Movie Where Man Cuts Womans Dress With Scissors
Gut-Wrenching
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Cutting Moments looks at how a suburban family is falling apart. Wife Sarah and husband Patrick have drifted apart and Patrick has been found guilty of abusing and raping young boys. We can see that he has absolutely no interest in or love for his wife Sarah, and that this family has completely fallen apart. Their young boy, Joey, seems to feel completely guilty and ashamed of what his father has become, but it is Patrick's wife Sarah who is emotionally outraged that she has let her husband become this monstrous paedophile by her unappealing, unsatisfactory sex life she provided him with. We see that Sarah completely blames herself for what Patrick has become and this makes us deeply sympathise for her. She goes through extreme lengths to try and make Patrick and the family happy; she tries to make conversation and tries to make everybody feel happy. She does everything a loving wife and mother should do, yet Patrick completely ignores her and doesn't appreciate this. In a last attempt to arouse her husband, Sarah dresses up in a beautiful red dress with matching lipstick. However, her attempt was unsuccessful as her husband doesn't notice her at all. Upset and outraged at herself, Sarah goes back to the bathroom and begins to rub the lipstick off of her lips. She rubs harder and harder, but she still can't get the shameful stuff off of her lips. It is still there in her mind. In a desperate attempt to clean herself, she picks up the nearby scouring pad and vigorously rubs and rubs at her lips as they start to scratch and bleed, frantically trying to remove this empty gesture. Then, in a final act, Sarah snips off her lips with a pair of scissors because she is so ashamed of herself. Afterwards she returns back to the lounge, where her husband finally recognises his wife's devotion to him; he finally recognises just how deeply she feels for him to do something like this. The then mutilate each others bodies in the bedroom, in a sadistic love scene. Cutting Moments uses shocking violence and gore to portray just how hellish family life can become and how painful a broken family can become. It uses cringe-worthy techniques to emphasise just how painful rejection and ignorance can make a person feel.
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A nerve-shredding experience.
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I saw this incredible horror/short during Horror Fiesta Film Festival in Warsaw as a part of three short horror films made by Douglas Buck called "Family Portraits:A Trilogy of America".The first short "Cutting Moments"(1997)simply blew me away.It's an incredibly depressing and cold journey into into family alienation,murder and masochistic self-mutilation.A young wife Sarah played convincingly by Nica Ray desperately wants to be loved,but her husband Gary Bettsworth has no remaining feelings for the woman,so he turns his jaded sexuality onto his son,whom he abuses.She dresses up in red to become more appealing to her husband(unsuccessfully)and after that Sarah horribly mutilates herself.She scrubs her lips bloody before cutting them off,the final act of utter desperation that encourages her husband to indulge into obscene act of feeling.A truly masterful short filled with despair and horrific gore.The second film "Home"(1998)plays almost like a remake of "Cutting Moments" and has similarly disturbing tone without relaying on excessive gore.We see another dysfunctional family living in their own private hell and that makes the climax more bleak and depressing."Home" is not as good as "Cutting Moments",but it surely left me emotionally drained.The last film "Prologue"(2003)tells the story of a young teenage girl,who was brutally attacked and raped one year earlier.She emerges from the hospital in a wheelchair and arrives back home with her parents.Soon the emotional horror begins as a young woman decides to confront her attacker,a local artist called Benjamin Miller,who draws obscene sexual pictures of a young girls.Still "Prologue" seems to be the most optimistic film of the trilogy and I really recommend it.Douglas Buck is certainly one of the bravest directors around and I can easily say that I liked "Family Portraits".My rating:9 out of 10.
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A very realistic short
This film is extremely hard to review and to give a score for, but I'll try.
This is a short which clocks in at 24 minutes, and boy does it use every one of those minutes to full effect. The actor who played the wife was incredible in my mind, as she portray volumes her of character through simple gestures. Nothing much can be said about the other two actors, except the husband pulls one of the most horrid faces in the ending part of the film.
The gore isn't too intense, but two scenes towards the end will definitely stick out in your mind long after the viewing. They WILL make you flinch, and cry out in disgust, you can be assured off that.
So, I would recommend a watch. It certainly doesn't break any barriers, but it does give an unflinching portrayal of what tedious suburban living can possibly lead to.
