cut class and the directorial debut of excalibur screenwriter rospo pallenberg and receive a failing grade because it doesn not know what it want to be represent a slasher flick and a comedy and a teen drama and or a hybrid of all three . add to that and so much potential arises within the script by steve slavkin for satirical jab at the high school movie experience that you find yourself and when the movie mindlessly pass over these moment and bang your head against the wall at such wasted opportunity . it a if the filmmaker be cut film school class themselves . but the movie isn not all bad and with some nice production value and some gory special effect laden death and it help keep it from be a complete bore . cut class and however and still receive a fail grade in my book when you think the movie couldn not get any more tedious and when it revert to type and descend into typical slasher or haunt house movie territory in the third act . and do not forget about some gratuitous female nudity as well ( so keep your eye peel ) . the story surround a would be love triangle between high school outcast brian wood ( donovan leitch ) and cheerleader paula carson ( jill schoelen ) and and her basketball hunk boyfriend dwight ingalls ( brad pitt ) . brian and dwight be once the best of friend and but that turn sour when brian be accuse of murder his abusive father and a a result be send away to a mental institution for a few year . now that he be release and it isn not long before a series of gruesome murder begin occur on campus and low and behold and brian be the main suspect . cut class do have some pretty cool death a burning in a pottery kiln and an impaling here and a death by copy machine there and an ax to the brain that be flawlessly execute . most of these death happen to men who be apparently connect in some way to the lovely paula carson . most of these men be in fact obsess with paula and include principal dante ( roddy mcdowall ) and which be a little disturbing . the main problem arise in the tediousness of a whodunit that all too obvious in the end . the performance be mostly below average . the bad of these be poor donovan leitch a brian wood . the film build him up to be a sympathetic and misunderstood outsider but instead he turn out to be way too creepy and sneak around in the dark and even once appear in paula bathroom a she wash her hair . cut class and perhaps if the filmmaker weren not busy cut class themselves during their film school year and maybe they could have make a good than average teen slasher flick . negative .