Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

nicklevys Even by slasher genre standards it's still bad.Although the idea behind the movie is good by itself, I quickly realized that this film was nothing else than an excuse to put violence, teens and sex together. The over acting is the worse of it all and seems to be the doing of the director because every actor in the movie does it.There are NO scenes with a suspense build up. The end by itself is not the result of a tension build up and discoveries piling-up.If it was the work of a college student in a fiction writing course, I'd feel generous giving it a D.

tstudstrup I only wanted to watch this, because of Michael Biehn, who is one of my all time favorite actors. But even the guy from The Terminator, Aliens and Tombstone, can't save this crap.Besides from a pretty dumb plot with at twist that involves Biehns character, it has plot holes and really bad special effects, that can't be forgiven.Plothole number 1: how can the killer possibly know for sure, which of his victims are virgins? 2: The sheriff (Biehn) drives to the house, where a woman he and three other boys raped 27 years earlier, lives. How did he know where she lives? 3: Then the killer, who is not the woman they raped, but her son disguised as his mother, not only makes it back to the town, before the sheriff. But he has also had time to kill the principal at the high school, which was one of the other rapists. How is that possible? 4: Why would the son avenging the rape of his mother and himself being beaten by his mother, by killing innocent high school kids? Why didn't he just go after the rapists right away? 5: Four men raped the woman, two of them conveniently moved away. If the killer went through all of that trouble, why didn't he track down and kill the remaining two rapists? Had the movie not been a teen slasher flick but an adult thriller about the 4 rapists and the killer, this might have been a decent film.Michael Biehn is pretty much wasted here, considering how awesome he has been in other movies.As far as the bad effects go: when the killer attacks the sheriffs daughter (the late Brittany Murphy) she throws him out of a window on to a balcony. hard enough to hurl him over a fence, that magically disappears so he can fall over the edge, only to reappear in the next shot. Then he falls down on a broken fence, that is literally painted on to the film, because it wasn't there when they shot the scene. The dumb teenage kids, who were having a sex orgy in the house stares in horror. One of them has a chopped off hand on top of his head and never notices it.That pretty much sums up how bad this movie is.Don't watch this unless you're as brain dead a teen, as the kids in this movie. Then you might actually enjoy this.

ersinkdotcom Just about everything in "Cherry Falls" is somehow clever and quick- witted. First of all, just take a minute to ponder the name of the town. The concept of a killer taking out virgins instead of disreputable teens is also something the movie has going for it. Another asset is a well thought out script by writer Ken Selden with a surprise reveal that hearkens back to the suspenseful who-dun-its like "Prom Night," "My Bloody Valentine," and even the later "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "Cherry Falls" is perfect by any means. There are plenty of stale performances and overacting from a largely young cast. Honestly, that's my only complaint about the movie."Cherry Falls" is rated R for strong violence / gore, teen sexuality, language and some drug content. There's plenty of talk about sex, but no nudity. If you saw the movie when it premiered as the most expensive TV-movie on the USA Network, I'm sure most of the language and graphic violence was nowhere to be found. The version we get here is the home video cut, which features folks getting axed in the head and being impaled. Most of the killing is performed offscreen, however, in the fine fashion of "Psycho" and other early thrillers."Cherry Falls" is one of the more adept entries in the slasher genre. Much of this is owed to the combination of a sincere performance from Brittany Murphy, an ingenious turnabout in plot, and the familiar use of a surprise ending. It's an enjoyable addition to a horror fan's home entertainment collection.

Matt Kracht I had never even heard of this movie until recently. I guess I was far outside of its demographic, being almost 30 when it was released. I watched it because I thought it was a Michael Biehn movie about him chasing a serial killer. However, it turns out that this is a ridiculous Scream clone, marketed to teenagers. The first half of the movie is pretty stupid. Like Scream, it constantly attempts to impress us with its witty and ironic deconstructions of teenage slasher conventions. In traditional movies, such as Friday the 13th, a serial killer brutally murders horny teenagers who have sex. In this movie, it's the reverse: a serial killer hunts down and brutally murders virgins. That's very witty and ironic, if you're a teenager or hack screenwriter.There are some parts of the movie that work, however. While too inhibited to be effective as a horror movie, there are some funny scenes near the end. Also, if you're looking for a small town with a dark secret, this is definitely your kind of place. I was actually a bit surprised that they went this dark. I was expecting a rather bland and stereotypical backstory, if any.For a movie targeted to teens, it's really not that bad. If you're old enough to have teenage kids yourself, however, I'd probably steer clear.