Verdict
Summary
Released after the death of Tony Todd, who is featured throughout this film and not just as a quick cameo, Cutter’s Club resembles one of those old schlocky drive-in era movies where a mad scientist played by John Carradine or Bela Lugosi or someone like that swaps a man’s brain with that of a gorilla. It’s pretty crummy and obviously incredibly cheap, and at just over 60 minutes the film is cut short with an anticlimactic ending. The movie was shot in 2005 (except some AI imagery of the moon and clouds that are sprinkled throughout to pad the time), and left abandoned for 20 years, this is strictly for hardcore Tony Todd fans or Full Moon completists. It’s bad, but pretty harmless.
Plot:
A promising med student becomes part of an underground club of surgeons who perform illegal experiments.
Review:
Jill (Melissa Searing) is at the top of her med school class and will likely become a great surgeon some day, but one thing that tarnishes her potential is that she once had an affair with one of her instructors, the renowned surgeon Dr. Roberts (Tony Todd) whose reputation went bad when he was found to be performing illegal experiments in the hospital. Instead of being fired, Roberts was demoted and sent to work in the basement of the hospital as a morgue assistant, and it is there where he began a club of ambitious surgeons who worshipped the devil. In the middle of the night, they experiment on corpses and barely alive subjects, transplanting organs and body parts – and even heads and brains, swapping to and fro – to create abominations, such a poor creature that lurks in the lab they call Two Head. Roberts has gone insane, but when Jill is invited to join the club, along with her boyfriend who finds himself in way over his head, Jill begins doing experiments of her own with Roberts, not quite realizing that he’s gone totally insane. When Roberts crosses another very big line by murdering one of his own inductees of the club and uses the body for an experiment, Jill tries to leave the club … but pays a heavy price.
Released after the death of Tony Todd, who is featured throughout this film and not just as a quick cameo, Cutter’s Club resembles one of those old schlocky drive-in era movies where a mad scientist played by John Carradine or Bela Lugosi or someone like that swaps a man’s brain with that of a gorilla. It’s pretty crummy and obviously incredibly cheap, and at just over 60 minutes the film is cut short with an anticlimactic ending. The movie was shot in 2005 (except some AI imagery of the moon and clouds that are sprinkled throughout to pad the time), and left abandoned for 20 years, this is strictly for hardcore Tony Todd fans or Full Moon completists. It’s bad, but pretty harmless. Charles Band directed it.
Full Moon’s Blu-ray of this one features bonus trailers and comes with interviews with the cast. The film is in widescreen. It’s numbered #408 on the spine for collectors.
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