Cut

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.

I do like Australian horror movies, I'm surprised that I had not already seen this one. Don't think it had a UK DVD release so I got a copy on good old VHS. Not a great deal of plot here, but this is a slasher movie so that is quite normal. This one is about the making - or rather completion - of a slasher movie called Hot Blooded (sounds more like a porno to me!), that filming had ceased on back in that great slasher decade, the 1980's. Naturally people start getting killed, one by one... Not a bad film to be fair, the acting was OK, there are some gory deaths with a high enough kill count plus we get a body melt scene. Molly Ringwold, who appeared in several iconic 80's movies, adds a bit to the retro feel, but sadly Kylie Minogue has nothing more than a cameo, despite her name being highly billed. Scream is a too obvious influence, in fact it gets name checked, whilst Freddie Krueger too is here in pretty much all but name. Does build to a fun finale, certainly no classic but enjoyable enough.

I first saw this in a theater with my dad in the year 2k.

Cant recollect whether it was Sterling theatre, Regal or Eros cos all are situated in South Mumbai.

To be honest, i enjoyed the movie then but aft revisiting it recently, i found it to be dull n dumb.

The movie has dumb dialogues.

First a woman tells the killer to attack her to distract but when the killer comes close, she tells him to stay away as if the killer will listen to her.

A fella gets impaled by a water tap is way too ridiculous.

The effects are lousy n the rubber mask is way too obvious.

I dont kno why Kylie Minogue agreed to star in in this movie.

The movie has no tension n suspense n the kills ain't scary or gruesome.

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.

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)