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Short but sweet !
A great short film. Like many others on here I am fairly desensitised to "shock" films after watching absurd tripe like: August Underground Mordum, A Serbian Film (uncut version), Salo e.t.c and plenty of graphic footage off the internet.
This film is great on so many levels and is not overestimated like some morons on here would have you believe. They moan about it being low budget and crappy special effects and bad actors! Well surprise idiots! It is a low budget and very short film......Duh
The point I am trying to make is that even with the cheapo special effects this film still gets across its message hard and that just the thought of what she was doing was graphic enough for me. Another analogy I have is that a good game does not need good graphics for it to succeed or be enjoyed, the game play is what matters.
It starts off slow and boring for a reason and if you don't get why you really are a lost cause and should go back to watching your run of the mill "shock" films. The lack of dialogue just adds to the suspense and intensiveness of the build up.
All in all a great short film that I rate up there with the best "Horrors". It is funny that the most shocking gut wrenching films that I have ever seen are not horror or shock films but about real events that have happened. No film has ever moved me so emotionally or shocked me or disgusted me than "The Stoning of Soroya M" this is no horror film but the most "Horrific" film I have ever seen.
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this is the one...
yep, this ones amazing. A lot of films try to convey a certain feeling of nausea and hopelessness. A lot of "exploitation" films try to shock and disgust, give you that certain resonating "icky" feeling. A lot of films have had success in this endeavor, but Douglas buck's "cutting moments" by far takes the cake. In less than 30 minutes you're completely devastated but some of the most horrific imagery and gut wrenching subject matter ever captured on film. Ihad read a lot about this film, so i shelled out the cash for buck's trilogy of short films (the other two are also good, but nowhere near the caliber of "cutting moments"). I sat down to watch with two of my cinephile friends who are equally as desensitized as me, by the end i just felt gross, i wished i had never seen this film, honestly this is the only film i've ever seen that truly disturbed me, my friends also felt the same way. The film is NOT exploitation by any means, it's very well done, extremely moody, and just exudes a certain power over your emotions. This one stuck with me for a long time. bottom line: this film is REALLY, REALLY, good. Disturbing cinema is some of my favorite but this is on a wholly different level than most disturbing cinema out there. Just because you're a fan of miike, or korine, or because you enjoyed "salo" or "cannibal Holocaust" DOESEN'T mean you can handle this one. Recommended only to those with very thick skin who are interested in being moved a certain way. But, truth be told....any film that can resonate with me as much as this one did is worthy of my praise and admiration. Buck really created something great with this one. 10/10
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Sad, disturbing and violent but interesting
This is pretty violent. I had to stop and lie down. I started feeling really pale and dizzy. I think it was because of a deeper psychological intensity to what I was watching.
The thing is, not much happens at all. It's very slow and observant. But it's very sad and painful to watch. You feel frustrated but there's a lot of truth to what's happening.
A wife can get no attention from her husband. It's something I'm sure everyone can relate to. Either seeing a couple like that or being in the situation yourself. I think fights between loved ones are one of the most painful and difficult things a person can go through. They can easily become very intense and personal, splits can occur, people can hold grudges for years. Ironically that kind of hatred seems to show that in some way the person cares about the other, that they're affected by them, otherwise it wouldn't make a difference to them.
So one solution is to suppress everything and compromise for years for fear of causing a confrontation. This inevitably leads to misery for all. Of course, at some point the built-up stress and tension will reach a breaking point. Then something will happen. Possibly something very bad. What kills me is when people can drag each-other down like this. They both lose so much trying to prove that they're right. It's very sad and heart-breaking.
So basically this is a portrait of an unhappy marriage. The wife tries so hard. She's completely broken. When she smiles, she's very beautiful. But she rarely smiles. What finally happens is incredibly sad and disturbing. It's very morbid. You can see she's pretty much already dead inside. Even more disturbing is that it seems realistic. You never know how someone is feeling, how close to the edge they might actually be even though they hide it. And being ignored is one of the most painful experiences. You feel worthless and like you may as well not exist.
