Cutting Moments (1997)
A 24 minute short film about the depression and anxieties of a bored suburban housewife seemingly ignored by her sport loving husband with life's monotonous drone eating away at her inside.
You feel for Sarah as she proudly shows off her new dress and make up to hubby who doesn't even raise an eyebrow at how pretty she looks, and it's here that this film takes a disturbing left turn into the world of Michael Haneke and come the end leaves the German's output trailing in it's wake.
In a desperate cry for help Sarah rubs off her red lipstick then rubs even more using a metal pan scrubber leaving her mouth shredded and bloodied, still not convinced she then proceeds to cut her lips off with a pair of scissors, all in graphic detail. I was thinking it may get trimmed by the BBFC but as the camera panned away and down we then see blood and bits of lip pouring onto her breasts. Then the final scenes go all
Antichrist (2009) on us.
Powerful, sickening stuff,
Cutting Moments was bloody visceral body horror horror out of the blue.