Main Cast: Lisa Blount, Leonard Mann, Willie Aames, Richard Lynch, Richard Bright
Release Year: 1985
Country: IT
Run Time: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this Italian adventure, the deadly drug manufacturing and export operation of a prominent South- American drug czar is discovered by an investigative TV news correspondent and her cameraman who went to the jungle to look into evidence that a notorious, corrupt colonel is still alive. While in the jungles, they encounter hostile natives and other typical dangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Review
Second-string horror-adventure from Italian director Ruggero Deodato, who was responsible for the cannibal subgenre's most visually and psychologically distressing entry, Cannibal Holocaust. Though it features plenty of violence and gruesome special effects, Cut and Run is a pale imitation of its predecessor (which some may say is a good thing), trading its slowly mounting menace and unsettling vérité for cheap action sequences and stale drama. Its script also borrows heavily from previous cannibal efforts, most notably Umberto Lenzi's Mangiati Vivi (1980), which also featured a Jim Jones connection. Leads Lisa Blount, Leonard Mann, and Willie Aames can do little with their cardboard reporter characters, and Karen Black and Richard Bright are wasted in minor roles. The film's rogues' gallery fare better; Euro exploitation vets Richard Lynch, Gabriele Tinti, and John Steiner (who suffers a truly horrible demise) are suitably menacing, and Michael Berryman's unusual appearance is used to great effect as a vicious Indian with a taste for decapitation. Worthy of note for its Claudio Simonetti (of Goblin fame) score. ~ All Movie Guide