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Excellent Micro-Budget Anthology
Five strange little horror films that, thanks to the inventiveness of the filmmakers, manage to rise above their obviously limited budgets. I received this from a friend on a double-sided DVD that also includes the movie Buried Alive. I watched this first, expecting it to be the lesser of the two, but hopeful, considering the Tom Savini quote emblazoned on the box art, that it might surprise me. It certainly did, and for a freebie, there is no cause for complaint. The acting - all seemingly from 'semi-professionals' - is uniformly awful, the effects cheap and nasty, but the ideas more than make up for that. Other posters have gone into the plots in detail, so I won't bother, but I agree that the Bowl Of Oatmeal is the least enjoyable segment. Interesting, but not as much fun as a crack-smoking mutt or a nagging old biddy driving her murdering husband nuts! The final titular short is thoroughly nasty, and even I, a David Cronenberg fan, had to watch it through my fingers! If you don't find the sight of a woman cutting off her own lips with a pair of scissors disturbing, I fear for your sanity...
My only question would be the year of production. There are next to no credits on the end of the Region 2 DVD, and although IMDb claims this was made in the late nineties, the cinematography would suggest it was all made on the cheap - perhaps as student films - in the 80s. In fact two of the films have clear 80s references; the old couple's gravestones say they died in 1987, and the teen-movie short has repeated references to Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald. Have they tacked on four 80s flicks to the recently successful Cutting Moments short to make a feature? (If that's the case, what has happened to these filmmakers, who show a lot of promise in this collection?) Or are they all from the nineties and the two films I mentioned are 'period pieces' - Principles of Karma being a parody of the 80s teen-movie, for example? I hope someone else can update IMDb to ease my curiosity...
But anyway, if you can forgive the poor production values and you like macabre tales, you're in for a short, sweet treat!
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Harsh.
Cutting Moments is one of those rare films that lives up to its hype. Its bleak, depressing atmosphere makes it comparable to Michael Haneke's Benny's Video or Seventh Contenent, but with Tom Savini gore.
I've seen Inhumanities, Africa Addio, Guinea Pig etc, but the last scene of this film had me dry heaving, thus giving it the dubious privilege of being one of only two movies that ever made me almost physically ill (The other was Brakhage's Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes).
Cutting Moments is so cruel and astonishing you won't believe what you are seeing until it's over and then you won't forget it for a while.
Buck's broke ground in Cutting Moments by marrying realistic dramatic tropes with the iconography of gore films.
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A lip-smackingly good horror short.
A woman resorts to extreme methods to win back the attention of her bored husband: she uses a brush to scour her mouth and cuts off her lips with a pair of scissors. This seems to do the trick, and it's not long before the couple are together in the sack having fun with a shiny pair of garden shears!
The title of this 20 minute shocker, 'Cutting Moments', was used as the collective name for five disparate short films released together on DVD. On its own, Douglas Buck's bloody tale of desperation and self-mutilation would still be considered a worthwhile effort for purveyors of cinematic excess; however, when lumped together with four much weaker and less memorable stories, this sick little feature appears all the more impressive: the shining light in an otherwise rather dull and disappointing compilation (although 'Crack Dog's titular drug-addled mutt deserves an honorary mention).
With messy DIY facial surgery and a non-graphic-but-still-winceworthy penis removal, those who likes their horror to push the boundaries should enjoy this twisted little piece of nastiness.
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One of the best short movies ever made
"Cutting moments" is a rather amazing thing. One of the most moving, shocking and talented (short) movies ever made (if not one of the best movie alone ever made). There's no point in trying to tell the story of it, the only things you have to know are that it's quite slow, utterly horrible (even disgusting at times), and weirdly emotional. Do not show it to young, sensitive and vulnerable audiences though.
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Sadness...
... is the main feeling that steams off this film, and it succeeds at it.
I have read reviews of people "disappointed" by the gore. I do not think that the intention of the film maker was to show off gore scenes or create a before-its-time torture porn.
The true value of the film is the never-told story and the good work of the actors. Again, many reviewers complain about them. I thought they did a good job, especially the wife. I felt myself feeling extremely sorry and sad for her.
The gory scenes made me flinch and cover my eyes; not so much because of the actual gore (anybody who's seen a Saw film has seen worse stuff than this) but because I did get attached to the characters and it felt real and sad.
