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Cherry Falls/Terror Tract

Cherry Falls/Terror Tract

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Would you buy a home from John Ritter?
Review: 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!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An amusing black comedy thriller
Review: The blurb on the liner notes for "Cherry Falls" reads "American Pie with a body count!" True enough... The movie falls short of being a truly entertaining tongue-in-cheek slasher thriller like the Scream trilogy, but it's still a lot of fun. A killer is stalking high school students in the little town of Cherry Falls, VA. But the victims are all virgins. This leads to some wry comedy, especially the scene where the inexperienced female students get a little pep talk from one of the school tramps. There's plenty of laughs, and a few genuinely creepy moments, especially the scenes inside the school at night. Stars include Brittany Murphy (Clueless, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens) as her father, the town sherrif, and Jay Mohr (Go, 200 Cigarettes) as the concerned teacher.

If you're a fan of black comedy and teen slasher flicks, you won't be disappointed. "Cherry Falls" doesn't have the cool casts and slick style of other recent flicks like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" or "The Faculty," but I found it to be much more entertaining because, unlike those other films, this one doesn't take itself too seriously.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: two great movies to watch!
Review: this double feature movie is good to watch. I personally, like the movie terror tract... all the stories in this feature is scary and will keep you in suspense through-out the movie. the other feature is cherry falls... a very good suspense flick! if you like a good suspense movie, you should enjoy this one. a must see!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Best DVD purchase in months!
Review: THIS IS A GREAT DOUBLE FEATURE DVD ..JUST TWO COOL FLICKS FOR ANY WEEKEND DOUBLE FEATURE. IF YOU ARE INTO "SCREAM" TYPE HORROR YOU'LL GET INTO THIS. "CHERRY FALLS" IS A TWISTED TALE THAT INVOLVES A VERY DISTURBED PSYCHO-PATH WHO MURDERS YOUNG VIRGINS (A TWIST ON SLASHER MOVIES.), AND "TERROR TRACT" IS ONE MOVIE THAT TELLS FOUR STORIES OF TERROR IN THE SAME TWISTED NEIGHBORHOOD. CHERRY FALLS STARS BRITTANY MURPHY, MICHAEL BIEHN AND JAY MOHR. TERROR TRACT STARS JOHN RITTER, BRYAN CRANSON (DAD IN MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE), AND RACHEL YORK. RECOMMENDED TO HORROR FANS.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: CHERRY FALLS review
Review: When two teens are brutally killed, the small town of Cherry Falls starts to suspect that a serial killer is knocking off young, high school virgins. Oddball teen slasher/black comedy is typically familiar but a good cast, sharp script and stylish direction makes this a more entertaining effort than the modern genre fodder. Made for cable. American debut for Australian filmmaker Wright.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: terror tract and cherry falls, caught me by surprise
Review: where did these movies come from? couldn't believe what a pleasant surprises these two movies turned out to be! took a chance on buying this DVD and it really paid off! don't give out a lot of five star ratings but these movies definitely deserve five stars, can't think of a reason not to give them five stars. both flicks were very entertaining with plenty of suspense and great acting all around by jay mohr and john ritter. havn't seen those two in anything for a while it seems like. love the ending to both movies too, two great flicks! a must buy for that price!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: terror tract and cherry falls, caught me by surprise
Review: where did these movies come from? couldn't believe what a pleasant surprises these two movies turned out to be! took a chance on buying this DVD and it really paid off! don't give out a lot of five star ratings but these movies definitely deserve five stars, can't think of a reason not to give them five stars. both flicks were very entertaining with plenty of suspense and great acting all around by jay mohr and john ritter. havn't seen those two in anything for a while it seems like. love the ending to both movies too, two great flicks! a must buy for that price!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 3 hours of terror! :)
Review: 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!!


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