10 A-List Actors Who Did Z-Grade Horror Films

Made at the tail end of the 80s slasher craze, Cutting Class captures the tone of the later Friday The 13th movies – it’s slightly spoofy, a bit camp and not meant to be taken seriously. This is a good thing because the sight of Brad Pitt as a vacuous, floppy-haired jock would’ve caused any serious intentions to vanish.

Brad plays Dwight Ingalls, a high school student who suspects that a recent string of homicides might’ve been committed by Brian (Donovan Leitch), a former friend who’s just been released from the loony bin. You get a taste of how silly and unsubtle the movie is going to be when this important piece of information is conveyed by a close up of a newspaper headline that reads “Boy Who Killed Father Released From Mental Asylum.”

Loaded with big hair and questionable fashion choices, Cutting Class is both a document of an era and an inadvertent but pitch perfect parody of it. From the fake looking gore to the cheerleader who “forgot” to wear panties to the big game, the film ticks all the boxes of an 80s trash classic, but what separates it from the pack is Pitt, whose character claims that while he lacks social stature he’s “bigger where it counts.”

Didn’t see that in Seven Years In Tibet, did you?