To be honest, I would have liked to see less gore; everything else was good enough to stand on its own and there was no need to show a couple of things that (IMO) detracted the attention off the main story.
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Great, diversified madness!
First thing's first. All of the stories in this classic anthology look like separate short films. Somebody put these together, and, knowing Douglas Buck's title segment was the most shocking, they saved the most effective one for last. I dig the whole anthology. "Crack Dog" is surreal, gory, and downright hilarious. "Don't Nag Me" is less outrageous, but no less clever and darkly funny. "Bowl of Oatmeal" is downright bizarre filmmaking, and (while I consider it the lesser of this collection) I enjoyed it also. "Principles of Karma" was really, really good. It has some good things to say about how unfair things can become for some truly good people when oppression spawns extremists who ruin their own revolution by paving another road to hell with good intentions. "Cutting Moments", the title segment itself, simply blew me away. I have never seen things this grotesque that were as powerfully dramatic as those on display in Douglas Buck's highly effective short film. The sadomasochistic gore and self-mutilation scenes have an inexplicable force behind them so strong that even the sickest scenes take on a feeling of harsh drama. "Cutting Moments" as an anthology is definitely a favorite of mine, a diverse collection of the perverse and, more often than not, hilarious. Still, BE PREPARED for the title segment. If it doesn't make you puke or totally depress the hell out of you (or both), something might be really wrong with you.
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The Gruelling Effect of Cutting Moments
The final segment of the short story collection must be the most psychologically destructive short film I have ever witnessed...I still shudder thinking about it, and it has been 3 weeks since I pushed the DVD into the machine...This is definitely NOT for the faint-of-heart, nor should a child have the unpleasant opportunity of seeing it... The rest of the collection is dreary and unoriginal, and one wonders why they would place such a disturbing masterpiece amongst a pile of wasted junk...But, excluding those, the main event, aptly entitled Cutting Moments, should be witnessed by all afficionados of the horror genre and seems to have been lost in the worldwide DVD/VHS market...I discovered this work of genius in the thriller division of the local Look & Listen megastore, selling at a cheap price....
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A Remarkable Anthology
JHC3 9 November 1999
I recently rented "Cutting Moments" and didn't have high hopes. What instead I discovered was a well made, entertaining, and engaging film. However, the information that is currently provided on "Cutting Moments" on this site indicates that it is a short film. The VHS edition I rented (and for which the cover box image is provided on this site) has five segments of which "Cutting Moments" is the last. For those who are interested, here is a brief description of each. If it seems that these descriptions lack much substance, it is simply that each is too short to provide detailed information without giving away key plot points.
Segment One is "Crack Dog." It is a brief, darkly humorous film about a killer and his crack-smoking dog.
Segment Two is entitled "Don't Nag Me" and is the story of a disturbed World War II veteran who murders his nagging wife and secretly buries her in a cemetery. The man begins to have visions of his wife who continues to hound him despite the fact that she is dead.
Segment Three, "Principles of Karma," is a strange and gruesome look at a very disturbed man with an imaginary companion.
Segment Four is "Bowl of Oatmeal." It follows a Generation X slacker type with inattentive parents. His life is unrewarding and he is unmotivated to make any real changes. Things really get weird, though, when he is confronted by a group of masked gunmen claiming to be the Youth Liberation Front. The initial scene in the Pale Horse Cable Systems van is particularly entertaining.
Segment Five is "Cutting Moments" and has been described well by other IMDb members.
The runtime for the current VHS edition of "Cutting Moments" (meaning the entire anthology rather than only the fifth segment) is 82 minutes.
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devastating and depressing, yet brutally brilliant
Recently, I've sort of been getting more and more into really disturbing movies; I'm not exactly sure why, they just fascinate me somehow. Often the ones that genuinely disturb are also brilliantly and perfectly crafted and executed (ex: "Salo", "Antichrist", "Eraserhead" (my all-time favorite film!), "Happiness", etc.), and are not only disturbing due to their content, but also due to their unexpected excellence, making me often feel guilty for praising these works so fervently. "Cutting Moments", in my opinion, is a film that perfectly fits into this category.
