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Horror has always and will always be the sub-genre that intrigues me the most. Despite this, there is a cosmetic trend that needs to cease existing in the industry. Most of the indie horror movies that get sent to my mailbox have no story to tell and rather, just gory scenes to show. I appreciate the gore, however, it needs to be justified. Moreover, the gradual evolution of tension and darkness that surrounded horror movies in the 60’s and 70’s has been replaced by over reliance of high definition imagery of bloody gore. The film industry has lost the art of virtue.
Yet, the silver lining is that there are quite a few horror movies that have come out in the previous years that understand the sulfuric atmosphere and portrays it in style. One such movie is Cut Her Out that was released in 2014 and recently published by Midnight Releasing. I would like to express my gratitude for sending me a copy for review. Thank you for allowing me to watch and critique it.
In this drama, therapist Dr. Ryan Andrews (Everette) is assigned the case of Darcy (Heath). He is a little deranged, sleep walks, and is a light sociopath. Ryan has plans of taking her from the institution and back to her family house in order to elicit the monsters that haunt her.
The film revolves around two main events: the slow demise of the house and his encounters with a feral kid who surprisingly stays in the basement. The boy serves as an anchor that helps him rehabilitate his therapy patient, Darcy. In the process, he starts understanding the trauma she had faced as a caged animal and subsequently comes to grasp the past horrors that resided within [Caution: Spoilers Ahead].
I am certainly nostalgic for the times when horror movies either had a gothic or a macabre look to them instead of the intrinsic beauty mixed with the gore we have today. It Towards the Aesthetically Challenged: Formative Film Essays even here was more to film capture in the macabre horror than what was used to do in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and hammer horror, which is why the sculpted pieces of baffling art are still around. However, with the recent unveiling of midnight releasing feature Cut Her Out, we seem to be moving back in the right direction. The film’s atmosphere, putting dread at the center, is what could best describe how the movie was made. Rather than accenting pointing the film’s details, its drawing focus to it’s base riddled morbid creations. Even though the movie did not portray the level of detail every clip is set to, it was able to capture a good sense of fearfulness that is rare in today’s films.
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