Cut (2000 film)
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| Directed by | Kimble Rendall |
| Written by | Dave Warner |
| Produced by | Bill Bennett Martin Fabinyi Jennifer Cluff |
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| Cinematography | David Foreman |
| Edited by | Henry Dangar |
| Music by | Guy Gross |
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| Distributed by | Mushroom Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Cut is a 2000 Australian slasher film directed by Kimble Rendall and starring Kylie Minogue, Molly Ringwald, Jessica Napier, and Tiriel Mora.[1]
Plot
The movie begins with a mother cooking food in the kitchen stove and calling out to her kids about dinner, before leaving the house somewhere. The mother's daughter Chloe (Molly Ringwald) goes upstairs into her room, petting her cat, and starts taking a shower. Chloe finds "Now you die." written on the fogged up mirror in the bathroom, but she think it's her little brother doing it. After finding her cat dead on her bed, she answers her telephone that starts ringing, hearing a man's voice saying "Now you die." and locks her door as someone bangs on it. Chloe runs back to the bathroom to break a glass bottle to use as a weapon.
A masked man dressed in a boiler suit with modified hedge clippers, Scarman (Frank Roberts) breaks into her room. He corners her into a wall and slits her throat. This whole thing turns out to be a slasher movie called Hot Blooded being filmed by director Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue). Chloe is an actress named Vanessa Turnbill and Scarman is an actor named Brad. Hilary treats Brad horribly in front of everyone because he made a mistake during filming. Vanessa isn't nice to Brad either and threatens him if he tries to touch her again, then screams for another crew member Lossman (Geoff Revel) to get her a coke.
Later on, Brad who is still in his costume goes to see Hillary in her office because he is angry she embarrassed him in front of everyone. Hilary fires him, but Brad puts on the Scarman mask, cuts off his own pinky finger with his hedge clippers. This scares Hilary and he murders her by cutting off her tongue. Vanessa comes in to discuss something with Hilary and Brad attacks her, which they both struggle over the hedge clippers. Lossman comes in just as Vanessa gets a hold of the hedge clippers and stabs Brad through the neck, killing him. For some reason weird electrify flashes around Brad's body.
12 years later, college students and amatuer filmmakers Raffy Carruthers (Jessica Napier), Hester Ryan (Sarah Kants), Damien Ogle (Sam Lewis), Julie Bardot (Cathy Adamek), Rick Stephens (Stephen Curry), Cassie Woolf (Erika Walters), Paulie Morrelli (Matthew Russell), and Jim Pilonski (Steve Greig) want to finish the Hot Blooded movie, but their college professor who is Lossman warns them not to.
The group are able to contact Vanessa who is now a golf player through her manager (Paul Blackwell) and she eventually agrees to be in the movie again. They get the rights and copy of the movie from an old woman Martha (Phyllis Burford). Another friend Bobby Doog (Simon Bossell) joins the movie and plays Scarman. The group all go to a theater and watch the copy of Hot Blooded. Vanessa leaves, then Raffy notices blood on the floor and finds everyone around her dead. Scarman grabs her, but it's really Bobby and the whole thing was a prank, which angers Raffy.
At her hotel room, Raffy and Brad make up and have sex. The real scarman shows up at theater and disembowels the Archives Projectionist (Tiriel Mora), then two cops Detective Hollander (Peter Green) and Detective Lucy Carter (Caroline Minon) investigate the crime scene and link it back to older murders where other people watched a copy of Hot Blooded and were found dead.
The owner Mr. Drivett (Edwin Hodgeman) who is now the owner of the mansion where Hot Blooded was originally filmed let's the group stay to film their movie. While everyone is preparing for the movie, Scarman lurks around and Bobby starts acting weird in the Scarman costume. Paulie and Cassie sneak off into the kitchen and are about to have sex, when Scarman decapitates Paulie with a cleaver, then throws the cleaver to Cassie's chest, pinning her against a door.
The next day, Hollander and Carter find the group and question Raffy and Hester over the death at theater. They have no clue on who would be trying to stop them from finishing the movie. Raffy has a bad feeling about Paulie and Cassie, and everything, but Hester convinces her that it's nothing to worry about, so they continue filming the movie. Jim goes to leave in the bus to town to get more things for movie, but Scarman slits his throat with his hedge clippers.
Vanessa is rehearsing her kill scene as the mother in the movie with Raffy, Damien, Julie, and Rick, but Bobby dressed as Scarmam suddenly gets too rough with her. Then a fight starts with Rick and Damien when he makes a vulgar joke about him and Raffy, so everyone takes a break. Hester realizes that Cassie and Paulie have been gone too long and goes outside to call the police on her phone, but there is still no signal. Suddenly, Cassie's body falls from the tree into her. She gets up and runs into Scarman who attacks her. Hester escapes and is chased into a woodshed, where she tries to fight Scarman with a hacksaw, but he overpowers her and decapitates her with a wood cutting machine.
