“The Cutlass” (*1/2 out of four) was an ugly horror thriller based on a true story about a young woman (Lirsa-Bel Hirschmann) vacationing in Trinidad who is kidnapped and has to turn the tables, both physically and psychologically, against her brutal abductor (Arnold Goindhan) as she fights to stay alive. Full of unpleasant scenes of tie-ups, escapes, and beatings; performances and filmmaking are perfunctory, and even the Trinidad scenery looks drab and trashy.