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:

If you haven't had it... you've had it.

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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 - Asesino de vírgenes

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

Michael Biehn initially wasn't interested in the movie because, after reading 15 pages of the script, he thought it was just another slasher movie. His agent convinced him to keep reading. Biehn liked the satirical approach to the genre and decided to do the movie.

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Goofs

When Jody is talking to Leonard Iveston, the word Byron is wiped out on the board behind them in the close up shots. When the camera goes to the long angle where most of the classroom can be seen, Byron is chalked onto the board again.

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Quotes

Annette: You're a shit-sucking liar!
Dylan: It's better than a cock-sucking liar!

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Crazy Credits

Mike N. Schott - Boom Operator

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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

Referenced in Tuno negro (2001)

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Soundtracks

Fader
Performed by Drugstore

User Reviews

You gotta see it!

This movie rocks. I loved every second of it. Very scary and funny, with some great performances and a clever script. The killer is a great addition to the scream psycho pantheon. Britany Murphy is very good in this, as is Jay More and Candy Clarke. The movie is well paced and never boring. There is gore for the hounds, sex for the horns, and some cool twists along the way. The story is much more interesting then typical slasher fare, and would have played well to a theatrical audience. They should have sent it out instead of dumping it on video.

I highly recommend this as the best in the post Scream neo slashers of the 1990's.