Scar Blu-ray – Full Screen, September 11, 2012

Having seen Angela Bettis in one of the remakes of the popular "Carrie" movies, I was familiar with her acting style from the onset. However, I was totally unprepared for this.The scene...Joan Burrows is a teenager, lured into the work place of a popular mortician, Ernie Bishop, with her best friend, Susie Thomas in order to get Joan's banged-up knee patched up. Bishop, a nice-looking, courteous man perhaps in his late 20's or early 30's from first glance, gains the girls' trust and is soon flirted with by Joan. Under the premise of getting ointment and bandages for Joan's knee, Susie follows Bishop down to the morgue and is not seen again until later. "So you're not bothered by the sight of blood?" asks Bishop to Joan. When she replies "No, not really", Bishop covers her nose and mouth with a chloroform-soaked cloth and she's soon knocked out cold. Later, she wakes up in the morgue next to Susie who is covered in blood and slashes from shoulders to toes, tied down to an autopsy table by rubber tubing like Susie is. This is where it gets a bit gruesome, so I recommend you don't watch this part alone or if you happen to love jumpy moments like I do, then by all means...!Bishop decides to play a game with the two girls and tortures them each in turn, saying that the only way the game will stop is if one of them demands that he kill the other. Best friends, neither girl can say it, until Bishop cuts out Susie's tongue and is about to do the same to terrified Joan. I won't spoil the ending for you, however I will say that the twist at the end is TOTALLY worth it and in the style of true slasher films, there's blood and gore galore, with a few gratuitous tit shots.I'm a fan of all types of horror flicks, mainly because I love trying to tear them apart logically, but there are times when I just crave a good old fashioned scare fest and this definitely gives you that. There are scream-worthy moments and some groan-worthy ones, a healthy dose of each through the entire film, but all in all, I would completely and totally recommend this to anyone who loves movies like this.

Scar is not your typical indie horror/slasher flick for many reasons like its writing, direction, locations and overall production values.The story is interesting enough and will keep the viewer attention for what or who's next on the list. The story isn't a brain teaser nor will it give you a headache to try and figure out, but it is entertaining and that alone is worth the time to watch this blood fest.The actors do a fairly good job of telling and selling this tourture filled story in two parts (past and present) through flashbacks/nightmares of a survivor Joan (Bettis) from the first attacks. I know its kinda vauge for a reason (no spoilers allowed) and it wouldn't take much to give away all the gory details.Not long after Joan Burrows (Bettis) returns home after an extended absence to see her brother Jeff (Titus) and his daughter Olympia (Blanton) do things start to happen. People are missing and one is found dead at an annual event. This is enough for Joan (who hasn't recovered from her attack and survival) to start telling everyone that the attacks are starting again, but it can't be or can it ???The movie has a fair amount of cursing including the F...word and violence. It also has scenes of tourture (although not as severe as some recent movies) with gallons of blood that is at times somewhat graphic. There is also a topless nude scene of a girl trying to get her boyfriends attention? 4 stars for a good attempt with somewhat limited resources that otherwise would score this movie 3 stars.Ps. I'm a big fan of Chris Titus although he doesn't provide any comic relief in this story.

For starters, if you're getting this movie to have an inexpensive flick to feed your brand new 3D set-up, then pick another. This movie is presented in an anaglyphic format (Red-Blue glasses), and doesn't take advantage of either active shutter or passive ("cinema") 3d systems. As for the quality of the anaglyphic 3D (I bypassed the included cardboard and cellophane glasses and used the  Red-blue / Cyan Anaglyph Simple style 3D Glasses  that I bought for watching 3D content on YouTube), prepare for a lot of ghosting that comes and goes. The red-blue tinting aside, some shots seem perfectly produced with a rich, deep 3D effect, only to cut to another angle with severe ghosting and no real dimension to speak of. At about 15 minutes into the movie, the disappearing/reappearing ghosting got so annoying that I switched out to 2D to finish the movie.As to the movie itself, it's a passable low-budget modern grindhouse flick. It's an HD flick, but with that grainy, well-used quality of low-budget cinema everywhere. The writing and acting aren't particularly stellar, but they're earnest. It's refreshing to see a low budget horror feature that didn't opt for comedy in lieu of being able to produce real scares, but instead tried to deliver the best experience it could.The much-touted gore in other reviews is primarily off-camera with two or three notable exceptions. What you do get are buckets and buckets of blood. Blood-drenched clothes, blood-splattered walls, and off-camera jets of blood spraying the characters down -- usually followed by a brief glimpse of the aftermath of whatever generated said jets (often not nearly as bad as what your imagination cooked up while it was off-camera). It's no  Saw 3D: The Final Chapter , but that's not necessarily a bad thing. However, you should prepare for intense scenes of torture. I said it wasn't that gory -- not that it's pretty.

This is the German blu ray 3D version (it was only ever released in 3D in the UK on DVD with supplied coloured lens glasses). It comes with an English track but, like the German track, only features Dolby 5.1 – pretty poor for a blu ray. The picture quality is okay but the soundtrack is marred by a very insipid score for a horror film that does nothing to ramp up the atmosphere or tension properly. The 3D is well above average as the “before the screen” pop-out element is frequently used unlike in most poor modern 3D films. One significant negative is that it has been censored. The climatic scene ends in some graphic violence that starts then immediately ends in this cut showing that it was blatantly censored. I dug out an old DVD and compared. The UK version is uncut and that scene is far longer and very significantly gorier as revenge is taken. I don’t know if any other cuts were made by the German FSK censor but I wasn't aware of any. The film itself is okay and, I thought, better than the critics said, but certainly not for a general audience. I thought it was better than some of the more extreme so-called horror porn films of that time. The disc contains no extras.

The start of the disc worked perfectly/introductions worked perfectly though when the main feature came on, it would not play at all.I contacted the supplier and I was treated with great respect and a high standard of customer service and my issue was resolved immediately.I have only rated this particular movie a one star only, HOWEVER, it would most certainly NOT stop me from purchasing from the same company again in the future. I think this was just a bad disc.Please do not be put off using this company because of this particular incident.I shall definitely be using them again.

If you're looking for something original look elsewhere, but if you're just looking for a basic slasher / torture horror movie with some decent suspense, a few good & bloody kills and the obligatory twist ending you could do a lot worse than this one.Two girls are invited into a funeral home by a charming guy who has twisted plans for them. He chloroforms one girl and then tracks down and captures her friend as well, subjecting them to a grueling torture scene that forces one of them to choose if the other dies. This all happens within the first half hour and sets the stage for the sickness that follows. At times there are slow moments in the middle section of the movie but I never thought it was boring. It picks up nicely in the last half hour with a stunning twist and suspenseful climax involving 3 girls tied up in a basement repeating the twisted 'choice' torment of the first scene.It's not very original but is a decent generic slasher / torture horror flick that isn't nearly as bad as some would have you believe.

For a Horror film, this has a story, good characters, and blood and gore, well worth the money

The DVD arrived very promptly and was a truly scary film. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a blood thirsty film.