now just saw it for the first time). For the sake of anyone who hasn’t seen the film, spoilers will be kept to a minimum as the killer’s reveal, while not the most original plot development in horror history, still manages to surprise.

Cherry Falls  was going to be distributed by October Films, a major U.S. independent film production company owned by Universal Pictures. After filming wrapped, Universal then sold its shares of October Films to Barry Diller in 1999, who merged it with Gramercy Pictures and renamed the new company USA Films. When this happened, all Hell broke loose.

At the time of  Cherry Falls ‘s impending release, the Senate was having hearings over sex and violence in teen films. It threw a spotlight on Cherry Falls and USA Films, being a new company didn’t want their first release to defy what the Senate said they should do. Thus the film was given a TV release as opposed to a theatrical release (though it did get released in some European theaters after selling to every major territory at Cannes), and all deleted footage was lost. With a budget of $14 million,  Cherry Falls  has the distinction of being the most expensive TV movie ever made.

The film was written by Ken Selden as a satire with plenty of comedic elements but was directed by Geoffrey Wright, who viewed it as a far more serious film. Wright kept much of the satire, but also increased the horror, removing much of the comedy from Selden’s script. This would ultimately hurt the film when put in front of the MPAA ( Scream  faced similar issues with its climax but the MPAA lightened up when director Wes Craven told them it was meant as a comedy), who repeatedly slapped it with an NC-17 rating.

Things got tense fairly quickly on the set of Cherry Falls . Given a 30-day time frame to shoot the film, Wright went over-budget and behind-schedule early on into the shoot. Selden points out that many scenes that he wrote weren’t even able to be filmed because of this (though the flashback to Loralee’s rape was added in by Wright) and scenes had to be rushed during filming since they had limited time and weren’t able to return to locations after they had left. This meant that many scenes in the final cut were the first and only take, which is actually pretty impressive. Selden politely notes that Wright had a very specific vision for  Cherry Falls and frequently clashed with members of the crew, specifically cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond (who made a name for himself shooting films like  Don’t Look Now and  Candyman and now shoots films like  Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ). Wright admits to this in his commentary and even confesses to irritating actor Jay Mohr for demanding a flexible schedule from all of the actors. He even tells an anecdote in which Richmond walked off the set and didn’t come back for almost two days because Richmond thought he was using too much blood in one sequence. Wright’s commentary on Scream Factory’s Blu-Ray is quite fascinating and he does take responsibility for most of the tension present on the set.

In a post-Columbine world, the media eye was on violence in cinema. The late 90s and early 00s saw many horror films trimmed of much of their violence. This holds true for  Cherry Falls as well, with nearly all of the death scenes lacking in the gore department. Wright himself admits that a very soft version of the film was released. Graphic shots were taken from the opening kill and a scene in which a deputy’s head is cleaved in half with an ax. Even the killer’s death by impalement is missing the shot of the actual penetration. Wright informs his listeners that all of these shots were filmed, but unfortunately had to be removed from the film to appease the Senate, the MPAA and USA Films.

While much of the violence had to be trimmed, the teen orgy ended up causing the most problems with the MPAA. After all, you can’t just show a bunch of minors having a sex party (well, you couldn’t in 2000 anyway). Interestingly enough, Selden wrote the scene to feature a “sea of white sheets.” In his script, which comes as an extra with the Blu-Ray, viewers wouldn’t actually see most of the orgy taking place. Instead, they would see the shapes of bodies moving under the sheets. When the killer is chasing Jody (Murphy) through the house, the audience would simply see the sheets with splashes of blood randomly appearing on them. Wright chose to go a more graphic route and show everything in plain sight, resulting in the film being given an NC-17 rating multiple times. Since Wright was obligated to deliver an R-rated film, nearly all of the nudity (mostly topless females) was cut from the scene.

So where is all of the footage that had to be cut in order to obtain the R rating? Wright insists that it still exists, stating twice in the commentary that studios  never  lose footage. They only misplace it. If this is indeed the case, then it’s quite possible buried below tons of lost footage in the Focus Features vault. If that is the case, Scream Factory couldn’t find it . There is still hope though. One day it might be discovered in the archives randomly, at which point Scream Factory (or another Blu-Ray distributor) can re-release the Blu-Ray with the uncut version. Selden rightly points out that Blumhouse could make the film today for $5 million and get by without any cuts. Maybe a remake is in order? The slasher genre could use a reboot and remaking  Cherry Falls might be easier than finding that lost footage.

