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Finally a non-typical-big-hollywood-studio slasher/comedy!!!, September 20, 2006
This review is from: Cutting Room (DVD)
I went to a screening of Cutting Room a couple of months and I was extremely pleased to finally see a cool horror movie which doesn't take itself too seriously and pokes fun at the whole "Hollywood machine", I'm very happy to see that it's finally coming out on DVD.
The characters are incredibly twisted and intriguing, and you won't see the twist coming. I really enjoyed sitting through the film and watching as the bizarre story unfolded.
DVD's on my wish list and I can't wait until October 17!
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A Comedic Horror Flick that Twists & Turns, November 21, 2006
This review is from: Cutting Room (DVD)
Comedy in a Horror flick? Yep and there's no stopping this film from becoming a cult classic - Richard T. Jones and John Polito were superb, just great to see them bring those characters to life. Buy it and rent it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
the perils of making a slasher flick..., October 15, 2011
This review is from: Cutting Room (DVD)
With a wacky offbeat plot, and some goofy characters, you may not be sure just where the horror/comedy Cutting Room (2006) is headed. While you may not be very frightened, hopefully at the finish you will at least be mildly entertained by the violence, and the film's semi-serious tone.
Charles Drake (Weetus Cren) is a movie producer struggling get his new horror flick made. Writer Ed Smith (Mark Elias) is still hammering out the screenplay. Drake, Smith, and casting director Joanne Kramer (Elizabeth Daily) are trying to complete casting for the film, and get big star Brock Steele (Dimitri Lekkos) signed to play the lead. Drake is under pressure to sign Steele, because he's the one that Steve (Richard T. Jones), the film's distributor wants in the film.
Things don't go well for Drake, as Steele decides to work on another project, and then is mysteriously murdered, so Drake has to go with sitcom star Nicky Dorfman (Garrison Koch) instead. Next, Steele's agent Sandy Grossman (Jon Polito) is strangled in his office. About the only positive development is the casting of Drake's airheaded assistant Mindy (Lindsay Labrum) as one of the victims in the film, because of her ability to scream.
A spoof similar in spirit to the program Sledgehammer, Cutting Room utilizes a lot of weird camera angles, and features an assortment of weird cartoonish characters using dizzy sounding dialog, and then bumps some them off in bizarre or semi-stylized fashion. The police are involved, but no serious attempt is made to solve the crime. Eventually with Drake turning investigator, the action narrows down to the production offices at the movie studio, for an ending with a twist. If a very lightweight campy killing spree doesn't tickle your fancy, you probably won't find this film to your liking. The acting is overplayed, and the exaggerated attempts at humor, not always effective. Although the production values are decent, the quirky style of cinematography is overdone a bit.
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