
Popcorn(1991)
While holding a horror film festival, a group of film students find themselves stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader.


“Lights... Camera... Body parts!”
Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.

Sasha Grey
April Carson

Jesse Buck
Isaac Beaumonde

David Hess
Able Whitman

Michael Berryman
Philip Farmsworth Jr.

Ray Sager
Reverend Roscoe Boone
Jennilee Murray
Georgina Carson / Gigi Spot
Michael Dubue
Alan Dackman

Herschell Gordon Lewis
Fred Sandy / Radio Announcer
Ian Driscoll
Limousine Driver
Phil Caracas
Jail Cell Criminal
Smash Cut is a comedy, horror film released in 2009 exploring themes of insanity, mass murder, investigation, serial killer, private detective, filmmaker. Directed by Lee Demarbre, it stars Sasha Grey, Jesse Buck, David Hess. Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.
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