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Urban Legend
Why this pick
A campus-set whodunit slasher with a similarly playful interest in teenage anxieties, gossip, and the rules people use to explain a killer’s pattern.
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MOVIE2000 1h 32m USA
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Tragedy Girls
Why this pick
Its bright high-school setting and sharp, knowingly cruel humor update the teen slasher into a satirical game about image-making, friendship, and murder.
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The Faculty
Why this pick
Like Cherry Falls, it turns a familiar American high school into a tense, suspicious pressure cooker, balancing teen banter, paranoia, and brisk genre thrills.
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Scream
Why this pick
A clever teen slasher mystery whose self-awareness never overwhelms its suspense, featuring a strong heroine and a shifting web of suspects.
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Freaky
Why this pick
It shares Cherry Falls’ cheeky sexual politics and high-school slasher energy, while using a body-swap premise to make its heroine’s survival story unusually lively.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired female appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenager Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy), the daughter of the local sheriff, is with her boyfriend, Kenny (Gabriel Mann), who thinks it is time to go "see other people." Jody goes back home to find her father, Brent (Michael Biehn), upset that she is out past her curfew. Brent and his deputies begin to investigate the murders the next day. They see that the killer carved the word "virgin" into both victims. At school, Brent sees English teacher Mr. Leonard Marliston (Jay Mohr), who urges him to divulge more details of the murder to students and the town so as to eliminate the possibility of secrets.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jesse Bradford
Rod Harper
Joannah Portman
Sharon
Bre Blair
Stacy Twelfmann
Joe Inscoe
Tom Sisler, Principal
Vicki Davis
Heather
Clementine Ford
Annette Duwald
Michael Goodwin
Mr. Duwald
DJ Qualls
Wally