Smash Cut is set in Ottawa in Canada where hack horror film director Able Whitman (David Hess) attends the world premiere of his latest film Terror Toy to disastrous audience reaction who scream for his blood & their money back. Dejected & down Able heads on over to a strip club & meets up with stripper Gigi Spot (Jennilee Murray) & hires her for the night, however while driving home with Gigi in his car Able has a crash & Gigi is killed. Having looked for inspiration for his next film Able suddenly finds it in the corpse of Gigi, Able realises that this is what modern audiences want. They want real death & real blood & thanks to Gigi's death he now understands, at first he drains some of his own blood but it's not enough to make a gore soaked horror film so goes even further by murdering people such as critics, rival director's & even his own crew. However Gigi's sister April (Sasha Grey) hires the famous private detective Isaac Beaumonde (Jesse Buck) to find out what happened to her sister & they are soon come to suspect Able...
This Canadian production was directed by Lee Demarbre & is the worst kind of low budget, poorly made crap that thinks itself is clever & funny & paying homage to classics of the genre of but is in fact a real pain to sit through & offers next to nothing in terms of entertainment value. Judging by the silly nature of Smash Cut I assume it was meant as some sort of horror comedy but fails miserably in both regards, not once did I find the one-liners funny or was convinced by the story. Smash Cut is very predictable, Smash Cut actually reminded me of the film Color Me Blood Red (1965) directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis who Smash Cut is 'dedicated to' (I'm sure he's flattered, not!) & actually has a small cameo (although I think even Gordon may have been slightly embarrassed to put his name next to this) with the only difference being that in Color Me Blood Red an obsessed artist killed people & used blood to paint pictures rather than an obsessed director making horror films. There are supposed to be plenty of film related puns & gags but as I mentioned they fall totally flat, at only 80 minutes long you would wonder how Smash Cut could end up being boring but it is, the story which is obviously light hearted sucks & I couldn't get into it at all or like it. What else can I say? I really didn't like it, I thought it was a chore to sit through & it's badly made as well.
Smash Cut has a strange look, although set in contemporary times some of the clothes & props (just check that radio out in the waiting room) are obviously 60's inspired which gives it an uneven look & feel I didn't like at all. It's almost as if the makers wanted to make a period horror film yet could only afford a few outfits & the odd prop. Despite featuring several porn stars there is no nudity here at all. The blood & gore is fake looking & not that impressive, a guy has his hands chopped off, a woman has her fingers & head cut off, there are a few dead bodies, some severed limbs are seen & there are a few stabbings (including one by harpoon) but little else besides some terrible special effects work as a guy has his eyeballs poked out with a scalpel but none of it looks any good or is filmed with any degree of suspense or style. Forget about any scares or tension or atmosphere or genuine laughs as there aren't any.
Apparently shot in just twenty days on location in Ottawa in Canada this looks cheap from start to finish, the production values, special effects & grating music are less than impressive. Having made loads of porn films (she made her debut in Tight Teen Twats 2 (2006), it's on my 'to watch' list) the gorgeous Sasha Grey is easily the best thing about Smash Cut, genre regular David Hess is terrible & plays it so over the top at times he becomes laughable rather than menacing, Michael Berryman turns up in a small role while the original The Wizard of Gore (1970) Ray Sager turns up as well.
Smash Cut is a really terrible film with only a short run time & the lovely Sasha Grey to recommend it which ain't enough. Even the title is complete crap, I mean what the hell is Smash Cut meant to mean anyway? Do yourself a favour & avoid this one.
This Canadian production was directed by Lee Demarbre & is the worst kind of low budget, poorly made crap that thinks itself is clever & funny & paying homage to classics of the genre of but is in fact a real pain to sit through & offers next to nothing in terms of entertainment value. Judging by the silly nature of Smash Cut I assume it was meant as some sort of horror comedy but fails miserably in both regards, not once did I find the one-liners funny or was convinced by the story. Smash Cut is very predictable, Smash Cut actually reminded me of the film Color Me Blood Red (1965) directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis who Smash Cut is 'dedicated to' (I'm sure he's flattered, not!) & actually has a small cameo (although I think even Gordon may have been slightly embarrassed to put his name next to this) with the only difference being that in Color Me Blood Red an obsessed artist killed people & used blood to paint pictures rather than an obsessed director making horror films. There are supposed to be plenty of film related puns & gags but as I mentioned they fall totally flat, at only 80 minutes long you would wonder how Smash Cut could end up being boring but it is, the story which is obviously light hearted sucks & I couldn't get into it at all or like it. What else can I say? I really didn't like it, I thought it was a chore to sit through & it's badly made as well.
Smash Cut has a strange look, although set in contemporary times some of the clothes & props (just check that radio out in the waiting room) are obviously 60's inspired which gives it an uneven look & feel I didn't like at all. It's almost as if the makers wanted to make a period horror film yet could only afford a few outfits & the odd prop. Despite featuring several porn stars there is no nudity here at all. The blood & gore is fake looking & not that impressive, a guy has his hands chopped off, a woman has her fingers & head cut off, there are a few dead bodies, some severed limbs are seen & there are a few stabbings (including one by harpoon) but little else besides some terrible special effects work as a guy has his eyeballs poked out with a scalpel but none of it looks any good or is filmed with any degree of suspense or style. Forget about any scares or tension or atmosphere or genuine laughs as there aren't any.
Apparently shot in just twenty days on location in Ottawa in Canada this looks cheap from start to finish, the production values, special effects & grating music are less than impressive. Having made loads of porn films (she made her debut in Tight Teen Twats 2 (2006), it's on my 'to watch' list) the gorgeous Sasha Grey is easily the best thing about Smash Cut, genre regular David Hess is terrible & plays it so over the top at times he becomes laughable rather than menacing, Michael Berryman turns up in a small role while the original The Wizard of Gore (1970) Ray Sager turns up as well.
Smash Cut is a really terrible film with only a short run time & the lovely Sasha Grey to recommend it which ain't enough. Even the title is complete crap, I mean what the hell is Smash Cut meant to mean anyway? Do yourself a favour & avoid this one.