I don't know what the other people reviewing this are thinking; this movie is comically bad. Horrendous over acting from the main character, horrible sub par acting from the antagonist. I especially love the part where Frank puts Lance on a rug and says "This is Lances rug, no matter who comes through that door, you don't get off of the rug." When he steps off, Frank says "Back on your RUG!" As if the rug was a useful plot device. Used it as code for a drinking game to this movie. Every time something stupid happened, we said "the rug" and took a shot. Good movie to play a drinking game with, but not to be taken seriously. The plot is horrible, motive is horrible, ending is complete crap, premise sucks. I liked Bullet to the Head better than this.
8 Reviews
filmed in 10 days? it shows
mark_w39 February 2013
This film is one of the worst attempts at cinema I have ever seen. I sat through the entire film looking for anything good. Much over acting, poor uncreative filming, very amateurish. This will be my White Elephant gift for 2013 Holiday parties. A thousand cuts must be a metaphor for how much of the film should be removed prior to showing. I read some reviews on this and was shocked at how people can praise something that is clearly not quality work. They must be related to the film in some way. The characters are clear stereotypes, what little thrills there are - are too predictable, and devices used to justify events are very immature. I can't speak of anything good to say about the film other than it (my viewing experience) is over. My children feel as if I used the film to punish them for something they might have done in a past life. Just kidding but a horrible film. I am sure someone will say, "the reviewer just didn't get it," and they are right, I didn't neither will you, or any other viewer. It would be better to save your money and watch internet user made videos than waste your time on this film
A Thousand Cuts
tiptronic18813 March 2013
From the start of this movie you see clips of a party. What caught me the most was the clown. What would the clown be doing in an accomplished directors' house?
OK so we move on, the party started. he is a not so swagger Casanova. He is walking around in different scene clips where he just doesn't make sense. Then the signing of the posters next to the pool. His manager/publicist has the worst British accent; but better yet is he coming out of the kids play house in the back after smoking pot and the girl wants his signature and the clown pops out again!!! CLASSIC
I'm not going too much into the story line cause its not that great.
It's official he needs rehab. But I digress. How do you invite someone in that wasn't at your party I don't give a sh_t who he says he is (WATCH THE NEWS). After that He finally finds out who the guy is FRANK and he's like :::Stupid::: let me check the internet, and Frank lets him. NOW YOU KNOW. So Jennifer Love Hewitt!
Horror movie bad I had seen is Frank getting tied to a kitchen chair that doesn't move. But frank pleads to cut him out if not bad things are going to happen. Blah Blah movie goes on...... Bad story line continues.
Alan gets double handcuffed to a coffee table which also does not move cause it seems to be bolted into the ground. But wait! Frank when saying he's going to do bad things brings his goodies bag and places it right next to Alan's feet so he can get to it. What the F!!!!
OK I can't speak any more of the bad editing that this movie had. But the best line to end was Frank getting stabbed and Alan says "What do you want," so he replies, "To really kill somebody."
The plot of this movie is actually interesting as it pulls on the tragedies that actual life goes through due to viewing movies. This is a big thing when letting your kids watch these kinds of genres of movies and becoming more aware of signs.
I watch horror movies have had since i was about 9 since the Krueger series started but I know things are becoming more realistic, hence doable. Please watch what your kids kids watch and not only that, make note to your other ones that don't know about them.
Be Safe, and happy watching.
OK so we move on, the party started. he is a not so swagger Casanova. He is walking around in different scene clips where he just doesn't make sense. Then the signing of the posters next to the pool. His manager/publicist has the worst British accent; but better yet is he coming out of the kids play house in the back after smoking pot and the girl wants his signature and the clown pops out again!!! CLASSIC
I'm not going too much into the story line cause its not that great.
It's official he needs rehab. But I digress. How do you invite someone in that wasn't at your party I don't give a sh_t who he says he is (WATCH THE NEWS). After that He finally finds out who the guy is FRANK and he's like :::Stupid::: let me check the internet, and Frank lets him. NOW YOU KNOW. So Jennifer Love Hewitt!
Horror movie bad I had seen is Frank getting tied to a kitchen chair that doesn't move. But frank pleads to cut him out if not bad things are going to happen. Blah Blah movie goes on...... Bad story line continues.
Alan gets double handcuffed to a coffee table which also does not move cause it seems to be bolted into the ground. But wait! Frank when saying he's going to do bad things brings his goodies bag and places it right next to Alan's feet so he can get to it. What the F!!!!
OK I can't speak any more of the bad editing that this movie had. But the best line to end was Frank getting stabbed and Alan says "What do you want," so he replies, "To really kill somebody."
The plot of this movie is actually interesting as it pulls on the tragedies that actual life goes through due to viewing movies. This is a big thing when letting your kids watch these kinds of genres of movies and becoming more aware of signs.
