Smash Cut (2009)
After his latest film is met with horrible reviews, Able Whitman sets out to prove the critics wrong. After a tragic accident where an exotic dancer is killed in Whitman's car he discovers that real life blood and guts looks far superior in his movies than the piss poor props he had been derided for.
It's a pity Smash Cut is so wretched as it really doesn't make for a fitting final film for the late David Hess. At least Hess can't be blamed for this as his performance along with adult star Sasha Grey is the best thing about the film.
Seemingly a tribute to Herschell Gordon Lewis, who is actually in the film, the film seems about right. Poor acting from all but Hess and Grey, little in the way of an interesting plot... but worst of all, and this is a pity, really poor gore effects. It should be so OTT but it isn't, in fact it doesn't come close. It's it's all a touch too camp, despite some decent in-jokes that gore enthusiasts might enjoy, there are no thrills and no tension. I think the problem is mainly at script level as the film starts out fine but during the second half when it should be wildly manic it sort of peters out and doesn't really engage like the first half did.
Perhaps it would have been far more entertaining had the film been about Grey's maniac nurse as the promo materials suggest it is rather than just the one sequence on a film set.
This is the second time i've sat through Smash Cut, the first being when it initially hit the shops, and both times i've come away disappointed.
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