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Cherry Falls & Terror Tract

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...no real gore, no bad language to express how they were really feeling and half the story and edge gone due to editing. I was so glad to hear it was coming out on DVD and was suprised to find out that it was gonna be packaged with another movie called Terror Tract. I had never heard of it, but found out that John Ritter was in it. Ultimately, both movies are very good in different ways. Cherry Falls is a dark, sadistic slasher movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The extremely talented Brittany Murphy is in it as well as the very funny Jay Mohr who plays it serious in this one. This movie - comparable to Scream, Heathers and American Pie, will have you guessing who is killing the town virgins and why. Unlike most horror movies this movie never tires or bores and has very good acting and a very good script. It's a shame it didn't get a theatrical release, but at least the DVD isn't a butchered version like the basic cable version one was. Terror Tract reminds me alot of Tales From The Crypt; Very spooky and silly at the same time. Its about a real estate agent trying to sell a newly married couple a home and each house they visit has a horrifying tale about why the previous owners moved, leading into little short stories. Not as smart or as clever as Cherry Falls, but very entertaining and very eerie. There aren't any special features on this dvd... And both movies come on just one disc....so its easy to have yourself a night of chills without getting up. And you might not wanna watch these alone.....

I managed to catch "Cherry Falls" on USA when it aired on Halloween 2001. I thought it was great. A horror film that throws the rules completely out the window. We need more scary movies like this. Here's a quick synopsis: A killer is stalking and killing the teenagers of Cherry Falls, Virginia. The common link between them all? They were all virgins. The students of CFHS decide the only way to live to stay off the hit list is to lose their innocence. Cool notion, huh? The performances were great. Brittany Murphy was awesome in this completely underrated role. Michael Biehn ("The Terminator," TV's "Adeventure, Inc."), as the town sheriff, gave a convincing performance of a good guy trying to right a wronged past. Candy Clark ("American Graffiti") does a good turn as Brittany Murphy's mom. For those of you who like trivia, look for Jesse Bradford ("Swimfan") and Clementine Ford (Cybill Shepherd's daughter, "Bring It On"). They have small parts. This DVD is not uncut as I had hoped, but it is worth the buy for the double feature. Check it out. You just might see something you like.

Terror Tract...This is a quirky little horror-comedy that resignates somewhere just behind my heart...But that might be because I spent time on the set picking up cigarrette butts. And ever since those days, I have been inexplecibly running into Carmine Geovanazzio on a semi-regular basis, yet he has no idea who I am. And that's okay. ...

Carmine stars as one married girl's lover. They kill the husband and dump him into a lake directly across from the scene of all those "Crocodile" killings in what was originally titled TOBE HOOPER'S FLAT DOG. Both movies where shooting in the same place at the same time. I suggest a triple feature of CROCODILE, CHERRY FALLS, & Terror Tract...Just make sure you stretch the viewing over the course of about three years, so as to digest it all.

The main bulk of Terror Tract deals with John Ritter acting as a tour guide in a house tract. Each home comes with it's own horror story, the best dealing with a rabid monkey. This is a fast paced little film that means well. It's not exactly the type of thing I would pick up when breezing through the video store, but hey...It's got my name in the credits!!

Cherry Falls, on the other hand, is a movie I'd been waiting to see for awhile. Over the course of the last six months, I'd heard nothing but good things about this film from such reliable sources as Fangoria & gorepeergroup.com. I was surprised to see it headed straight for video, since it does weight in as one of the more enjoyable, most original slasher flicks that has come out in the wake of Scream. It's about a serial killer who has an appitite for gutting young Virgins. If you got a shark in the water...You don't go swimming. If your a young virgin and you don't want to die? I see a simple solution...See this MOVIE!!

Wow, I just got done watching this "Frightmare Double Feature" and I was very pleased..., I went against my better judgment and bought this DVD after reading some semi-positive reviews of both movies. I was very pleasantly surprised!

I watched Terror Tract first, because I was sure it would be the more superfluous of the two movies (it's got John Ritter in it for God's sake). But it actually turned out to be an anthology film (like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt) with three very entertaining short stories interwoven by a disturbing wraparound sequence featuring Ritter trying to sell houses in a community that is not all that it appears to be. Each story, including the wraparound-Ritter sequences, has a strong (sometimes familiar) story with a surprising, satisfying ending. It's a fun movie...not really a fun as in "comedy", but it's a good, fun, vengeful-dead-husband-evil-monkey-psycho-granny-killer horror.

Cherry Falls was also a real treat. It's a straight horror movie that borrows from about every recent Scream-esque film out there, and then adds some surprising twists to keep it fresh. There's no annoying fake "jump" scares (well, maybe one), the killer's motives actually make sense, and the whole movie has an air of paranoia about it. It really keeps you guessing as the script is very solid and the acting is all-around excellent.

Both movies are in anamorphic widescreen (with a surprisingly strong Dolby 2.0 audio track...the thunderstorm in the Terror Tract Evil-Monkey story sounds awesome) and are on the same side of the disc. There are no extras except scene selection...HIGHLY recommended!!

I just wanted to say that firstly i REALLY enjoyed Cherry Falls, as this is the only exception to what most people would consider "Crap BECAUSE it's a tv-movie". It is actually quite enjoyable.

