Lackluster slasher flick with lame script.
Added 6/21/2005
The movie "Cherry Falls" is not very good, even for its type. The movie is about a psycho path killing virgins in Cherry Falls, Virginia, but there is more than meets the eye. The sheriff, played by Michael Biehn, harbors a dark secret which may have something to do with these killings. It actually sounds more interesting than it is, but the movie is really lacking in suspense. Also, I thought the acting was pretty bad to be frank, except for Michael Biehn, who did a pretty good job.
Like so many 90s and modern day horror flicks, "Cherry Falls" starts off fairly well, but fades quickly as the movie lacks a credible horror movie like atmosphere...the result is a generic slasher flick with an undeniable 90s feel and which is totally unconvincing and clearly lacking in substance and style...perhaps, this is due in part to the below average acting as well.
After the audience discovers the killer's identity, a very tiresome and boring scene ensues and "Cherry Falls" declines drastically from there to the pathetic ending. If you are looking for lost slasher movie classics, I recommend "The Burning", "He Knows You're Alone", "Madman" and "Just Before Dawn" as horror movie "diamonds in the rough" so to speak.
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Cherry Peaks Twin Falls ScreamI Know...wait...what the hell?
Added 8/25/2004
This is one of those yet again slasher teen pics gone into the waste disposal. This time its in a town called Cherry Falls, Virginia. A killer is on the loose and apparently killing virgins...hmm killing virgins in Virginia...get it? Anyway, it seems past secrets resurface to haunt the town. When the whole town finds this out..every single teenager in school goes and throws a sex party. This floppy non suspenseful movie proves again slasher movies can be kind of boring after awhile. I totally Saw Jay Mohr (Last Comic Standing, GO) as the killer coming a mile away...it's not hard to pick up the clues and get the character. Also starring Michael Biehn (Tv's Hawaii, Jade), Brittany Murphy (Just Married, Spun), Michael Weston (Wishcraft), Jesse Bradford (Swimfan, Bring It On), DJ Qualls (The New Guy, Road Trip), Candy Clark (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Movie), Gabriel Mann and Keram Malicki-Sanchez (Tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Happy Campers). The beginning was a total Twin Peaks rip off.
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SOMEONE IS KILLING THE VIRGINS OF CHERRY FALLS, VIRGINIA...
Added 8/8/2004
I caught this straight to video movie on the Independent Films Channel. A slasher film with a decent enough cast, Michael Biehn, Brittany Murphy, and Jay Mohr, it is scary, campy, and funny. It has all the makings of a future cult classic.
The plot is simple. Someone is killing the virgins of Cherry Falls, Virginia, so the film centers around its high school and its resident teens. Brittany Murphy capably and engagingly plays the part of Jody, a teenage girl who has remained a virgin, despite some hot and heavy scenes with her hunky boyfriend of a year. She also has a special interest in one of her young teachers (Jay Mohr).
When the killing begins, Jody's father (Michael Biehn), the town's sheriff, goes into action to try and discover just who is killing off the virgins in his town. When his daughter is nearly the killer's next victim, it dawn on the sheriff that the answer may revolve around a twenty-seven year old mystery that he knows more about than he cares to say.
The teens come up with an interesting solution to the serial killer problem. Simply get rid of your virginity and ensure your safety. While this is going on, however, the killer goes about his bloody business. Just who is the killer, and why are the town's virgins being killed? Watch the film and find out. If you are into horror films that are a bit campy, as well as funny, then this film is worth a rental.
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Bloody Teenage Orgy
Added 7/1/2004
This film was sooooo wicked!!!!!!!
Iwatched i over and over.
The plot is sheer brilliance.
It's a must see for anybody who hasn't seen this cult classic.
