Scar

NR 4.1
2013 1 hr 24 min Horror , Thriller , Crime

Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.

  • Cast:
    Angela Bettis , Kirby Bliss Blanton , Devon Graye , Ben Cotton , Al Sapienza , Brittney Wilson , Tegan Moss

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Reviews

Fluentiama
2013/02/12

Perfect cast and a good story

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Konterr
2013/02/13

Brilliant and touching

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Pacionsbo
2013/02/14

Absolutely Fantastic

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Justina
2013/02/15

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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horacedumpling
2013/02/16

Truly shocking indeed, but for all the wrong reasons. Bad acting, poor plot ( clearly lifted from the likes of Saw, Hostel and Halloween and a whole load of others ) plot holes galore, diabolical script, the direction lacks originality and far too much use of colour filters in a desperate attempt to add " effect ". The special effects were not too bad, but for all the reasons mentioned I felt distracted. The ending was nothing short of an episode of Scooby Doo. Throughout the entire film my partner and I just laughed, rolled our eyes in despair and exclaimed " Oh as if ".Thank God for " Hillside Cannibals " otherwise this would have been THE worst film I've ever seen.

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Joe Miller
2013/02/17

I was putting this movie off due to the low ratings on IMDb and I was quite surprised on how much I did enjoy this. The main reason I watched this was for Christopher Titus ( Who I found from comedy specials ) and was interested in seeing him in a horror movie let alone play a serious person. He did a great job playing Jeff and I was very impressed how he went from funny to serious in this movie. Although I figured out the killer pretty early on I still enjoyed this movie. I do love violence and gore so that might be why but I did like the actors/actresses as well. All in all great movie. I give "Scar" an 8 out of 10.~Joe

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Claudio Carvalho
2013/02/18

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")

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AcidRaina
2013/02/19

I usually check a films rating on IMDb out before deciding to watch it. The rating combined with a few other details (writer, director, actors) usually helps me decide if its going to be worth my time. Luckily I'm an Angela Bettis fan or else I would have missed out on this sick little flick.The killer was obvious before anyone had even died and there were some all too familiar horror clichés, but I found many scenes in the film to be brutally disturbing and I'm far from squeamish. Yes it was gory, but anyone who has searched out this film has most likely seen worse. The reason it seemed so brutal was really because of the characters and the situation they were forced into. I found the concept of being tortured until you give the word to kill a friend or family member to be sick and terrifying.I've seen this movie compared to Hostel, but besides the gore, which was much milder than Hostel, I can't see the similarity at all. In Hostel you had a group of guys I personally couldn't care less about getting methodically tortured. I felt Scar invested more time into its storyline and some, though not all, of its characters which made it even harder to watch when they were viciously tortured and killed.Bettis did a good job as usual and the film effectively disturbed me which is no easy task. All in all I'd have to say it was a decent little horror flick definitely worth a rainy day viewing.

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