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Cherry Falls

2000, Movie, R, 91 mins

Cherry Falls: Review

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Bringing up the rear in the long, sad procession of SCREAM (1996) rip-offs is this blood-spattered mess of a teen slasher film from Geoffrey Wright, the once-daring director of ROMPER STOMPER (1992). The fun of SCREAM came in writer Kevin Williamson’s ability to wink at the audience and scare them silly at the same time. Wright attempts a similar feat, but he lacks Williamson’s wit and ingenuity. The story concerns a small town high-school girl named Jody (Brittany Murphy) whose jerk of a boyfriend (Gabriel Mann) has just dumped her for refusing to give up her virginity. As if the dumping didn’t bum Jody out enough, the next day at school she learns that two of her friends have been brutally murdered while making out in the woods. More dead teens crop up, and a link emerges between the killings: all of the victims are virgins. Jody decides, along with her sexually inexperienced classmates, that the best way to thwart a virgin killer is to lose your virginity at a wild teenage sex party (the promise of a wild, teenage sex party is perhaps the best way to keep an audience interested in a half-witted horror movie). While giddy teens psych themselves up for the party, the local sheriff (Michael Biehn) plays whodunit, only to find that the killer is someone he’d never suspect. With the exception of Brittany Murphy, who makes her hackneyed character sexy and sympathetic, the cast (which includes Jay Mohr as a touchy-feelie English teacher) fails to liven up the dull B-movie script. If this was Wright’s bid for mainstream success, he was better off on the margins. leave a comment --Scott Jacobson
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