It's a strange, twisted nightmare of a film, one that is not real real or surreal, but a kind of mix of the two. The acting is deliberately deadpan and dry, and by the end the film throws all logic out of the window and replaces it with metaphorical guts and gore. It's not a very pretty sight, and this is not a very pretty movie. As a matter of fact, the gore (side note: the gore effects were made by horror film legend Tom Savini, and, as expected from said special effects master, they are fantastic) is probably the least disturbing aspect of this film. There's the heavy implication of child molestation, which serves as the off putting motive for the "heroine"'s self mutilation in the middle of the film, which leads us to the haunting climax, which I will not spoil for my potential viewers. What we have here is a classic example of art-house shocksploitation, and it is glorious, not because it brings any joy to the viewer, but because it manages to legitimately haunt them. This is one of the darkest, greatest short films I have ever seen, one that subverts expectations and genre conventions in order to prevent a subtlety satirical look at a marriage in shambles.
Often times "horror shorts" (at east, the most average of the bunch) are structured in a rather specific way. Your average bland horror short is centered around a sort of bone chilling type premise, and the film itself consists of a suspenseful atmosphere which grows and grows and grows until, all of a sudden, a twist or reveal shocks the viewers, and it often closes there. "Cutting Moments" is NOTHING at all like this. It is without a doubt a horror film, but one that avoids all possible horror clichés, and it is without a doubt a short film, which is just coincidentally how it turned out and is not really relevant to the film's structure. The film is structured in a much less precise and predictable manner than what I just described. Instead, it just plops the viewer into the middle of a broken marriage, and the viewer is forced to sit and watch as its last moments burst into gruesome, tragic flames. I winced and shuddered and cried during this work of colossally demented madness, and there's a good chance that you will too. Just take a deep breath in and attempt to survive this petrifying, saddening, and engaging experience.
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Unbelievably Overrated...
I'm almost at the point where I'm going to start ignoring "The Most Disturbing Movie Ever Made!" lists. For every gem like "Irreversible" and "Salo", there are twenty turds like "Men Behind the Sun", "Aftermath", and, disappointingly, "Cutting Moments". What do these all have in common? Abysmal acting that totally undercuts any feelings you might have about the plot. The "actors" in this film are horrible, to the point that I think they were recruited by grabbing Kentucky Fried Chicken customers on the afternoon of filming. I don't care how gory something is... if it happens to a cardboard character, it does nothing for me. By the way, the "crazy gore" that everyone raves about is laughable... how is Tom Savini attached to this? I guess he ran out of crack that week and decided, "Sure, I'll put my name in the credits for $500!" With one small exception, there is nothing here that couldn't be done by your local cosmetologist; the "effects" are done by showing a body part in closeup, cutting to blood splattering on the floor, then cutting back to the body part, which now has lots of fake blood smeared on it.
The only reason I'm not giving it one star is that there is a brief period, about ten seconds long, that is kind of cool. But it doesn't make up for the fact that the rest of the movie is sub-"First Year of Film School" bad.
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Depressing, Haunting & Revolting
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How do you successfully make film with a length of 30 minutes or less but will leave you sickened for the next 2 days? Well Douglas Buck certainly got the formula down in Cutting Moments.
A simple premise: very ho-hum family of 3 living in bleak suburbia. The shot with the wife slowly trembling and walking into the living room is definitely the freakiest thing I've seen on film. I had a lot of trouble sleeping that night.
Another thing that makes this film special (is that an appropriate word this movie?) is that it feels so overwhelmingly hopeless and sad; as if you're being teleported to this world of complete hopelessness. Gore movies can be shocking and nauseating, but throw in this deliberate sense of complete hopelessness and you're not gonna feel right for a few days.
I wouldn't recommend watching this unless you want to feel like shxx for a little while.
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Sick
This compilation DVD was the most mixed batch of shorts possible. From the dull(Principles of Karma), to the obscure (Bowl of Oatmeal) and the random (Don't Nag me). There are only two out of the five shorts worth watching, for two entirely different reasons. Starting with 'CRACK DOG', the first short on the DVD, this has a running time of just over five minutes, but is pure genius. We were left in stitches, and hopefully this was the intent. Not essentially horror, it's just bizarre, and worth seeing for the poodle alone.
