Scar (2007) Reviews

• Awful

  Shiryu052009-04-30

  I have no idea why the comment was removed in the first place, this movie is horrendous at best and utterly laughable. In searching for a good horror movie, whether supernatural or just some nutcase running around with a chainsaw, I've pretty much seen about 85 % of the horror movies made during the last 15 yrs and this movie rates amongst the lowest. If anyone is familiar with the concept of Saw, this movie has taken a major chunk from that plot wise. Special effects were minimal to the point of boring. Due to the rating on the box i was expecting something gory but there's nothing much in here to scare anyone. The footage, quality wise looked a strange shade of grey - washed out, somewhat unsettling to the eye. The lead character - A female who resembles a poster girl for anorexia. I know it's the 'Hollywood' thing to show your ribcage and have sharply protruding bones everywhere but this was just appalling. I literally wanted to tie her to a chair when i saw her jogging, where would she find the energy to expend ? There are plenty of z-grade movies out there, this being one of them. I'm sure everyone watches trashy/candy movies once in a while, but this particular one was just a sad waste of my time and their money.

• Utter Trash

  dschmeding2009-10-14

  Scar is one of those movies that should have never been made. Basically a cash-off on the Hostel styled torture-porn genre (considering the directors previous movies I wonder why he did this now) you get your every cliché... a killer torturing 2 people until one gives him permission to kill the other (WAZ anyone??), he kills in a funeral home, he is introduced through flashbacks because guess what... some years later there is a copycat murder and guess what again, the only surviving victim played by Angela Bettis is confronted with the copycat. Thats about it... honestly I don't care if this movie is 3D because there was no scenes with a typical 3D shock-look anyway, so its just cheap marketing for a bad movie just like the whole torture-thing. The movie is most of the time way too slow moving and gets very boring, way too dark and way to over the edge with its tinted looks. When will someone realize that this doesn't look gritty but just cheap and synthetic if you do it wrong like presented here. I always like to analyze what stupid idea was going through the directors head like when changing the disgusting blue tint to orange when the copycat killer is dead or suddenly introducing green tints on flashbacks. Its really random like in so many movies nowadays and many of the zoom-dissolves looked totally like an amateur movie. Its a shame to see Angela Bettis talent wasted in such a sub-par movie. If you still are not bored of girls being tortured try to get off on the cutting and dismembering in the darkness. Oh, and spoiler alert... the movie doesn't even stop from letting the murder re-appear in the end, yet just in a "dream-sequence". A forced script with bad editing and post-production regurgitating every cliché possible and doing worse than most movies in that vein ... why are people still financing such schlock??

• It Never Stops

  claudio_carvalho2009-08-10

  While driving to her hometown Ovid, Colorado, to visit her brother and local sheriff Jeff (Christopher Titus) and her niece Olympia (Kirby Bliss Blanton), Joan Burrows (Angela Bettis) recalls her traumatic experience with her best friend Susie (Tegan Moss) when they were teenagers. Joan (Brittney Wilson) and Susie are smoking pot in the cemetery and decide to snoop the caretaker Bishop (Ben Cotton) in the funeral home. Joan falls and hurts her knee, and Bishop invites the girls to enter in the house to clean the wound. Sooner they are sedated with chloroform and submitted to a cruel torture in a sick game where Bishop tells each girl to ask to kill the other to stop the suffering. When a copycat killer kills Olympia's friends, Joan tells the police officers that Bishop is back but nobody believes in her words. When Olympia is abducted, Officer Lucas (Chris Nannarone) actually believes that Joan has abducted her niece and might be the serial-killer. "Scar" is an impressively gore and sadistic horror movie that follows the style of "Hostel" or "Saw". The story is reasonably well developed through flashbacks, but it is not difficult to guess the identity of the killer; the predictability is due to the few numbers of characters. I am a fan of the cult actress Angela Bettis, but in general the acting is good, highlighting Ben Cotton and Devon Graye. The special effects and make-up seems to be great, but I saw the DVD without the 3-D glasses and the image was completely blurred. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "Scar – A Marca do Mal" ("Scar – The Mark of the Evil")

• No scar(es) in this dull torture-porn

  movieman_kev2013-06-03

  Mediocre warmed over torture-porn that isn't particularly awful, it's competent enough. But it's not that compelling I lost interest far before the boring little grue-fest movie ended. Some of the cast had been in much better genre film, Angela Bettis in the much superior "May" and Titus in the cult classic "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", both of which are much more worthy of your valuable time than this dreary number. In the interest of full disclosure, seeing this on Netflix, it obviously wasn't the 3-D version, but I strongly feel it wouldn't affect my scoring of the movie that much Eye Candy: Kristin Kowalski gets topless

• Don't waste your time and money

  jimbeauknows19532011-11-03

  First, I want to state that I have only seen the 3D version; having said that, my reaction after the viewing was why was this shot in 3D? There is nothing visually attention grabbing or exceptional about the staging of this film; as a matter of fact, the cinematography is so featureless and unexciting that it might be useful to insomniacs. The flashback sequences begin immediately and make the storyline perplexing, especially since the writing and acting are so anemic. It doesn't take the viewer long to recognize who the killer is, but since the writer failed to develop any back story for him, we are forced to listen to him justify why he is killing as he is killing, which is very confusing and very far-fetched. The filmmakers attempted to imitate Saw, Hostel, and countless other films in the HORROR genre, with not much success. All they did was make a HORRIBLE movie. Most horror fans will yawn during this film and constantly check their wristwatch, and if they manage to get through the never-ending 78 minutes, feel swindled.