In one anatomy class, six medical college freshmen are gathered together. They are the smart and confident Seon-hwa(Ha Ji-min), the warmth heart and a leadership soul Gi-beom(O Tae-gyeung), the arrogant Joong-Seok(Soy) which father is the hospital owner, the fat coward Kyung-min(Moon Won-ju), the bookworm Eun-joo(On Joo-wan), and the sexy and studious poor Ji-yeong(Chae Yun-seo). The highly competition is begin between them, to prove who will be the best surgeon, but fellowship as a team are still strongly tied them together. For their dissection class that overseen by the snooty Dr.Han (Jo Min-ki), these six persons were trying to maintain their fear and approach the cadaver that was prepared for them, a beautiful young woman corps with a rose tattoo on her breast. Yet ever since beginning the experiment, they soon find out their lives have changed for the worst. They are all suffering with the same nightmares and hallucinations, haunted by a weeping woman and a doctor with a lame leg, whispering death. After that, one by one of the team members befall start to have an accident and die, the remaining students start to realize something horrible is coming for them. Suspecting the female cadaver they dissected to be the primary link behind the killings, they begin to investigate the past to find out why they have been marked for death. They get the fright of their lives when they discover that eighty percent of cadavers are victims of unnatural death with no surviving relatives. Suddenly, nothing seems the way it appears to be... (Synopsis from Movie-Café)“The Cut” is a slasher horror flick that cheered up the Korean summer horror fest this year along with other titles that already released on DVD version such as “Black House”, “Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait” and “Evil Twin”. “The Cut” home cinema version is ready to stocks on the market at October 9, 2007.
The Cut is scripted by Jeon Sun-wook (Vampire Cop Ricky), and adapted and directed by Son Tae-woong (best known as the co-screenwriter for Bong Joon-ho's Barking Dogs Never Bite), is a fairly ambitious horror film that traverses several sub-genres: medical thriller, slasher film, ghostly horror and even a bit of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-like psychological creep-out. Son demonstrates directorial sensibilities attuned to visual flair and economical presentation of character traits via sharp dialogue. As per recent Korean genre films, technical aspects are pretty impressive. Special makeup on the actors playing cadavers are not grossly overdone, and meticulous replicas of dissected bodies are sufficiently realistic, although not as graphic as in, say, Anatomie (2000). There are a few nimble and imaginative sequences, including the long take with swishing camera movement that captures the outbreak of psychological panic in the med school dorm, capped by an explosive fit suffered by one character, and Seon-hwa facing a dream-vision of the mysterious cadaver in broad daylight.
Unfortunately, The Cut crashes and burns in the last third, never recovering from a "plot twist" revelation that establishes a blood relation between two seemingly antagonistic characters. The story performs several gymnastic feats of bodily contortion, until it shakes the audience's emotional investment loose like a medicated mutt would do with fleas. Yeah, we do find out what the ghost's slow gesticulations are supposed to mean, or who the heck that one-eyed surgeon is, if we are patient enough: I seriously doubt anybody would care by that point. The film's thin narrative simply cannot sustain all the things-go-bump-in-the-night stuff that also must double as clues for the viewers to piece together the "mystery" plot, which does not make any sense anyway, except on a literary-symbolic level. (To claim The Cut has plot holes is like saying a velociraptor has really big toenails) The result is a movie that succeeds neither as a brainless spook show nor as a brain-teasing thriller. (It might have worked frankly better as a remake-slash-variant of Dr. Caligari, completely dispensing with any attempt to "rationally" explain why certain things happen to whom)
Like Antarctic Journal, (2005) another misfire with a clearly talented director at the helm, The Cut leaves the viewers in the dust, so busy trying to spin its yarn that wrapping itself up into an inert cocoon by the last reel. (Reviewed By Kyu Hyun Kim – Koreanfilm.org)
Unfortunately, The Cut crashes and burns in the last third, never recovering from a "plot twist" revelation that establishes a blood relation between two seemingly antagonistic characters. The story performs several gymnastic feats of bodily contortion, until it shakes the audience's emotional investment loose like a medicated mutt would do with fleas. Yeah, we do find out what the ghost's slow gesticulations are supposed to mean, or who the heck that one-eyed surgeon is, if we are patient enough: I seriously doubt anybody would care by that point. The film's thin narrative simply cannot sustain all the things-go-bump-in-the-night stuff that also must double as clues for the viewers to piece together the "mystery" plot, which does not make any sense anyway, except on a literary-symbolic level. (To claim The Cut has plot holes is like saying a velociraptor has really big toenails) The result is a movie that succeeds neither as a brainless spook show nor as a brain-teasing thriller. (It might have worked frankly better as a remake-slash-variant of Dr. Caligari, completely dispensing with any attempt to "rationally" explain why certain things happen to whom)
This DVD edition comes with the following special features:
- Audio Commentary with Director Son Tae Woong and Han Ji Min
- Scenes of Anatomy Dissections
- The Horror of Cadava
- Production Sketches
- Poster Shoot
- Theatrical Trailer
Product Details:
Product Title: The Cut (DVD) (Korea Version)
Actors: Ha Ji-min, O Tae-gyung, Moon Won-ju, Chae Yun-seo, Jo Min-ki.
Directors: Son Tae-woong
Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 (Anamorphic), Color, NTSC
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English, Korean
Audio Specs: Digital Surround 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0
Region: Region 3 South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Number of discs: 1
Country Made: South Korea
Genre: Horror
Distributor: Ssamzie Ivision
Release Date: October 9, 2007 (Order your copy now!)
Source: YesAsia, HanCinema (Photo)
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