Just a quick note though, i HATE the fact that EVERYONE compares horror movies to "Scream". DUH! Not all horror films are MEANT to be like scream. Personally, i have grown to HATE scream due to the fact that people discredit "legitimate" slasher movies like I know what you did last summer, urban legend and now Cherry Falls, just because they've "seen" Scream and suddenly think that that's the holy grail of horror films. GET A LIFE!

It makes me ill that people think just because they've seen scream they're suddenly a horror expert! I see people hate Halloween H20 just because michael myers keeps coming back from the dead. DUH! he's michael myers. Why don't you check out all the other sequels where he keeps coming back from the dead. Although unrealistic, it IS warrented, and all you horror fan wannabe's out there that think otherwise can go jump for all i care.

As you can see, i am rather passionate on this issue. If you wanna see some REAL horror movies, check out Black Christmas, The House On Sorority Row, Re-Animator>, The Hills Have Eyes, The Exorcist, Hellraiser, Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Evil Dead, Night Of The Living Dead (and the rest of the Dead trilogy). <b>ONLY THEN</b> can you even think about decently posting thoughts on horror flicks, rather than just stating "Not as good as Scream". Bah Humbug!

This DVD contains 2 more obscure Horror Films that never made it to the theatre.

Cherry Falls- starring Brittany Murphy & Jay Mohr

Plot- The town of Cherry Falls is shocked when a killer starts offing the teenage population, which happen to all be Virgins. When the students learn about the killers modus operandi, they throw a ''Pop Your Cherry Ball'' where the students can surrender their virginity. This movie is rare in the fact its usually the ones who are having the sex who are offed first, this time it's the virgins. This film was also recommended in Fangoria's '100 Horror Films youve never seen'. Overall, its a decent horror film with a different twist to it.

Terror Tract- starring John Ritter
Now this one was suprisiningly unique. This is a Creepshow like film, except it dosent have the cartoons with the stories.

Plot- A real estate agent is showing a couple around town who are looking to buy a home. Every home they go to seems to have some terrible murder that happened in it. John starts telling the creepy stories when he gets in the house and is showing them around.

Story One 'First House'- About a couple having an affair and some crazy husband or lover who finds them together. They put him in the lake but he ends up coming back. And a twist at the end. Pretty good story but not as scary as the other 2.

Story Two 'Second House'- Wow, this story was good and creepy, I sure wouldnt buy the house after hearing this one. Its about an evil monkey a little girl finds in her tree outside. Her dad lets her keep it in the house for a little bit but still has a feeling theres something wrong with the monkey when he starts biting him and throwing stuff at the dog. He finally gets fed up and wants the monkey out but the monkey wont leave and he starts trying all kinds of tricks to get him out, but the monkey keeps returning and the ending is brutal! This story makes me feel different about monkies now. Excellent story.

Story Three 'Third House'- This story is about a teenager whos having premonitions of a murderer on the loose and seeing pyschic visions of the killings. Hes worried the killer will strike again and is getting feelings so he goes to some therapist lady to tell her. This story would have been great as a whole film. The 'killer' in this film is so scary. Hes called ''granny'' and wears a granny mask that is one of the most frightening masks ive ever seen a killer wear. Whenever he kills he says ' Dont worry, its only Granny!!' then he kills them with an ax or a knife. This one was great.

Then the ending where Ritter has to make the sale of a home before the days up but the couple is so freaked out they dont want to buy a home now. The ending was a twist and it was funny at the same time.

4 stars for Terror Tract, Highly Recommended.

Yeah, the movie Cherry Falls seems a little strange making a mini-skirted killer killing virgins of a local high school in Cherry Falls. I like this movie and it's totally better than scream and much smarter also. There is blood and guts, but not much, since it was edited for TV. This movie was going to make it to theaters, but since it the movie was going to have an
NC-17 rating, so they cut it down to an R rating, but the movie got sold to USA NETWORK. You can read the script on the internet, and it was so much better than the movie, but this movie is ok. The characters are hip, Brittany Murphy has black hair in this move, which is alot like Neve Campbell's in scream, but this movie is like Scream in a way. But much better.

Good movie, you can watch this movie on USA on Halloween, or SCI-FI, or you can buy it.

This is a amazing dvd both movies are amazing. u will enjoy them both. there are both scary and entertaining in there own way. 5 stars.

Cherry Falls had a unique storyline and is very funny. However, I wouldn't call it horror because all the gore is edited out of the film. Yes, the swearing is intact but the gore is cut out. I read in Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen that the film was originally NC-17 and to be released in theaters yet something happened and it got sold to USA Network where it was butchered. Since one of the credits on the dvd is USA Network, I believe that this is the copy you see on tv with the language intact. It was a funny movie no doubt but i'd like to see the full, gore intact version. However, I dont see many people wanting it.

Terror Tract is a good movie. It has John Ritter as a house salesman who tells poetintal home owners about the horrors that happened there. It was a very good movie but I cant tell if it's edited because I was a made for tv film.

Overall, Cherry Falls is a funny movie with a unique story to tell. Even though it's edited, it may be the only way to see it. I know they have region 2 dvds of Cherry Falls but I dont know if those are edited for content. Terror Tract was a very good movie though.

im so glad i could find this movie on here....i had seen it years ago and loved it and never could find it again.....plus it came with another short movie....and for very little money too.....this was def. a steal!