Cherry Falls (2000)

In the small town of Cherry Falls, a psychotic murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school.

Director:

Geoffrey Wright

Writer:

Ken Selden

Stars:

Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Brittany Murphy	...	Jody Marken
Jay Mohr	...	Leonard Marliston
Michael Biehn	...	Sherrif Brent Marken
Jesse Bradford	...	Rod Harper (as Jesse Watrouse)
Candy Clark	...	Marge Marken
Amanda Anka	...	Deputy Mina
Joe Inscoe	...	Tom Sisler
Gabriel Mann	...	Kenny Ascott
Natalie Ramsey	...	Sandy
Douglas Spain	...	Mark
Bre Blair	...	Stacy Twelfmann
Kristen Miller	...	Cindy
Michael Weston	...	Ben
Keram Malicki-Sánchez	...	Timmy
Joannah Portman	...	Sharon

Storyline

A psychotic serial slasher starts a bloodthirsty murder rampage at Cherry Falls high school that only kills the local high school virgins. This leads to the local teenage population organising a sex party in order to lose their virginity and thus no longer be targets...

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Plot Keywords:

high school | virginity | slasher | sheriff | father daughter relationship | 

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Taglines:

lose your innocence - or lose your life

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence/gore, teen sexuality, language and some drug content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 August 2000 (UK)

Also Known As:

Cherry Falls

Filming Locations:

Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$14,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rogue Pictures, Fresh Produce Company, Industry Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film received two nominations for Best Picture and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, Geoffrey Wright finally taking the prize.

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Goofs

When Stacy is in the background watching her boyfriend being attacked, she changes position between shots.

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Quotes

Leonard Marliston: We have the same colour eyes
Sheriff Brent Marken: No.
Leonard Marliston: Dad.
Sheriff Brent Marken: NO... NO... NO.

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Crazy Credits

The closing credits roll down instead of up.

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Alternate Versions

The movie had to be re-cut five times in order to achieve an R-rating. Most significant cuts include:

• Graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence;
• The death of Annette (Clementine Ford); the originally scripted scene showed her having her throat slowly pushed onto a pane of glass. The scene was filmed and very brutal, done all in one graphic cut. However, it was later replaced with her character's head split open in the front door. That scene was still trimmed heavily; in unrated versions the top of her head erupts and a splash of blood flies across the doorjamb.
• Rod (Jesse Bradford)'s death had more blood.
• Timmy (Keram Malicki-Sánchez)'s death was an on-screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.
• A character's death involving a male character's throat being slashed open at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints.

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Connections

Featured in Beyond Clueless (2014)

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Soundtracks

How Soon Is Now?
Written by Johnny Marr and Morrissey
Performed by Snake River Conspiracy

User Reviews

"Like a virgin, stabbed for the very first time...."

The success of the `Scream' series spawned many clones, this being a reasonable attempt. The makers of such scream clones were obviously faced with a dilemma, how not to stray too far from a winning formula – yet be original at the same time – therefore in this one they give the story a little twist. Here, the preposterous twist is that the killer only kills virgins! – sending the youths in the local village sex mad - in order to save their life, obviously!!.

As bad as it sounds, its not all bad, especially when the absolutely delicious Brittany Murphy is the lead role as the daughter of the local sheriff (Michael Biehn) who is investigating these grisly murders – and guess what, she's a virgin!!. The final twist is pretty good, although if you really think about, the killers motive for hating all virgins isn't really that convincing, Fun though if you take it for what it is, enjoyable rubbish!!