Cutting Moments
by Nica Ray, Douglas Buck
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Actor: Gary Betsworth, Jared Barsky, Nica RayDirector: Douglas Buck, Nica Ray
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 80 minutes
Release Date: 2000-02-15
VHS Movie Reviews of Cutting Moments
Movie Review: Excellent Micro-Budget Anthology
Summary: 4 Stars
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 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 (and the shot-on-home-video knife-slashing interludes between shorts) 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, for example - not to mention very dated hair styles and clothing. 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!
Movie Review: Just Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
Cutting Moments is an amazing film. It is profound, bold allegory and it will move you. I've really never seen anything like it and I cannot wait for the opportunity to see another one of Douglas Buck's films. The other standout is Bowl of Oatmeal which is just hysterical. I don't remember who directed this, but I would love to see more of his/her stuff as well. Dark, dark humor!
Movie Review: Unsettling horror
Summary: 5 Stars
Great little group of 'short movies' compiled in one great package. The first 4 vignettes are very good, but the coup-de-grace is the final installment -- 'Cutting Moments'. Without spoiling it, suffice to say that this is a chilling little tale without much dialogue to get in the way. Visuals from this movie will haunt you for days after viewing them. Quite a feat nowadays. I highly recommend this film.Movie Review: SNIP SNIP
Summary: 5 Stars
Douglas Buck is a twisted genious. this dead pan, grizzy look into the all american family life, leaves you deeply disturbed and disgusted. this is tradgy at its' finest. desperation at its' peak, and the truth is all too chilling. this film is a deep look into what every family fears. this could be your neighbors. or even worse, you. we always hurt the ones we love. check this flick out. it will leave you speachless afterwards, and scarred for life.Movie Review: It's a recommended addition to any video library.
Summary: 4 Stars
Discovering something as eclectic and memorable as "Cutting Moments" is something to behold. Not like your first kiss, not like your first Farrah poster, but a joy nonetheless. This award-winning collection of short films ranges from outrageously funny, like the slapstick "Crack Dog", to the downright appalling, such as the title short, "Cutting Moments".A pizza delivery man and his coke-addicted poodle lay to waste a den of unsuspecting crackheads in Casey Kehoe's bloody good short "Crack Dog", a furiously-paced short that would make Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino envious. Timothy Healy and Gino Panaro's satisfying "Don't Nag Me", reminiscent of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", is about a WWII vet who wins the lottery and cacks his shrewish ball-and-chain so that he may live what's left of his wasted life in peace and opulence.
"Bowl of Oatmeal", to which six separate creators are credited, is a bizarre "Eraserhead"-like tale of a lonely schmuck whose sentient breakfast treat taunts him to madness.
The somewhat dated "Principles of Karma", by Craig Wallace, is nonetheless funny. It's about a slacker who is kidnapped by a groupcalling themselves the Youth Liberation Front, whose mission is to break America's youth of their "thank you sir, may I have another" mentality.
Nothing can prepare you for the capper in this mini fest. "Cutting Moments", by Douglas Buck, is about the implosion of a dysfunctional family. The climax, in which a long-suffering wife mutilates herself so horribly as to rival "Hellraiser" 's Uncle Frank, is brutal and mind-blowing. Never has a film inspired such feeling of dread and nausea, unless you count Pauly Shore in "Bio-Dome". It will be a long time before you will forget this one. The winner of the Montreal Fantasia Festival's Audience Award and the Honolulu Underground Film Festival's Most Disturbing Film Award, "Cutting Moments"' packaging boasts some well deserved cut lines from the likes of the visceral Abel Ferrara ("Body Snatchers") and gore great Tom Savini. A compilation to eclipse the variegated "New York Underground" collections by Film Threat, "Cutting Moments" is a highly-recommended addition to any cult collector's library.
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