Larry Olivier The actors and crew of "Cut" have been locked in their yr10 drama studio since the 90's. Having had no access to films, and still too naïve to make opinions on script, cinematography, or performance, they've decided to make their own for a laugh.We're treated to a "hilarious" Laurel and Hardy style double-act between the two main characters. The rest of the characters are………..people. There are influences from lights, for lighting. The score has some music in. The gimmick one shot means we see plenty of those stairs, and thankfully it diminishes the time consuming process of making individual scenes with their own personality. There's also a "tour de force" from Danielle Lloyd in the opening five minutes that has nothing to do with the rest of the film. If you only like good films though, definitely buy this for the extras. The cast take it in turn to be David Brent, AND there's laugh a minute trip to Cannes featuring a healthy input from Quentin Tarantino!!Shocker!

Drew Blanc Think of all the worst films you've ever watched. Think of all the thoughtless scripts, awful scores, flat humour, ugly cinematography and cringe-worthy acting you've ever witnessed. Pretty bad eh? Now, you might be ready to watch 'Cut'. A warning to you though, you'll still be disappointed. Unless, of course, you're the enemy of creativity or you're one of those people who hates film (like the team behind this surely do).The basic plot; it's late at night, a group of friends are staying in a remote house in the countryside and they get terrorised by some psychopaths. Admittedly, with a premise like that, you're not going to expect anything groundbreaking, but it's no excuse for this garbage.You don't care what happens to any of the characters. They're hollow, their interactions unbelievable and their actions stupid. If they're so scared why do they constantly put themselves in danger and leave doors unlocked or open? Ahh yes, to let the camera through of course! The acting is like something off a school stage, inexcusable.Talking of school plays, the script sounds like it could've been written by a gormless Year 11 pupil and his mates, with its forced attempts at humour and its facile, unconvincing conversational parts. It reeks of a lack of observation.The sound isn't any better. Much of the dialogue is drowned out by the brainless score and the daft attempts to 'scare' the audience with loud crashes when lights go on or off are, laughably, ridiculous.The 'one take' gimmick fails as miserably as everything else. It's boring. It doesn't deliver on the claustrophobic thrill ride that it was supposed to, quite the opposite in fact. The camera bumbles around the house, doors are left self-consciously open, the journey up and down the stairway becomes painful, supported by the shots of the clock that let us, the stupid audience, know that they really are doing it in one take! The second marketing gimmick, Danielle Lloyd, appears in the first 5 sickening minutes of the film and on the cover, 'nuff said. She's diabolical, but at least she sets the scene for next hour perfectly.Apparently this film isn't a joke. Hard to believe I know! You might be forgiven in thinking that it's all a bit tongue in cheek, maybe even a misguided attempt at satire, until you watch the DVD extras that is. This is where you'll be left in no doubt about its seriousness. They seem to be under the impression that they've created something worthwhile, something important and that they've served up some fresh new talent for us and for British cinema along the way.Watch them if you can stand it, but pass me a bucket.

mushka83 I actually stumbled across Cut quite a while ago as I'm a huge fan of Joe Dante and was checking out what Zach Galligan was up to these days. I'm based in America and I bought the film on Amazon and I was really impressed. Zach looks great and yes the two main actresses go topless which is always a plus in my opinion! I forgot about the whole one shot thing pretty quickly and viewed the film normally. The plot gripped me enough, I was sufficiently on edge and drawn in by the characters. I did get one belting fright which I didn't see coming and I never saw the twist coming either so it definitely ticked plenty of boxes in terms of what I look for in films I love. I'm not saying it rocked my world but I'm certainly not asking for my money back.

John Callahan The title of the movie is 'Cut', leading viewers to believe that the film is a conventional horror flick, and that the killers and bad guys like to cut their victims. Similar to how the first SAW film involved someone using a saw to literally saw his own leg off. However with 'Cut' the title of the film has a closer relationship with the way that the movie is filmed, in that it is done in one seamless single take, there are no cuts or edits. At least with the visual portion of the film there aren't. According to the IMDb trivia section for the film it took 36 attempts before a final cut was satisfactorily completed.An interesting concept, to cut a horror film in a single take, but it's nothing revolutionary (plays have been recorded in one take and put to film for decades for example). The execution for the acting, directing, cinematography is actually alright for a movie done without a break from start to finish. The actors get their lines across convincingly, the special effects are well masked, the camera follows the action quite well. But things are never as good as they could be for a few reasons, some ridiculously bad decisions are made by the protagonists (a tired cliché for the horror genre), and the music is entirely distracting and almost comical.The basic premise of the film is that a group of friends take a vacation in a remote cabin or home and some psychopaths terrorize them. It's been done too many times before, the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th, The Strangers, the recent remake of Last House on the Left, and U.S. version of Funny Games, are four recent examples where a group of people, or a family, is terrorized by a few deranged individuals. Even the pizza delivery aspect of this film was just done in 'The House of the Devil' which came out only a few months ago. The only thing new about this film is the single take aspect. Every aspect of the plot is directly borrowed from some other film and it seems like the writers didn't even care.But the worst part of this film is without question the audio post production, specifically the music. I don't understand the idea of filming a movie in one take only to sabotage the entire affair by drowning out the dialog with blaring music and adding in loud orchestral stabs and hits to try to scare the audience. Early in the film a character turns out the lights to scare his friends, the flick of the light switch coincides with the loudest blast of trumpets and drums in the film, deliberately put there to scare the audience. I swear it sounded like a howitzer cannon was being fired next to my ear. Relying on such a lame tactic to scare the viewing audience was met with laughter from myself and all of my friends. And that cliché and obnoxious horror orchestral score that constantly leads the audience into when they should be scared or nervous is entirely distracting and comical in this film.Characters in this film cannot turn a door knob, open the curtains, or brush their teeth without a thunderous trumpet or drum hit absolutely erupting from the speakers. At one point a character approaches a curtain to open it, and it sounds as if the entire country of China is playing the violin. I guess the intent was to scare the viewing audience but everyone around me, and myself, mostly ended up laughing. I doubt eliciting laughter was the intention of the film's creators.And yes, like most modern horror movies, the characters are insanely stupid. Always splitting up into groups, failing to lock doors and windows, failing to secure themselves. And in general putting themselves in harm's way more often than not. The excuse that the film's writers will give is that the protagonists have been drinking all night and that's why they are acting dumb. They are drunk. But the actors are clearly sober in the film and not once do they slur any of their words and they seem to have complete control over their motor functions.If you are into film production or writing, or are a big horror fan, then you should probably give this film a go. But if you're a casual movie person looking for a film to watch with friends then I can't recommend this really. A decent effort, maybe it will lead to better ideas, but nothing spectacular. 3/10