Brad Pitt, Psycho Killer?

Any good actor worth his or her salt has a skeleton of an early horror film in their closet. The lovely Naomi Watts was in Children of ohe Corn IV: The Gathering. And before Brad Pitt made his splash in the film Thelma & Louise he made this 1989 body-count teen slasher film Cutting Class. Directed by Rospo Pallenberg -- who wrote screenplays for John Boorman (Excalibar), it's about a series of killings a local high school. Who did it? The pervert Principal (Roddy McDowall), the weird kid just let out of a mental institution for killing his dad (Donovan Leitch) or the hot jock in the red convertible (Brad Pitt)?

The film features lots of attempts at lame black humor and some creative murders -- one teacher gets pushed into a kiln, one has her head bashed into a copy machine, the gym coach gets an American flag plunged through him... But Brad Pitt has star quality to spare even at this young age -- you can't take your eyes off him while he's on screen. Leave it to Lionsgate to unearth this baby....