Cry Baby Lane

Cry Baby Lane
Original 2000 SNICK broadcast/the Cry Baby Lane title card with its original rating
Genre	Comedy Fantasy Horror
Written by	Peter Lauer Bob Mittenthal
Directed by	Peter Lauer
Starring	Jase Blankfort Trey Rogers Frank Langella
Theme music composer	Andrew Barrett
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Albie Hecht Jerry Kupfer
Editor(s)	Doug Able
Running time	70 minutes
Production company(s)	Centre Street Productions Constant Communications Flying Mallet, Inc.
Distributor	Paramount Domestic Television
Budget	$800,000
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Original release	October 28, 2000

Cry Baby Lane (original teaser title: Someone Wants to Meet You) is a 2000 television film that premiered on Nickelodeon on the night of October 28, 2000. The film was never aired outside the United States nor dubbed into other languages. It did not get rebroadcast or receive a home entertainment release until 2011. Similar to the 2003 Nickelodeon film The Electric Piper, this film was also considered a lost film for over a decade since its original airing from 2000 during SNICK's Halloween special that was hosted by Melissa Joan Hart. It was widely believed to be withheld from rerelease because of controversies surrounding this film, but a Nickelodeon representative stated that the film had been merely forgotten. In 2011, a copy was discovered on Reddit and the ensuing reaction prompted TeenNick to re-air the film on October 31, 2011.

In its original U.S. airing, this TV movie was rated TV-Y7. It was re-rated TV-PG-V for moderate violence on its rerelease and in 2016, it was once again rerated to TV-G.

Andrew (Jase Blankfort) and his older brother Carl (Trey Rogers) enjoy listening to ghost stories that the local undertaker, Mr. Bennett (Frank Langella), tells them. One night Bennett tells the tale of a local farmer whose wife gave birth to conjoined twins, one being good-natured while the other was clearly evil. The farmer, ashamed of them, kept the twins locked in their room. Eventually the twins got sick from a liver disease and died together, so the farmer sawed them in half and buried the good twin in a cemetery and the bad twin in a shallow grave near the house, at the end of an old dirt road called Cry Baby Lane, as whoever is caught out there at night will hear the cries of the deceased twin. Later, Andrew, Carl, and a group of friends decide to hold a séance in the cemetery where the good twin is buried, but soon after the seance, a creepy phenomenon occurs around the town. When Andrew consults Mr. Bennett about it, he confesses that when the twins were separated, the farmer mixed up the twins and tossed the good one in the field and that the good twin is crying for help, not vengeance, and the bad twin possesses nearly everyone in town, and it is up to Andrew to stop him.