A killer begins to stalk the actors of a low budget horror film, killing them off one by one.Molly Ringwald appears as a diva actress, Kylie Minogue is also here (not sure where exactly in her career this falls). And we have a very cool killer mask. What else? The movie is actually fairly decent. Not great, not one that is going to become a classic, but a decent take on the slasher genre and a film that successfully rides the coattails of "Scream". The idea of a cursed film that needs to be finished is nice -- maybe not completely original, but a good combination with the slasher aspects.I simply have no idea what more to say. The film is not a deep one -- college kids in a big house and they are getting killed. It looks slick, maybe a little bit cheaply made but not bad. Disposable, but worth a peek for horror aficionados.

A film crew hoping to complete an unfinished, notorious horror flick, with a reputation for anyone's seeing it being killed, is hunted and killed one by one thanks to the psycho from the film. I didn't stutter..that's the ridiculous premise. A character in the film informs us that the killer is the sum total of all the creative energy that went into the making of "Hot Blooded", the slasher flick being helmed by a stern female director who was murdered by her actor donning the psycho's mask. Okey dokey. So we watch as this supernatural slayer from a film strip slaughters the young student crew, newly removed from the film school ready and ripe for being sliced & diced. There's an assortment of bloody violence on display as the killer uses his garden shears to behead and stab. He doesn't just use his shears..he often burns people with lit petrol and even uses a meat cleaver at one point.Molly Ringwald, out of all people, is the name carrying the picture as a bitchy lead actress who orders everyone around while griping and complaining endlessly. Why is Ringwald in this tripe? Is it a sign of a career on the skids, coming off the rails? Nah, this is merely a hiccup in her career, but one that really echoes loudly. This slasher flick, besides it's laughable premise, is just a mechanical kill movie parading out cliché after cliché, just a bit more gory than the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer flicks populating the cinemas at the time CUT was made. Only exception besides a decent performance from Jessica Napier as the young female director Raffy, motivated to finish the film because of who her mother was, and some good melting effects at the end, can not compensate the by-the-numbers screenplay or a terrible twist which makes little sense if one questions just how the person was able to find a rare print if all the others were possibly destroyed.

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.

A student filmmaker enlists a B-grade actress (a delectably diva-ish MOLLY RINGWALD!) to complete the horror film that her mother (a dreadfully dull Kylie Minogue!) tried to make 12 years ago. It's a curious plot choice to say the least, as any Aussie horror fan knows that the genre is sadly lacking in women directors. The film has a curse on it, because Molly had to kill some psycho murderer on the original set. But she's back, because she needs the exposure. Unfortunately, the curse is still there and people start dying on the "set." Cut is an Aussie attempt at the modern "slasher," but unfortunately it doesn't bring anything new or exciting to the table. In fact, it rips half of Wes Craven's 90s filmography. Lots of film-world name-dropping a la "Scream" (except it's Aussie name-dropping--Jane Campion...see how this isn't as funny) and lots of "is this real or is this a movie" a la "New Nightmare." The editing is bad, the music is annoying, the effects are laughable, almost everything is bad about this. Fortunately, the film can have a sense of humor: at one point, a well-dressed girl in the movie crew says to the owner of the house they are filming at: "Don't worry, we'll treat your house as if it were our own," to which he responds, "that doesn't mean anything to me, you look like you live in a dump!" Ha! And Molly's ridiculous one-liners were enough to not regret renting this one. "You got any diet coke in here?" (as she rides in the film professor's car) and "Does anyone know where I can buy any tofu?" (the first thing she mutters on the set) and "Where the hell is my agent?" (oh wait, that's what I was thinking for her.)