Cherry Falls

[SaintMort]

Has anyone seen this before? I bought it on eBay awhile ago becuse I couldn't find it for the life of me anywhere else. But I LOVED it. It's a brilliant teen slasher film that takes the normal structure and reworked it (much like scream).

For those who haven't seen it; this film is based on a town named Cherry Falls where the killer kills people who aren't virgins. The high school kids have 1 solution... a group orgy.

It's awesome and hilarious

[Doc Daneeka]

I loved this movie, VERY disturbing concept to the good parents around here. Very disturbing camerawork as well, great film color-tone. This is no B-Film, at least not to me. The only thing really bad about this film is the mystery of the killer and some of the acting.

[Torgo]

Alternate versions for
Cherry Falls (2000)
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 a character named Annette 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, the shot 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's death had more blood.

Timmy's death was an on screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.

A character's death at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints. A male character's throat was slashed open.

[Jack]

I really liked that one as well.  Excellent acting and a really well done plot.  It kept me interested and concerned about the fate of the characters from start to finish.  It's a bummer about the "Graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence" getting cut, that's the one thing the movie could have used a tad more of. 

[Torgo]

At the time Cherry Falls finally got released, there was an article in Fangoria in which the director lamented the many cuts that they had to make to get a R rating.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Hopefully, they can still swing an unrated edition.

[Torgo]

Hopefully, they can still swing an unrated edition.

Since it was just a straight-to-video release at the time, I can't figure out why they just didn't release it unrated.

[systemcr4sh]

It was released a little while before the whole "UNRATED TRIPLE XXXXXTREEEME CHAINSAW EDITION!!!!!!!!!" craze really caught on.
That's not to say they didn't exist, they just weren't as profitable.