Scar (2013)

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

When i was looking round a local shop for a fun Saw or Friday the 13th style film,i spotted a very good looking Saw-style cover,that could be watched in 3-D!.And though it looked like a fun gory type of film,it ended up being an okay horror film,that is partly let down by being jaw-droopingly terrible in 3-D The plot:A woman goes back to her old town for the first time in sixteen years to visit her niece and brother.This is the first time the she has been back to the town since she and her best friend got kidnapped by a serial killer the got them to play a "game",the was that he would use very sharp blades to cut and scar each of them,until one of them tells him to kill the other one.But,even though she has done everything the she can to move on from this in her life,when she comes back to the town,friends of her niece start turning up dead,having been very badly scared,she decides that she has to face her troubles again,and try to find out how the killer has started up again.View on the film:The screenplay is by Zack Ford,although Ford keeps the torture set pieces that have now been done to death in these types of film,he is able to do slightly different things with the set up to the story.This is done by not having the main characters being in a group or with there boyfriends,instead they have the main two people in the film be girls that are on there own,the you feel really could be friends.The director is Jed Weintrob,and one of the main things that lets the film down is Weintrob doing Hostel/Saw style deaths with no creativity at all,the makes most of them very unrememberable.And i feel the i have to point out how disappointed i am with the shockingly bad 3-D version of the film,with almost the whole film being in black and white for no reason at all,and the bits of colour the are used in the film (such as a global map in someones bedroom being in colour)have no point at all of being the highlighted parts of the film,which end up making the film look like a very,very bad Sin City.Final view on the film:A horror film with a good set up,the is let down by some boring torture scenes and some terrible 3-D filming.

I saw the 3D version of this movie in a Belgian theater last week. I did not expect anything special of this movie, but it was 3D, and the last time I experienced that, was in Eurodisney. So I thought it would be cool. Unfortunately the 3D didn't work out very well. Maybe the glasses weren't good enough. Anyway.The movie has some cool new gore effects. Some effects that are really nasty to watch and twisted to even think of. The girls are nice to watch but unfortunately, this film is just another Hostel inspired teen movie. At the end there are some typical "no-one believes me" and "I did it because of blah blah blah". I don't know why this movie is shown in theaters. It's descent enough for straight to DVD.To bad. This had potential

Saw it today, in Russia it is all over the theaters and to be honest, I wasn't disappointed. Do not expect suspense. Do not expect that much HORROR itself - there was gore, a god awful amount of gory torturing. Angela Bettis was surprisingly not as good as she usually is (May; Girl, Interrupted), but she fit the character pretty well. Bliss Blanton glows and shines, I've never seen her in a movie before, but she was extremely pretty. The plot.. well, it keeps you entertained. And, as I saw it in 3D, I was exited and pleased to see things actually look like they were in front of me, plus the titles and the cast in the intro flying right into your face is pretty spectacular - I found myself smiling as I didn't experience much of 3D action (Spy Kids were not as 3D as this one) and it was nice. Do not expect much, expect a good 3D (no full presence, for Christ's sake, they didn't have an opportunity to suddenly bring three-dimensional to a new absolutely amazing level), expect a gore fest (I found myself turning away in a few scenes, it was gorier than the "Saw" series was") and you won't be disappointed. No masterpiece, pretty enjoyable overall.