Cut

Date of release: 9 November, 2000

A group of film students, led by the vivacious and charismatic Raffy (Jessica Napier), decides to finish making a horror film that was left unfinished 14 years before, when its director Hilary (Kylie Minogue) was gruesomely murdered. The students are keen despite the disapproval of their lecturer Lossman (Geoff Revell) who was assistant director for the original film "Hot~Blooded".

Martha (Phyllis Burford), the widow of the original film’s producer, is also deeply concerned but reluctantly invests in the remake. Once Raffy and her producer Hester (Sarah Kants) have secured the financial means to make their film, they set about finding the star who will ensure its commercial success. The star of the original film, Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald0, returns to Australia for the remake. The eerie location for their films is the same location where "Hot~Blooded" was filmed.

The student crew set to work, obvious to a sense of evil that begins to take hold. A series of macabre events unfold, parallel to the action in Raffy and Hester’s ill-fated film. One by one. The cast and crew mysteriously disappear. Martha suddenly arrives on the set determined to put an end to the film shoot and the monster it has created, but before she has a chance she too is drawn into the grasp of the dark force that lurks, thereby sealing her own fate. One by one the students are felled until only Raffy and Vanessa are left to grapple with a force greater than both of them…

The Australian Red Cross Blood Service is helping to promote teen slasher movie CUT in exchange for the rare chance to give something back to its young blood donors. This is the first time in at least a decade that the blood bank has found a promotional partner form within the film industry, according to public relations executive Richard Webb. During routine visits to schools throughout march, the staff of mobile blood bank vans will be giving all donors the chance to win double passes to the march 1 premiere, CUT gift packs, which include a CD and complimentary tickets and two-for-one ticket offers. "We’ve not had a lot of tools to encourage young people to give blood. This will be a bit of fun," said Webb. The Red Cross receives about one million donations per year, which probably represents just half a million of Australia’s 19 million people.