Movie Review - Cut (2000)

CUT (2000)

 

Lecturer: We are so lucky today. We're lucky because we're here to see the most exciting screening of a very rare film. You may have read about it in the newspapers, because there was this so-called "curse" on the film. And that was that every time anybody tried to complete the film, someone died. In any case, this print is the only print in existence and we are really lucky to be able to see it today. All right, nothin' more to say. Here we go, let's roll it!

So you can imagine my dissapointment a couple of months ago when i'm on my slasher/horror movie watching spree that i've rocked up to the video store excited at the prospect of seeing a lil australia slasher flick made in my hometown of Adelaide that i hadn't seen in over 10 years !!!! only to discover that the video store only had a VHS copy of the movie, now i was bought up in the days of VHS and it was ON VHS that i first saw this movie, but i haven't owned a VCR for at least 10 years if not more !!!

 

So after leaving the video store, the store OWNER even attempted a search of his suppliers to see if he could even find me a copy on DVD i could purchase only to no avail on his end, so saldy i trundled home (i did hire a bunch of dvds but i sure as hell can't remember the ones i'd borrowed that day) anyway a couple of days later i've logged onto Ebay an thought to myself, i wander, typing in the name of the DVD 'Cut' and you get a million different movies that are directors 'cut' so i've procceded to add on the likes of 'Kylie Minogue and Molly Ringwald the two 'main' notable stars of the movie, and can you imagine the thrill and excitement i felt when there was a DVD copy for sale on ebay!!

 

So finally a week ago with the money saved up (it wasn't that expensive on ebay but when ya gotta pay bills and rent and everything else something as simple and a coveted DVD needs to be saved for) i purchased my copy on ebay and 4 days later i went too my mail box and nearly cried with happiness when i opened the package to see my copy of cut all shiney and new sitting there waiting for me!!

 

 

To start with i'll explain a little of the story, the movie begins with Vanessa (played by the lovely Molly RIngwald) doing a scene for a movie by director Hilary Jacobs (played by the also lovely Kylie Minogue) the scene is ruined by the guy playing the killed in the mask when he forgets to rip open Vanessa blouse before sliting her throat which leads to Hilary screaming at the guy in front of all the cast and crews, this upsets him enough that he goes and visits Hilary in the litte out house where shes staying and proceedes to kill her by cutting off her tounge, Vanessa walks in and manages to kill him before he kills her and then we cut to 12 years later (i think i can't remember lol)

 

We then met a bunch of film school students whos teacher worked on the set of the movie called hot blooded that never got finished because of the death of its director, the film school students decide they want to finish making the movie even at the insistances of their teacher that they just leave well enough alone, there are stories of a curse on the movie, that anyone who tries to finish the movie is killed, and so brings us into the story of a bunch of films students who return to the remote location to finish the movie once and for all, even roping in the original B grade actresse Vanessa, resulting in lots of carnage on the set of the movie.

 

Okay so, i vaguley remembered this movie form when i first saw it years ago, this one goes in with Valentine (which i just recently rewatched and reviewed) of the beginnings of my love for slasher flicks, though this film is slasher-esque its not your all out stalk n slash film, but i remember so much loving this movie like 10 or 12 years ago when i first saw it, that i was excited to see it again.

to help you understand, most movies these days are so big with the shows of blood guts and gore, your pretty used to seeing it straight off the bat shoved in your face, but Cut was like a Firday the 13th or other slasher flicks of the 80s, slow buring in its build up to the kills, but once it gets there look out !!, though not so bloody and gory its actually a well done film for its kind, with the supernatural twist in it which is why i dont' see it as an all out stalk n slash movie, it has its typical problems that all movies do the pacing does become slow in the beginning and i started wandering what i loved so much about this movie, till it gets to later in the film and i realized i'd blocked at the first half of the movie and only remembered the second half when the killing starts !!

 

(Lovely australian actress Jessica Napier plays Raffy the film student director who wants to finish the movie)

 

I finially watched cut like i do a friday the 13th movie loving it for the sheer fact that it's different from the movies of today, and that they hold a special something that movies today really dont have. I've read a few reviews on this movie as well and it gets a pretty good review from people, though most do note how slow it is to get going and its certain other pit falls, but it still is better then it should have been !! and that makes me proud because its an Australian film for a start and it was filmed in my home town of Adelaide South Australia so i feel a bit protective of this movie too.

 

There are some really good austrlaian acting in this movie, a massive draw card of this movie at its time was the starring role of Kylie Minogue (very popular Australian singer who's been around for YEARS and even stared in australian tv show called neighbours) though her role amounted to about 20 minutes at the start of the movies before she gets killed off, but what i loved seeing was an older Molly RIngwald starring as the B grade actress Vanessa, and she did a brilliant job in this role, i love her from her days of 80's girly movies like Sixteen Candles and The breakfast club (my absolute FAVE girly movie).

 

 

The kills in the movie follow fairly well with a friday the 13th movie, there's a beheading that happens off camera adn then you see the head roll onto the ground and then a chick tries escaping the killer but all the doors and miraculously 'locked' and she can't get away and then he throws a huge carving knife nailing her to the door and few feet off the ground. there's a really gruesome scene of one of the girls trying to escape the killer and trys to hide in the woodshed only for the killer to find a way in and shove her head into an automatic wood cutter. and the camera pans to outside the woodshed and you see the massive blood splatter across the window below the wood cutter. by then end though when we get another beheading, you only see it sillouheted on the wall and then you get like the tiniest amount of blood spray on the wall so i'm guessing by this point they'd run out of fake blood and money to make it much bigger then that lol.

 

but all in all it is a good movie, though slow to begin with if you just push to get through the beginning and get to the middle of the movie when all the mayhem and killing starts its a great fun little movie well made for its calibre and actually is better then people do expect it to be in the end.

I do totally recommend you see this movie if you can, it is actually a hard movie to find and i live in the town it was freaking made in and it was hard for ME to find, but if you do happen to stumble across a copy its definatly one of those good put your feet up and watch cause ya don't need to think so much to get through it and its all great fun and you will possibly find yourself reminiscent of watching a friday the 13th.