I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Expected more

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Someone is killing high school students in "Cutting Class". The movie begins with us finding out that a teenage boy who killed his father is being released from a mental institution, clearly the writers wanted us to suspect him from the start. We meet out main cast of characters next. Brad Pitt plays short tempered Dwight who is going out with Paula (Jill Schoelen). The boy just released from the institution is named Brian, and throughout the film he is written as the prime suspect along with the school principal and janitor. Some of the teachers are murdered as well as a few of Paula's friends, but the body count is actually pretty low in this. Eventually, Paula discovers who the killer is. Will she survive? ... A mistake I made with 'Cutting Class' is reading the back of the DVD. The identity of the killer is revealed in a picture on the back of the DVD case, so I wasn't all that shocked when it was revealed. We get a lot of classroom scenes and love triangle scenes which, at times, make 'Cutting Class' feel like more of a teen drama rather than a slasher film. Jill Schoelen, who was a pretty well known late-eighties scream queen, does a great job in the lead as always. It was interesting to see Brad Pitt in one of his early movies, he did a decent job given the material he had to work with. Roddy McDowell and Martin Mull had comedic roles, but didn't really make an impact on the movie at all.What stopped 'Cutting Class' from being a great horror/slasher film was the lack of scares and the lack of kills. It has a decent plot with the guy getting released from the asylum, but it never get's to the level of being an elite film. I however enjoyed 'Cutting Class' enough to recommend to horror fans.6/10

Cutting Class, what can I say about that one. After half a hour watching nothing really happened except for one killing that isn't worth watching. Other things I saw were bikini's and underwear and of course cheerleaders. And still there is a killer prowling around. If you are into horror you will immediately know who the killer is so no suspense there. Yes, they are trying to mislead you by solving who the killer is but it is too late. By then you know that it really sucks. It's not bloody or scary even as they have put some nudity in it and first person shots of the killer. It's really a flick you watch as a teenager and to see Brad Pitt in his earlier performances. But it is also a perfect example why the slashers killed their selves. If it wasn't for Pitt the movie surely would vanish in the VHS era and would never be released on DVD, watch the sleeves, it's Pitt on it and that's all. For the teenagers around '89 there was another reason to watch this flick. Jill Schoelen. She was one of the idols around then and here she shows a bit of herself and she also was a bit of a name in the PG13 horror of that time. She's also know for Popcorn, The Bite 2 and of course the original The Stepfather were she's nude too. Admit it, with all the tools seen at the end they surely could have made a real slasher but instead they choose to make a copier as a killing subject?! This one is easy to find in bargains so don't hesitate to see a cutting crap.

By the end of the 80s, the traditional slasher movie had pretty much run its course, the genre becoming too formulaic and over-familiar to its jaded audience. Rospo Pallenberg's Cutting Class is an attempt at sending up such conventions, but it's hard to poke fun at a genre that has already unintentionally turned to self parody, and the film winds up being virtually indistinguishable from the countless genuine films that it intends to mock. Jill Schoelen stars as virginal and studious teen Paula Carson, object of affection for two ex-best-buds, overbearing basketball jock Dwight Ingalls (Brad Pitt) and creepy loner Brian Woods (Donovan Leitch). When Paula is left on her own for a week while her father, a district attorney, goes duck hunting, she promises to behave, but with rival friends fighting for her attention, the school principal (Roddy McDowall) perving over her ass, and a crazy murderer bumping off her schoolmates, staying out of trouble is going to be harder than she thinks.Cutting Class certainly makes sure to pack in all the standard genre clichés, with red herrings and misleading clues a plenty (hands up who though that sodium chloride would actually save the day: I know I did), but veers awkwardly between silly humour (Paula's bumbling dad somehow surviving to the end of the film) and genuine attempts at horror (the killing of the school's vice principal), delivering crappy gore featuring patently rubber props and uninspired direction along the way.The acting also does little to improve matters, with future A-lister Pitt being unmemorable, unlikeable and offering no hint of star quality, Leitch giving an equally unimpressive turn, and a performance from poor old Roddy McDowall that can only be described as extremely embarrassing. Thank heavens for the lovely Schoelen, who is as winsome as she was in Popcorn and The Stepfather, and makes the whole film just about worthwhile by simply showing off her magnificent butt.

Well for one thing not every actor started on the a-list in fact quite a few big names started in horror's such as Tom Hanks (He Know's You're Alone), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Kevin Bacon (Friday The 13th), Jennifer Aniston (Leprecahn), Clint Eastwood (Tarantula). So Brad Pitt is just one of the many line of actors more or less starting out in the horror genre and he'll sure won't be the last.Basically the story goes there's a killer on the loose in a local high school and it's up to our plucky young heroine Paula (Jill Schoelen) to figure out who it is, could it be her boyfriend Dwight (Brad Pitt) the high school jock or Brian (Donovan Leitch JR) who just got out of the mental hospital for killing his father and he's attracted to Paula and plus she's slightly interested in him as well.Cutting Class is a campy fun horror movie that shouldn't be taken too seriously, the attempts of humour do fall flat in some places and plus there is zero tension and some of the performances fall flat in some places too. Roddy MacDowell's turn as Mr. Dante, the principal of the school. At one point he gives Paula a new Cheerleader outfit and invites her to his office to get it. "It's on the floor," he says, and has her bend over to get it so he can have a look at her undies, is a funny as well as creepy. Martin Mull even shows up as Paula's father who gets shot with an arrow at the beginning and spends the rest of the movie walking home which is totally unrealistic and plus Two kids and a teacher disappear… AND NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING! A janitor mops up blood in the school gym after a basketball game and he opts not to tell anyone about this. I guess the budget couldn't include a cop car or a fake badge for the sake of credibility.When you first see this movie, yes it is surprising to see Brad Pitt but after a short big he blends in with the rest of the woodwork, Jill Schoelen does a fine job but she does fall flat in some places (The Stepfather) was her better horror movie in which she turns in a much better performance and Donovan Leitch JR is OK but you can't whether it's his intention to not take himself to seriously or is he just a bad actor but anyway I enjoyed his emotional performance, he's really funny.Anyway Cutting Class isn't a total waste of time but there are better high school slashers out there and that does a better job of covering up who the killer is in the very end like in this movie it's totally obvious.