As for 'CUTTING MOMENTS', the title short, but last on the disc, it's the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. Not for the faint of heart. My girlfriend had to leave the room, and my friend and I were screaming at the television. You won't just flinch, you'll be holding your knees up to your chest and covering your eyes(amongst other things). It's pure and simple, SICK!
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The Nightmare That Never Ends
Cutting Moments is slow paced but eerie. There's a long constant dreadful feeling that never ends. Each story is depressing and makes you feel awful. There is no happiness in this film whatsoever. With all of that being said it is one of the best short films that accomplishes what it's meant to do. It makes you feel hopeless and terrible. Therefore making it a dark disturbing masterpiece of shock cinema.
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Painful, but recommended viewing.
I came across this title as it was mentioned in a "top 10 sickest movies of all time" list. Having seen 7 of the others I needed to see this title to progress through the list.
Some people have mentioned the graphic self-mutilation scenes as being hard to stomach. Well, I've seen far more repulsive images in plenty of other films. The thing that was the most painful to watch was the complete destruction and breakdown of the family unit. Many people would find the first 18 minutes boring but I think this emphasises the later scenes. You really feel for the mother as she is at her wits' end. And the look in the father's eyes when he sees what his wife has been reduced to is unforgettable.
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Terrifying experience requires strong stomach
I have seen the short film "Cutting Moments" on the Brussels 1997 International Festival of Fantastic Film. The film has some visual content you will remember for the rest of your life.
I was surprised that such a film was shown during a free afternoon screening open to everyone.
I would not recommend this film to sensitive people or children who can experience a very emotional reaction watching this film. Required are strong nerves and a strong stomach.
In summary I think this film could represent a once-in-a-lifetime viewing experience.
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No-Budget HG Lewis wanna-be baby vomit
This incredibly over-rated film gained notoriety due to it's awful HG Lewis-caliber effects. What it rots down to is someone who commits self-mutilation in some of the lamest effects seen since the late 60's. This film is so impossibly over-rated that I think every positive review it has comes from it's inept 'special' effect crew. The plot is non-existent, the gore is 60's caliber dime-store dummy material and the whole film is an exercise in tedium. Who knew that such a short film could be so boring and tedious, but these hacks provided compacted boredom. Even the sound is muted and boring. The colors pale and boring. The direction is meandering and boring. Even the hack actors seem bored by their source material. This is the most over-rated pile of garbage I may have ever seen, and I am a HUGE horror fan.
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frighteningly close to the truth
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Phew, I have just finished watching Cutting Moments and you know how some movies leave you exhausted after 90 minutes? Well this one manages to do that in 23! The true horror of this little masterpiece is its commonality to pretty much all of us, I mean when you've been in a relationship a little too long, you want your partner to look at you the way they used to, longing for a time when love was new and fresh, trying to find ways to be in love again . . . is it that only true love could produce such sheer horror? It just seems to me that this movie is more of a tragic love story, ala Romeo & Juliet. I just felt so awful for the poor woman in the film, and the closing credits were very touching. I would recommend this movie to all ADULT horror buffs, with assumption that you are all sane of mind and strong of stomach! All that said, if you can sit through the last 15 minutes without turning away at least twice then you are indeed one Bad-Assed M********r! Pure Genius. Savini Rools OK!!!
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The most shocking thing about Cutting Moments is the acting.
Cutting Moments is a short film of just over 20 minutes about a married couple who have grown distant from one another due to the husband's growing sexual urges towards their son (this is hinted at, but obvious nevertheless).
Although the result of the wife's desperate attempt to win back the attention of her husband is pretty damn nasty, this film is overrated in relation to how disturbing it is, in my humble opinion. It was simply unremarkable, and that's about all I can think to say about it. It's one of those films that you really have to watch and judge for yourself, because people's opinions seem to be fairly divided on it.
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Don't Believe the Hype
I had been seeking this movie for over a year and once I finally got it - I was sorely disappointed. The infamous 'Cutting Moments' part is hardly anything to write home about. The gore is minimal and the effects are sub par. I was expecting to have images stuck in my head for days - but what I got/saw was forgotten minutes after I watched this movie, The movie as a whole looks as if it had been filmed by 1st year movie students.
Don't make the same mistake I did - Watch it only if there is nothing else on
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