#147 - Cherry Falls

This movie...

See, I was like, how had we not seen this before? Like, when we first watched it, we watched it, like, what, for, like, a movie night a couple years back?

Mm-hmm.

And it turns out we had not seen this movie, and this had been a blind spot for us, kind of by design.

Now...

You know, I think some really intelligent people saw this movie and said, we can't release this.

Yeah.

Did you read any of the history of it?

Well, so I read that it was edited quite a bit down, but even still, especially, you know, what, 1999, right? This is post Columbine, which happened earlier that year.

I think anything, you know, like we saw with Scream 3, anything involving teenagers and death was...

Certainly going to be harder to digest with audiences.

So I know that it was eventually just not even put in theaters and put straight to video because of the violence and sex and death.

But I think also just because it's a bad movie.

Well, I think there's a lot of things that go into it.

So from what I read, this movie was planned to go to theaters.

Then, like you said, Columbine happened.

And for those of you who weren't alive at that time, it really fucked up horror movies for everybody, especially if it had to do with teenagers dying and if it had to do with violence in schools as well, which this movie does have a little bit of.

But I guess it was supposed to be supposed to be released in theaters.

I'm sure someone saw it and was like, yeah, this is not good.

We should not release it in theaters, but also heavily edited because they released it as like a made for TV movie, even though it wasn't made for TV.

So for, for a long while, it was the highest budgeted made for TV movie ever.

That had happened because it actually wasn't made for TV.

But fans of this movie think that it would be better if it had not been heavily edited to, you know, to kind of make it a little more digestible.

But I can't believe that this was that what's left of this movie was like, yeah, this is perfect for television.

Yeah.

This movie...

See, I was like, how had we not seen this before? Like, when we first watched it, we watched it, like, what, for, like, a movie night a couple years back?

Mm-hmm.

And it turns out we had not seen this movie, and this had been a blind spot for us, kind of by design.

Now...

You know, I think some really intelligent people saw this movie and said, we can't release this.

Yeah.

Did you read any of the history of it?

Well, so I read that it was edited quite a bit down, but even still, especially, you know, what, 1999, right? This is post Columbine, which happened earlier that year.

I think anything, you know, like we saw with Scream 3, anything involving teenagers and death was...

Certainly going to be harder to digest with audiences.

So I know that it was eventually just not even put in theaters and put straight to video because of the violence and sex and death.

But I think also just because it's a bad movie.

Well, I think there's a lot of things that go into it.

So from what I read, this movie was planned to go to theaters.

Then, like you said, Columbine happened.

And for those of you who weren't alive at that time, it really fucked up horror movies for everybody, especially if it had to do with teenagers dying and if it had to do with violence in schools as well, which this movie does have a little bit of.

But I guess it was supposed to be supposed to be released in theaters.

I'm sure someone saw it and was like, yeah, this is not good.

We should not release it in theaters, but also heavily edited because they released it as like a made for TV movie, even though it wasn't made for TV.

So for, for a long while, it was the highest budgeted made for TV movie ever.

That had happened because it actually wasn't made for TV.

But fans of this movie think that it would be better if it had not been heavily edited to, you know, to kind of make it a little more digestible.

But I can't believe that this was that what's left of this movie was like, yeah, this is perfect for television.

Yeah.