Movie Review: Cherry Falls (2000)

Cherry Falls is a pretty good and mostly overlooked post-Scream slasher movie. This era of slasher films I usually find to be quite boring because most of the movies feel like they’re all the same, but this one stood out for its no-nonsense approach. This isn’t really trying to be a comedy, or to be overtly self-aware. It’s just a solid teen horror movie. Sure, there’s the whole acknowledgement of the virgin trope, but that’s about it.

I think I’d have liked this movie even more if it had a stronger cast. Brittany Murphy is kind of whatever in the lead, and she doesn’t have a great supporting cast around her (something a lot of the other post-Scream movies were able to pull off).

Still, this movie mostly delivers on its scares. It’s all reasonably effective.

Rating: 6/10