A journalist for Bloody Disgusting since 2015, Trace writes film reviews and editorials, as well as co-hosts Bloody Disgusting's Horror Queers podcast, which looks at horror films through a queer lens. He has since become dedicated to amplifying queer voices in the horror community, while also injecting his own personal flair into film discourse. Trace lives in Denver, CO with his husband and their two dogs. Find him on Twitter @TracedThurman

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Released in 2000, Cherry Falls continues the trend of poor Scream copycat slashers with a story that is hilariously absurd.

Directed by Geoffrey Wright, and starring Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, and Michael Biehn. The plot sees a small Virginia town targeted by a serial killer who enjoys offing teenaged virgins.

After a spate of killings, teenager Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy) the daughter of the town’s sheriff becomes the next target. Her unwillingness to sleep with her on/off boyfriend makes her the prime victim for the psychopath.

The rest of the high school students in town set up a party for a mass losing of virginities after the killer’s ‘modus operandi’ is revealed. Something the adults in the town seem to be weirdly alright about, probably as some of them are hiding a dark past. Something that Jody begins to unravel.

Blah, blah, blah…for all the originality of the concept, Cherry Falls has next to no originality elsewhere. It plays out like every late 90’s/early 00’s slasher ever with many predictable plot points. The killer’s identity is easy to work out and even their motivations are revealed earlier than it should.

Frustrating to watch thanks to some very average performances. Michael Biehn seem to be falling asleep delivering his lines with zero passion while the likes of Brittany Murphy and Jay Mohr overact to the point of hilarity.

The cringy dialogue does little to help the movies cause with great lines such as:

“It’s always a compliment when a guy says you can suck a mean dick” and “Hail, Hail, Virgin high, drop your pants its fuck or die!”

Classic stuff.

There are so many plot issues & head-slapping moments. Those involved ask you to ignore way too much of what would be natural or believable behaviour. It’s tiresome to see a killer who is normal in every sense of the word up until the point where their identity is revealed whereupon they become a drooling mess. Unsurprisingly Cherry Falls ends in a flat and disappointing way with the killer dispatched by the heroine who literally moves out of the way.

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Just watched Cherry Falls (2000) for the first time

What a strange and wild ride.

For context: I love 90s/00s teen slashers - the good, the bad, the campy - and think I’ve seen pretty much all of them (but also please feel free to give me any other recs - I want them all!) But Cherry Falls was one movie I had heard about from this sub over the past couple years that was nearly impossible to find via (legal) streaming or rental services. (Shout out to my local video shop for helping me get a copy.)

Snow day today, so finally watched it. Wow.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, a general summary: a serial killer is targeting virgins at a high school, so a group of teens decide to host a “pop your cherry ball” to all lose their virginity together, and chaos ensues. Yes that is the actual plot.

I didn’t realize going into it that it was intentionally satire (but picked up on that pretty quickly) I watched the cast and crew interviews afterwards and they all really embraced the fact that it was a satirical dark comedy, and seemed to be why most of the (pretty star-studded — shout out queen Brittany Murphy) cast signed on.

As the sheriff (Michael Biehn) put it in an interview: “Hopefully it’ll make people smile and come out of the theater with a smile on their face from a genre they’ve enjoyed and had fun with.”

It seems pretty ahead of its time in terms of addressing sexual assault, but it was also really interesting to learn that apparently at that time there were senate trials happening in Hollywood about sexual violence in teen movies, which impacted support for the film and it actually ended up not going to theaters and instead premiered on USA television.

One of the producers noted that it was the most expensive television movie ever made (at the time of the interview in 2015).

It sounded like from interviews the writer and director felt like they were being particularly progressive (quotes from them: “in these movies, having promiscuous girls killed off first is a very right wing thing” and “in most of these movies, you have sex and you die. In this movie…if you have sex, you’re safe. Love conquers all.”) Some of the interviews were a bit strange but definitely interesting.

Overall it was definitely entertaining and fun, and also a bit bad and campy, and also definitely bizarre - all in an enjoyable way imo. It feels like a classic teen slasher in so many ways and I’m surprised it’s not mentioned more often - but makes sense with how inaccessible it is to watch.

I’ll leave you with some truly bonkers actual quotes from the film that sum it up quite well:

“Holy hymens, Batman - they’re killing virgins!”

“ Hail, hail Virgin High. Drop your pants or fucking die ”

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