A fantastic title and a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s not often that a movie that was made on this island and was an official selection at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival will slip under the radar, but chances are you might not have heard of Bad Day for the Cut until now.
Released in 2017, the film stars Nigel O’Neill as a mild-mannered man named Donal who loves and lives with his mother, who is the victim of a brutal murder that takes place while Donal is in the house.
Set in Northern Ireland and directed by Chris Baugh, Bad Day for the Cut explores Donall’s violent quest for revenge, on which he discovers that both he and his mother have a darker side he was previously unaware of.
Clip via New Trailer Buzz
“What he is not, under any circumstances, is someone to fuck with,” goes the description of O’Neill’s Donal on the Galway Film Fleadh website, which makes us question whether Liam Neeson deserves to hang on to his title as Northern Ireland’s scariest movie figure after all.
An official selection at Sundance and at the Seattle International Film Festival, Bad Day for the Cut has received rave reviews, even managing 100% from an admittedly small number of testimonies from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s been available on Netflix since Thursday, January 18 and could be just the thing to get you off your seat this weekend.
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