Back in 2005, B-movie maven Charles Band directed horror icon Tony Todd in Cutter’s Club, but the indie movie ran into financial trouble at the end of production and it never saw the light of day.
20 years later, in the wake of Todd’s passing, Band rescued the lost negative and completed the film, which is now streaming exclusively on Tubi via Full Moon Features.
Creatures, carnage, and macabre malpractice ensue when a pair of medical students get involved in a secret society of surgery fetishists and monster makers called the Cutter’s Club, overseen by the maddest of doctors.
The script is written by Neal Marshall Stevens (Thirteen Ghosts, Hellraiser: Deader) under the pseudonym Benjamin Carr.
The film features 35mm cinematography from Mac Ahlberg (Re-Aninmator, From Beyond) and special effects by John Carl Buechler (Friday the 13th Part VII, Halloween 4), both of whom have since passed.
“I shot a feature 20 years ago starring Tony Todd called Cutter’s Club. The lady who was funding it ran out of money, and we had to stop production – two days short of completing the film,” Band said in a statement to JoBlo.
“Luckily, most of it was shot, and I thought one day I would go back and finish it when the money situation improved, but then one year after the production shut down, as I was getting ready to complete the film, we found out that the lab had lost the negative. The DP was Mac Ahlberg, the greatest DP I ever worked with, and we shot the film on 35mm.”
He continues, “There are a dozen more beats to this story over the years – but the end (and the beginning) came last November when its star, Tony Todd, passed away. That inspired me to call the lab for at least the 20th time and ask about the negative. ‘No’ again was the answer, but then I thought – let me give them a whole bunch of company names that the movie might have been under – I even invented a few just for the heck of it, that sounded like companies I might have formed decades ago… Anyway, the lab dude called back and told me they finally found the lost negative!
“The challenge then was how to put together the movie without the scenes we were unable to shoot: I figured that out (another story), and for the last few months, we’ve been in post-production. Cutter’s Club is now finally completed!”
Melissa Searing, Davee Youngblood, Jemal McNeil, David Sean Robinson, Raelyn Hennessee, and Jon Simanton round out the cast.
Todd’s final big screen appearance, Final Destination Bloodlines, opens on May 16.
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