In 1985, a female director, Hillary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue) were attempt to make a horror movie called `Hot Blooded' stared an American actress, Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald). The horror comes alive when the guy who supposed to be playing the killer's character, Scarman, kills the director. Coincidently, Vanessa manages to deceased the killer too. Since that, the production is closed, until in 1999, a group of film student tries to re-shoot the film. The group led by the aspiring director Raffy Caruthers (Jessica Napier), and the producer Hester Ryan (Sarah Kants). Despite the warning of their professor, Lossman (Geoff Revell) who is ever involved in `The Hot Blooded' before, they insist to make it once again. They even succeed to ask Vanessa to reprise her character on that movie once again. When the filming begin, and so does the terror. The supposed to be death Scarman is back and starts to kill the crew. With a novel and twisted finale, rest of them tried to survive before they become part of film it self.
Horror movies in the American ways are in the gate of their lifeless because the stagnant theme and predictable plot they have. Rather than make an eerie and dark atmosphere on it, they choose to make those gross bloodbath. There is no surprise or chill factor that the viewers can take home and even manage to still make them creeping in their very house. Since America movies or Hollywood now became a standard for the global film industry, that's why that syndrome is affected this Australian flick.
I realized that, it is homage to the 80's slasher and that fit the hole of the film structure. Nevertheless, the director is hard to make that `Scream's rules' in his feature, and it made this film lack of any originality and nothing than another dull slasher and a mandatory cliché slasher, that pointless and meaningless in film ways. Certainly, cannot expect more.
In the acting department, Molly Ringwald is okay as the led actress. However, the rest of the main characters, especially Jessica Napier and Sarah Kants are annoying the screen as if they are trying hard to act (and I couldn't believe Kylie Minogue as a cameo).
`Cut', is an average slasher film, and meant to be a comical homage to the earlier. Anyway, the film fairly manages grip to the narrative and still entertaining enough, and that's all. You cannot expect an award winning entertainment from this feature. If you a slasher fanatic and only want to be cheer, it is a fine result.
6/10