I watch horror movies have had since i was about 9 since the Krueger series started but I know things are becoming more realistic, hence doable. Please watch what your kids kids watch and not only that, make note to your other ones that don't know about them.
Be Safe, and happy watching.
If you like horror movies, this is not your movie...if you like movies, you might like this!
DaveHaggertyii8 January 2013
If you are a fan of movies that are concentrated on performances and script (12 angry men) and not on big names and violent actions, this movie is for you. Here is a well written movie that was shot in 10 days and by no means does it feel like that. Supporting Actor Michael A Newcomer is a stage actor and his art works well on his first attempt on screen.
This movie will make you think, it'll make you laugh, it'll make you surprised. A nice twist of events and it leaves you wondering...who is the protagonist? Check it out and you wont be disappointed. Plus, you can say you saw a real independent film.
This movie will make you think, it'll make you laugh, it'll make you surprised. A nice twist of events and it leaves you wondering...who is the protagonist? Check it out and you wont be disappointed. Plus, you can say you saw a real independent film.
One Evening's Journey
trainerbt122 January 2013
A Thousand Cuts introduces us to the world of Lance, a successful horror director throwing a typical over-the-top Hollywood "celebrate me/love me" party. Once Michael O'Keefe shows up as the creepy stalker-type villain Frank, the lights go out, and you feel like you know exactly where this movie is going. But you probably couldn't be further off-base. Once the guests disperse, Michael A. Newcomer masterfully reveals Lance not to be the shallow, one-dimensional Hollywood stereotype he appeared to be, but an intelligent man who fully recognizes what a farce of a world he's living in ... what a fake world ... yet one he's taking advantage of while he can. Unfortunately for Lance, while it is a farce of a world, it's far from fake, and his movies have reached very real points and affected more lives than he ever intended. In seeking eye-for-eye retribution for copycat harm that befell his daughter, Frank terrorizes Lance, ultimately taking both of them on an evening's journey toward recognizing responsibility and realizing what's truly important in life.
A Thousand Cuts to Your Psyche
krobpa4 September 2012
Any film can be a slasher film. Any film can be a psychological thriller. Not every film can take the context of a slasher film creator and build into a psychological thriller about truth, love, life and death. We knew Michael O'Keefe was good. What we discover is the new Michael, Michael A. Newcomer, isn't only just as good but in some ways even better. Michael makes us love to hate him from the first frame. Then we hate to love him at the end. This is a film worth checking out. You should also check out Michael A. Newcomer's reel. It's one you will love to love.
CLIFF NOTES AREN'T BOOKS?
nogodnomasters9 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This is NOT a slasher film, it is a psychological thriller/drama. Lance Ross (Michael A. Newcomer) is a shallow Hollywood horror film director/writer who loves his sister. He has made a film franchise known as "A Thousand Cuts" based on an ancient oriental torture technique. As life imitates art, so it was. Oklahoma rube Frank (Michael O'Keefe) had a daughter who was a victim of the technique. He blames Lance and decides to have his revenge.
What I liked about the film was the crisp dialouge during the party. The characters were colorful. Frank, who comes across as a rube, has done his homework as he plans ahead. I expected a twist at the end more complex than what I got, i.e. Frank really being an actor hired by Lance's sister (Olesya Rulin) as that is where it appeared this thing was going and wish they would re-shoot the ending to suit me...but that won't happen.
The film does not contain any real torture scenes. There are glimpses of a torture victim (Madi Goff) from time to time, but nothing for gore fans. This is not a plot/action driven film. Fans of this genre, might try "Axed."
Parental Guide: No f-bombs (that I recall). No sex or nudity.
What I liked about the film was the crisp dialouge during the party. The characters were colorful. Frank, who comes across as a rube, has done his homework as he plans ahead. I expected a twist at the end more complex than what I got, i.e. Frank really being an actor hired by Lance's sister (Olesya Rulin) as that is where it appeared this thing was going and wish they would re-shoot the ending to suit me...but that won't happen.
The film does not contain any real torture scenes. There are glimpses of a torture victim (Madi Goff) from time to time, but nothing for gore fans. This is not a plot/action driven film. Fans of this genre, might try "Axed."
Parental Guide: No f-bombs (that I recall). No sex or nudity.
thriller revenge plot
tomregan-581-83566015 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
"A Thousand Cuts" is a wonderful movie that tells the story of a Hollywood horror director named Lance who's forced to endure a night of actual horror. The movie opens up at one of those glamy Hollywood pool parties full of bling and coke and self-important pricks, none worse than Lance himself. Lance rules his roost with boyish charm and a menacing leer: have fun or else. And mostly everyone does, the moguls, the over-the-hill actresses, the tight bodies and the clowns, as they all strive to impress, either by exaggerating their own accomplishments, or denigrating those of others. The whole soiree is wildly entertaining even as we begin to get the idea that this is going to be a smart Hollywood film that takes a hard look at other Hollywood films.
