Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

A series of murders around a high school has two basic suspects: two childhood friends now rivals for a girl's affections. But who is the killer? *½

The final slasher of May 2013 set around a school and students is Cutting Class (1989), notorious for being that film Pitt hocks a golf-ball sized loogie at when asked what his worst film is. I have seen it twice, the latest time didn't leave a good impression. I've never really wrote extensively about it so this will be the chance to detail what I don't like and perhaps a few small things that might work, if anything did. Jill Schoelen's presence in the film did help, I will say. After this, the Darkside Blog will head into the woods with two upcoming slashers, The Forest (1982) & Don't Go into the Woods (1981).

 A young man from Hong Kong must outwit and take down a crime syndicate threatening his friend's niece who operates a floundering Rome, Italy restaurant. When a special American fighter is called in to take him out, this Hong Kong fighter will have to use all his arsenal in order to protect his friends from the syndicate's numerous henchmen ****

A sheriff must contend with a genetically enhanced man who is a mentally unstable psychopath killing everyone that threatens his existence. ***½  Mitogen-35 is an experimental drug with the potential for keeping the body from dying and enhancing body strength, the breakthrough in genetic engineering. The problem in this film is that the scientists behind it decide to use it on the mentally unstable giant, Brian Libby. “What did they have to lose?”one of the scientists asks. Yeah, just your lives…for someone with great intelligence, his common sense was lacking. What a dillweed. I think when it comes down to it, that’s the major logical problem with this film. It is hard not to shake your head in bewilderment at such a stupid decision. Using this on someone with a brain that was no longer healthy, and giving him the ability to unleash his raging madness on the unsuspected; these scientists just go ahead and allow this maniac with superior strength the benefits of r...