The slasher genre never got a tune up quite like it did with Cherry Falls, a tongue in cheek satire that while hilariously high concept and silly, can actually be pretty frightening, especially during it's intense climax. Here's the premise: Cherry Falls is a small town in Virginia that has fallen prey to a masked serial killer. The twist? Said killer is only targeting virgins, which causes quite the uproar. As the high school kids all scramble to get laid before they get laid six feet under, the prudish townsfolk become unhinged and disgusted by the whole affair, and a decades old secret involving some of the town's best and brightest comes to light, a scandal to rival tr sleazy parade of flesh this murderer has set into motion. Young Jody Markum (Brittany Murphy) has yet to have her cherry popped, and fears for life in between bouts of teenage angst. Her father (Michael Biehn), who also happens to be the town sheriff, wrestles with demons in his past, as well as his own. A schoolteacher (Jay Mohr) scours the town archives for clues before it's too late. And every horny adolescent tries to desperately get their freak on, providing some of the funniest moments you'll see in a fright flick. Gymnasium orgies, rampant fornication and all kinds of naughty antics ensue. Nothing beats the faculty meeting where parents violently argue as to who has the sluttiest offspring. Full of in jokes, innuendo and sly sexy humour, this is one of the great overlooked horror comedies out there.

I had never even heard of this film when I saw it on the shelf of my second hand DVD shop but at 75p I thought I'd give it a go. I was robbed. OK it wasn't that bad but considering the cast it had it was very poor. Brittany Murphy is uglied up with a terrible fright wig for some bizarre reason, Michael Biehn is phoning it in for most of the film and just when he starts to act he dies! The whole twist is centred around a woman called Loralee but it's blatantly obvious to anyone that loralee is a man in drag and again it's so obvious who that man is. I guessed it within ten minutes. The murders are also a let down, the film has an 18 rating and yet is almost entirely free of gore and bloodshed. Even the killing of the bad guy is without the required splatter of a stalk and slash film. With cardboard characters, bad dialogue, huge plot holes and general ineptness in film making this should be avoided. The film is neither funny nor scary nor sexy and so fails on it's three main selling points.

This movie was very interesting. And though I am a sucker for Who dun-nit types of movies, this movie still kept me on edge. Starring the late great Brittany Murphy and Jason Mohr,it changed the whole idea of sex=death, that is seen in almost every slasher film. In fact the virgins are the ones being slashed off. This movie also has some funny parts ********SPOILER ALERT******* What I really loved about this movie is that everything ties up at the end Such when Brittany Murphy is chatting with her teacher (Jason Mohr) she claims she saw someone standing in the door. They race out to see who it is and they eventually land in the cafeteria and only the viewers of the movie see a boot with a weird logo like four little squares to make one square. Later in the movie she goes to her boyfriends house and she takes off his boots ( which are the exact same boots in the cafeteria). Which at the time gives viewers a chance to ponder whether her boyfriend is the killer. The killer we find out is the beloved teacher (Jason Mohr), who is the son of a student who was raped 27 years ago by a drunken incoherent boy who is now the father of Brittany Murphy's character. I know pretty heavy stuff. But after Brittany finds out about her father bad deeds she goes to Jason Mohr's home (how did she know where her teacher lived was that a normal thing)and she see him struggling trying to carry this big treasure chest type of thing and when he slides it down the stairs, which sort of scares Brittany Murphy, She asks what inside the box and he said "Your father, My Father" at the time we don't time we didn't get why he said that, but now that the movie is over I was able to realize how those things added up.I still have questions about this movie... 1. Did the boyfriend make it? we see him slashed through his shirt blood visible but he is able to crawl out to the balcony to see whats going on.2. They never really gave an explanation during th questioning by the FBI as to why they lied, I assume that it was to protect her father's image as well as the daughter.

In the small town of Cherry Falls a masked murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school.The cast was decent if not quite A-list: Jay Mohr as a teacher, a post-Clueless Brittany Murphy as the female lead (and sheriff's daughter), and genre favorite Michael Biehn.AllMovie gave it a favorable review, writing, "Of all the teen slasher flicks that premiered after the wildly successful Scream series (Urban Legend, etc.), Cherry Falls will possibly go down as one of the most creative, but sadly unseen ones in the bunch." Although reviews were generally mixed or negative, Entertainment Weekly gave a shockingly positive one (grading the film as A-). They have labeled the picture "the wittiest, most subversive teen thriller since 'Heathers'." While I am not a fan of "Heathers", this is still high praise.I probably would have expected more from "Romper Stomper" director Geoffrey Wright, but I guess it is a different territory. The concept was good, and they more or less succeeded in carrying a one-joke film all the way through...