Cut: Cenas de Horror

I can see where this one can be called the Australian "Scream." Kind of has the same feel as these new "slasher" movies. The story's kinda weak, but if you're expectations are low, than this should prove entertaining. It was refreshing, too to actually see some of the bloody stuff, instead of all these cheezy "cut-away" murders lately. I thought the acting was pretty decent, but the killer's identity is pretty flimsy, not really explained too well. Overall though, I was pleasantly entertained by a new "b-movie" that I found to be much better than a lot of theatrical horror out there lately....6/10

plot: In 1985, the horror film "Hot Blooded" was being filmed, then the director, Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue) was brutally murdered by an actor (Frank Roberts). The film was shut down, uncomplete, but every time the footage was screened, someone else was horribly murdered. In the present, director Raffy Carruthers (Jessica Napier), and producer Hester Ryan (Sarah Kants) want to finish the film. They get the actress from when the film was first being shot, Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald) to play in it. But as they start to film, the killer comes out of the movie and into reality and starts to kill off the crew one by one.

review: This film was great, except after the killer takes his mask off. The gore, the acting, the directing, everything was great! But after the killer takes his mask off it turns to crap, but thats only like the last ten minutes!

9/10.

Another slasher where the victims put up no fight and the antagonist's supernatural nature isn't made apparent until the very end of the movie.

The main problem I have with Cut is the weak scripting of the characters. It's like everyone on set are all just passing time waiting for the pay check to come in, its so bad.

Music and tempo is actually the movies strong point especially the lighting. The whole set looks and feels great but everything else just falls apart. The script made all the actors look like dills. They should have called it Cringe.

Being a horror primarily Cut also falls short on creating any sense of discomfort. Again another horror where you don't care what happens because not one of the characters do anything intelligent and everyone is two dimensional.

The idea of a film crew being butchered while shooting a horror film has been done before (in the obscure 1986 flick "Return To Horror High", and probably some other time even before that). The idea of teens making "hip" references to other horror films of the past has been done before (in "Scream"). And so on...Yet, "Cut" is overall an entertaining movie, and if you don't pay more than a dollar to see it, you'll get your money's worth. In the first 20 minutes in particular the filmmakers seem to be onto something different, but then the movie gets increasingly derivative. Still, the special effects are good and Molly Ringwald is perfectly cast as the washed-up ex-B-movie queen. (**1/2)

A horror movie is being shot and things aren't going well. It's about a masked killer. The director tells off the killer in front of the cast and crew. He goes crazy and kills two people. He's killed himself and the film is never finished. Twelve years later a bunch of film students decide to try and finish it--but there's a curse. People who try and finish it are killed themselves. The students ignore that. Guess what happens next?

The plot is old hat but this isn't bad...for what it is (a low budget slasher film). It's well-made with a young and fairly talented young cast. No one is great but no one is terrible either. It also avoids the obligatory (and needless) female nude scenes. It moves quickly, the gore is nice and bloody and the script doesn't insult your intelligence. Also Molly Ringwald is in this having the time of her life playing a bitchy faded actress.

No great shakes but not bad at all. I give it a 7.