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Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls
Added 1/21/2004
"Cherry Falls" boldly struts onto the horror genre stage, bathed in self-importance and confidently carrying the air of "something new." It is one of the most unpleasant movie experiences of my life. Flavor of the month Brittany Murphy is Jody, a pasty high school student having problems with her horndog boyfriend Kenny (Gabriel Mann). Kenny wants to do it, Jody does not, and the two break up. This occurs the same night another teenage couple are hacked to death. Jody's dad is Sheriff Marken (Michael Biehn), who stoically investigates the killings. After another student is killed, Marken goes to the high schoolers' parents with a tidbit of information- the killer carved the word VIRGIN into the victims, and it seems the victims were in fact virgins. This causes a giant uproar, as the students decide the only way to save themselves from the killer is to have sex, and the parents half heartedly say no. Jody is attacked at the meeting, and has a sketch done of the killer. The killer is identified as a girl who disappeared from town over two decades before, and suddenly town secrets start rising to the surface. Jody does her own investigation, and the prerequisite bloody climax (sorry) occurs at the giant high school sex party. This film made me sad. The director went with a bunch of browns and earth tones, the likes of which I have not seen since I last changed my son's diaper. All the students have a pasty look to them. Everyone seems to wear black, even the sheriff and his deputies sport the latest in brown wear. This is depressing to watch. I also came to hate every character in the movie. When watching a slasher film, one should not feel more sympathy for the killer than for the victims. All the adults here are troubled alcoholics who are quick to get into dumb fistfights (the school meeting). All the high schoolers here are stupid horny pot heads who make jokes about the killings. Why bother hoping these people make it until the end of the film? Wright, who somehow went from directing "Romper Stomper" to this mess, gets some real mean murders out of his film. However, he also falls for every damn cliche you have seen in every other damn slasher film. From the jump cut (heroine bumps into someone who turns out to be harmless), to the villain coming back to life one final time, I wanted to throw something at the screen. There is a germ of morbid humor near the end of the film, watch for a severed hand in a student's hair, but it is too little too late. "Cherry Falls" is bathed in unpleasantness. I thought I was going to need a shower after this. Hopefully, this new round of slasher flicks is ending so we can wait another twelve years for "something new" to come along. "Cherry Falls" and should have stayed down.
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cherry falls dvd
Added 12/28/2007
im so glad i could find this movie on here....i had seen it years ago and loved it and never could find it again.....plus it came with another short movie....and for very little money too.....this was def. a steal!
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5 stars for Terror Tract
Added 2/15/2007
Terror Tract is an awesome set of short great horror stories. Why the scab that is cheery falls is latched onto it i'll never know.
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3 Stars for Cherry Falls, 4 for Terror Tract
Added 7/10/2006
This DVD contains 2 more obscure Horror Films that never made it to the theatre.
Cherry Falls- starring Brittany Murphy & Jay Mohr
Plot- The town of Cherry Falls is shocked when a killer starts offing the teenage population, which happen to all be Virgins. When the students learn about the killers modus operandi, they throw a ''Pop Your Cherry Ball'' where the students can surrender their virginity. This movie is rare in the fact its usually the ones who are having the sex who are offed first, this time it's the virgins. This film was also recommended in Fangoria's '100 Horror Films youve never seen'. Overall, its a decent horror film with a different twist to it.
Terror Tract- starring John Ritter
Now this one was suprisiningly unique. This is a Creepshow like film, except it dosent have the cartoons with the stories.
Plot- A real estate agent is showing a couple around town who are looking to buy a home. Every home they go to seems to have some terrible murder that happened in it. John starts telling the creepy stories when he gets in the house and is showing them around.
Story One 'First House'- About a couple having an affair and some crazy husband or lover who finds them together. They put him in the lake but he ends up coming back. And a twist at the end. Pretty good story but not as scary as the other 2.
Story Two 'Second House'- Wow, this story was good and creepy, I sure wouldnt buy the house after hearing this one. Its about an evil monkey a little girl finds in her tree outside. Her dad lets her keep it in the house for a little bit but still has a feeling theres something wrong with the monkey when he starts biting him and throwing stuff at the dog. He finally gets fed up and wants the monkey out but the monkey wont leave and he starts trying all kinds of tricks to get him out, but the monkey keeps returning and the ending is brutal! This story makes me feel different about monkies now. Excellent story.
Story Three 'Third House'- This story is about a teenager whos having premonitions of a murderer on the loose and seeing pyschic visions of the killings. Hes worried the killer will strike again and is getting feelings so he goes to some therapist lady to tell her. This story would have been great as a whole film. The 'killer' in this film is so scary. Hes called ''granny'' and wears a granny mask that is one of the most frightening masks ive ever seen a killer wear. Whenever he kills he says ' Dont worry, its only Granny!!' then he kills them with an ax or a knife. This one was great.
Then the ending where Ritter has to make the sale of a home before the days up but the couple is so freaked out they dont want to buy a home now. The ending was a twist and it was funny at the same time.
4 stars for Terror Tract, Highly Recommended.
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