Cutting Class

Before the shop teachers could get a hold of me, before I was in college and my parents finally had time to be at home, this was the film that taught me "righty tighty, lefty loosey." Unfortunately that was about all it was good for at the time. Still, at least it had an effect on someone who watched it. At least it taught an unsupervised little 9-year-old boy something that he's used the rest of his life.

Yeah, other than that it's a throw-away film. I mean, you have a famous actor making a movie that famous actors NEVER seem to be in and that on itself is interesting and cool...

...but otherwise it's a throw away film. You watch it late at night, you watch it on a rainy Sunday afternoon...and otherwise you forget all about it until ...

Brad Pitt stars in this flick about a killer on the loose at a high school in SoCal

A student (Donovan Leitch Jr.) returns to high school in the Los Angeles area after spending time in a mental asylum and tries to renew friendships with a couple students (Jill Schoelen and Pitt). Havoc ensues.

"Cutting Class (1989) combines high school dramedy in the mold of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) with 80s horror like Christine, the Prom Night flicks and the first couple of Nightmare on Elm Street movies. The Rage: Carrie 2 came out ten years later and its probably the best example of this genre, although this one throws in bits of humor plus a whodunnit angle à la Scream. The Faculty also comes to mind.

I bring up those movies b...