Remember when this movie first came out in the theaters and the posters & commercials pathetically advertised Kylie Minogue's name in giant letters; even bigger than the actual title? It was just hilarious to see that her role in "Cut" was nothing more than an extended cameo, and thank God she didn't sing one of her dull songs! Mrs. Minogue exclusively appears in the prologue of the story, as the female director of a slasher horror movie that needs to be aborted because the killer-character takes his job a little too serious. Some people die and "Hot Blooded" suddenly becomes a cursed project. Twelve years later, an assembly of ambitious film-students intends to complete the film and they even manage to re-cast the original female lead (Molly Ringwald). Of course, the ingeniously masked killer returns as well and finishes off the new crew one by one. "Cut" is an generally watchable new-age horror film (at least it's better than "Scream", "Urband Legend" or "I know what you did Last Summer"), but it remains pretty dumb and very clichéd. The opening sequences are pleasing, with a neat film-within-film structure and Hollywood inside-jokes, but then the whole thing quickly gets predictable and very déjà-vu. The death scenes are unimaginative and there's very little tension all together. The last half hour and especially the climax (as in: revelation of the killer's identity) are extremely disappointing and very, VERY stupid. Molly Ringwald is very good in her role as pretentious B-movie starlet but she doesn't get much help from the mediocre rest of the cast. "Cut" fits right in with the recent revival of typical 80's slashers, but they're nowhere near as shocking, bloody or nihilistic as they used to be.
