Cut (2000 film)
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| Directed by | Kimble Rendall |
| Written by | Dave Warner |
| Produced by | Bill Bennett/Martin Fabinyi/Jennifer Cluff (as Jennifer Bennett) /Julia Overton/Mikael Borglund/Michael Gudinski/Gary Hamilton/Rainer Mockert (executive producer) |
| Starring | Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Geoff Revell, Frank Roberts, Simon Bossell, Tiriel Mora |
| Cinematography | David Foreman |
| Edited by | Henry Dangar |
| Music by | Guy Gross |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | January 2000 |
Running time | 82/98 min |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Cut is a 2000 slasher film made primarily in Australia but also shot in Germany and the USA.
Synopsis
In 1988, during the golden age of slashers, a film crew were making a classic style splatter film dubbed "Hot Blooded!". Fed up with Brad (Frank Roberts)'s on-screen antagonist's foul-ups, his director, Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue) publicly humiliates him and fires him on the spot in front of onlookers. Her further degrading of him (as he comes hoping for one more chance) in her office causes this actor to go berserk, self-mutilating himself before cutting out her tongue using the modified prop shears as his real-life signature weapon. Before he could harm anyone else, his co-star Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald) gives him a makeshift tracheotomy which ends in Brad being seemingly electrocuted as her P.A. man Lossman (Geoff Revell) looks on. But as Brad dies it seems he curses the source of all his current misery... Hot Blooded and all who would work on it. Now in present-day Australia, Lossman ia now a teacher is using his personal experiences as warnings to his students: telling them that any attempts to complete filming or even screening of Hot Blooded! has ended up with lives being lost in mysterious and disturbing ways (like a producer being suspiciously electrocuted in an editing room or a director mysteriously discovered with his throat slit). But some of his pupils decide such a chance is too much of a temptation and despite his better wishes they decide to do what others could not... by finishing off the film complete with its only surviving original star (lured back by the notoriety), with fatal results.
Cast
| Actor / Actress | Character |
|---|---|
| Molly Ringwald | Vanessa Turnbill / Chloe |
| Frank Roberts | Brad / Scarman |
| Kylie Minogue | Hilary Jacobs |
| Geoff Revell | Lossman |
| Simon Bossell | Bobby Doog |
| Jessica Napier | Raffy Carruthers |
| Stephen Curry | Rick Stephens |
| Sarah Kants | Hester Ryan |
| Steve Greig | Jim Pilonski |
| Sam Lewis | Damien Ogle |
| Matt Russell | Paulie Morrelli |
| Erika Walters | Cassie Woolf |
| 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 |
| Dominic Pedlar | TV Reporter |
| Patrick Frost | TV Reporter |
| Holly Myers | TV Reporter |
| Rebecca Green | Extra |
| Flower Knutas | Extra |
| Vanessa King | Extra |