Naturally no Hollywood party would be complete without a stout wall and an even stouter guard to keep out the want-a-be's. One such want-a-be is the all too familiar schmuck with a script, who actually does manage a few seconds before a restive Lance. He's harmless (and hilarious) enough. But an electrician from the sticks, just the kind of person who in great numbers actually pays for these parties, soon proves otherwise. He jumps the wall while everyone is busy admiring everyone else and soon sets to doing what electricians do best, f***ing with the electricity.
It's one of the delightful ironies of this film that a party full of luminaries who specialize in the making of horror films – which by their very nature upend the lives of their characters via a steady profusion of unmitigated grizzle and gore – could be upended by an electrician simply flicking yard lights off and on. But that's exactly what happens as these professional screwers up of fictional character's lives can't seem to tolerate even a tad of imperfection in their own. Apparently, if these Hollywood types aren't well-lit, they head for the hills (as long as they're the Hollywood Hills).
And thus, after a mad rush for greener (or should I say, browner) pastures, the horror director and the scraggly electrician from Oklahoma are left all by their lonesomes in this tastefully appointed pleasure palace, financed by one spilled pint of theatrical blood after the other. At first everything seems honky dory, at least to the overconfident Lance, as he pops a beer and pulls up a kitchen stool for his new-found friend. But here's where the movie really starts to dig in its claws in the form of some masterfully delivered suspense. We know the electrician is not who he says he is. And wasn't there a bomb threat called in earlier? And didn't the stout security guard have some well-founded suspicions before being sent obliviously home by what-could- possibly-go-wrong Lance?
At long last, Lance gets the heebie jeebies as well...but it's too late. Of course the electrician has cut the phone lines. And of course he's packing a big ol' pistol. Not so of course is he's also managed to tie up the director's beloved sister in a special tank with a limited amount of oxygen. Tick tock, tick tock.
It's just the kind of plot the movie director might have written himself...except now he's living it. And that's the whole idea as far as the electrician is concerned, to visit revenge on Lance for one of his movies (the eponymously named, "A Thousand Cuts") which the electrician believes played a part in ruining his life.
From here on the movie plays out as a terrifically conceived thriller with a kidnap revenge plot at its core which at the very end turns neatly upside down on a sudden reveal and a single line of dialog. It's the best moment of all in a film full of good moments, extremely strong performances, and perhaps the ugliest coffee table in cinematic history. Check it out.
Naturally no Hollywood party would be complete without a stout wall and an even stouter guard to keep out the want-a-be's. One such want-a-be is the all too familiar schmuck with a script, who actually does manage a few seconds before a restive Lance. He's harmless (and hilarious) enough. But an electrician from the sticks, just the kind of person who in great numbers actually pays for these parties, soon proves otherwise. He jumps the wall while everyone is busy admiring everyone else and soon sets to doing what electricians do best, f***ing with the electricity.
It's one of the delightful ironies of this film that a party full of luminaries who specialize in the making of horror films – which by their very nature upend the lives of their characters via a steady profusion of unmitigated grizzle and gore – could be upended by an electrician simply flicking yard lights off and on. But that's exactly what happens as these professional screwers up of fictional character's lives can't seem to tolerate even a tad of imperfection in their own. Apparently, if these Hollywood types aren't well-lit, they head for the hills (as long as they're the Hollywood Hills).
And thus, after a mad rush for greener (or should I say, browner) pastures, the horror director and the scraggly electrician from Oklahoma are left all by their lonesomes in this tastefully appointed pleasure palace, financed by one spilled pint of theatrical blood after the other. At first everything seems honky dory, at least to the overconfident Lance, as he pops a beer and pulls up a kitchen stool for his new-found friend. But here's where the movie really starts to dig in its claws in the form of some masterfully delivered suspense. We know the electrician is not who he says he is. And wasn't there a bomb threat called in earlier? And didn't the stout security guard have some well-founded suspicions before being sent obliviously home by what-could- possibly-go-wrong Lance?
At long last, Lance gets the heebie jeebies as well...but it's too late. Of course the electrician has cut the phone lines. And of course he's packing a big ol' pistol. Not so of course is he's also managed to tie up the director's beloved sister in a special tank with a limited amount of oxygen. Tick tock, tick tock.
It's just the kind of plot the movie director might have written himself...except now he's living it. And that's the whole idea as far as the electrician is concerned, to visit revenge on Lance for one of his movies (the eponymously named, "A Thousand Cuts") which the electrician believes played a part in ruining his life.
From here on the movie plays out as a terrifically conceived thriller with a kidnap revenge plot at its core which at the very end turns neatly upside down on a sudden reveal and a single line of dialog. It's the best moment of all in a film full of good moments, extremely strong performances, and perhaps the ugliest coffee table in cinematic history. Check it out.
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