Lossman and Raffy have a conversation and it's revealed Raffy is the daughter of Hilary Jacobs. She wants to honor her mother by finishing the movie. Afterwards, both of them discover all tires of their cars and even the bus have been slashed, but they assume it's the locals pulling cruel pranks on them. Brad is in his changing room, and is stabbed in the stomach and has his throat with slit with the hedge clippers by Scarman, who then takes his place to pretend to be him. Raffy, Damien, Julie, and Rick prepare filming for Vanessa's death scene in the movie, then Scarman pretending to be Bobby with the real hedge clippers show up, getting ready to kill her.
A scared Martha shows up in her car at the mansion and warns Lossman that the movie is evil and it needs to be destroyed to stop Scarman. He runs back inside telling the others, just as Scarman almost kills Vanessa and everyone runs outside, while Martha runs upstairs to go find the copy of the movies. Damien thinks Bobby is getting too much into character, so he keeps filming through the camera and he is killed when Scarman stabs him through the eye with his hedge clippers. Lossman goes back inside to find Martha because she has the keys to the only working car.
Julie and Rick stay in the car, while Vanessa and Raffy go back inside the mansion and a loud scream is heard coming from upstairs. Back in the car, Rick admits he really liked Julie, but she rejects him. Scarman shows up and starts pouring gasoline all over the car. Julie attempts to runaway, but she gets gasoline on her when she falls over, then Scarman lights her on fire, burning her to death. Scarman then lights the car on fire and it explodes, killing Rick inside.
After getting knives from the kitchen, Vanessa and Raffy go upstairs to an office. They find Mr. Drivett tied upside down and disemboweled with his little dog licking his blood up. Martha also had a stroke when she saw his body and Lossman has been trying to revive her, but she dies anyway. The three of them find the copies of the movie, but they all accidentally slip down the stairs. Scarman shows up and stabs Lossman through the throat with a wooden pole. Vanessa distracts Scarman, while Raffy takes the movies and runs outside. Scarman chases Vanessa to the room where they both filmed the opening of Hot Blooded. They fight, but then Scarman knocks out Vanessa.
Hollander and Carter show up and find Raffy trying to burnin the movies in the burning car. They stop her and put her in a police car as she screams about the movie being evil. Hollander goes inside and shoots Scarman many times, but it doesn't kill him, and Scarman decapitates him with the hedge clippers. Carter goes inside when Hollander doesn't return and gets attacked by Scarman. She escapes him and runs outside behind the mansion, but he throws his hedge clippers to her back, making her fall, and she lands on an outdoor water faucet, getting impaled on it. Scarman finds Vanessa in the ground and starts pouring gasoline on her. Raffy gets out of the police car and continues burning the movies. Scarman starts melting, so he throws a lit match at Vanessa and she quickly crawls away as fire chases her.
Scarman goes after Raffy and attacks her, cutting her arm with the hedge clippers. Lossman, who is revealed to be alive, shows up to throw the rest of the movies into the fire, just as Scarman jumps on Raffy, getting ready to stab her in the throat. Scarman finally dies and melts into a pile of slimy substance next to Raffy. Lossman passes out as Raffy crawls over to him. A while later, Lossman and Raffy visit Vanessa, who survived the fire, at the hospital. They all talk about how Scarman is really dead and Vanessa is relieved about it. At another school, a college professor (Pamela Shaw), reveals to have found another copy of the movie Hot Blooded and plays the movie for her students. Scarman is brought back to life and shows up sitting behind the professor in the row of seats. He presumably kills everyone there as the movie ends.
Cast
| Actor / Actress | Character |
|---|---|
| Molly Ringwald | Vanessa Turnbill / Chloe |
| Jessica Napier | Raffy Carruthers - Director |
| Frank Roberts | Brad / Scarman |
| Kylie Minogue | Hilary Jacobs |
| Geoff Revell | Lossman |
| Simon Bossell | Bobby Doog |
| Stephen Curry | Rick Stephens - Sound |
| Sarah Kants | Hester Ryan - Producer |
| Cathy Adamek | Julie Bardot - Make-Up |
| Steve Greig | Jim Pilonski - Electrics |
| Sam Lewis | Damien Ogle - Cinematographer |
| Matt Russell | Paulie Morrelli - Boom Operator |
| Erika Walters | Cassie Woolf - Wardrobe |
| Phyllis Burford | Martha |
| Peter Green | Sen Det Hollander |
| Caroline Mignon | Detective Lucy Carter |
| Edwin Hodgeman | Mr. Drivett |
| Tiriel Mora | Archives Projectionist |
| Don Barker | Original Producer |
| Scott Heysen | Original Director |
| Bronwyn James | Forensic Supervisor |
| Pamela Shaw | Lecturer |
| Paul Blackwell | Vanessa's Manager |
| Huong Nguyen | Cleaner |
Production
The film was shot in South Australia in the Adelaide region.
Reception
Cut received negative reviews from critics and audiences, earning an 11% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 critic reviews.[2]
Box office
Cut grossed $501,979 at the box office in Australia.[3]
References
- ^ Saturday Nightmares: Cut (2000)
- ^ "Cut (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2010.