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It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

"Scar" is a rather huge disappointment considering it could've been great.**SPOILERS**Worried about each other, Tom, (Randy Wayne) and his friend Jenny, (Ashley Nelson) decide to take a trip together to help him get over his suppressed memories of the past. Managing to find the location where a friend was killed a year ago while he barely escaped, things get even more confusing when Anne, (Claire Mills) comes along, claiming that the people who killed his friend, Daphne, (Rochelle Vallese) and Cassie Tipton, (Klara Jolesz) are her sister and her daughter who died years before they would've come into contact with him and his friend. Trying to get a handle on everything they know, they realize the true nature of the situation and race to stop the events from happening again that will terrorize the group.The Good News: There was some good stuff to this one that helps it out. The opening is suitably creepy, as the set-up is classic for a slasher film, and with the actions within setting up the blood-trail discovery that leads into the woods' chase, it has a good starting point, and when a later flashback completes it with a better explanation of what happened, this one seems to start off rather well. The lone walk-through of the house is nice, since it has a creepy location to help this out and the action within is pretty creepy. That it's connected with a forest stalking that is fairly well-done and creepy makes it a triple-attack when the inclusion of the bone-hand is discovered and the ramifications it has to the story. That also plays into account with a bit throughout the film, wherein everyone who survives contact with them has a scar on their stomach which plays into the flow of the film very nicely and gives it a really creepy feel based on the ramifications it has more-so than the actual effect of it. Another big flashback, where we learn the true history of what happened with the family to earn them their current condition, is well-done, mixing in present-day knowledge of their antics and offers up rational and logical answers to that feeling, which is what should happen in that type of scene. The double-attack in the cabin, where the two big kill scenes occur, are the highlight since the first one is a great suspenseful build-up that provides some nice gore while the second, involving a witness' attempt to fight back against the ghosts, provides a creepy feel when it's all played out and the whole scene comes off nicely. The finale, which features everything from a chase through the house while brandishing an axe to a supernatural battle between the two sides that offers up some really original ways of doing so and finishing things up with a great suspense scene in the forest makes it a really great way of ending everything. The last plus here is the film's kills, which are pretty good. There's an axe impaled in the back and the chest, a decapitation, multiple slice wounds across the stomach and chest and an axe rammed into the head. These here are the film's good points.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot of flaws, but the ones here are pretty big ones that are what hold it down. One of the biggest issues is that, while the film is in the beginning setting up its plot, things are unraveled so slowly that it's hard to really get into them properly, and as a result, it becomes confusing rather than creepy, which is what seems to be the intended result. The film doesn't bother to say anything that happened at the beginning to the friend, which leaves those actions confusing until bothering to spell them out in a flashback later that recaps the entirety of the scene before while adding on the results then, but this is done much later and only after they finally arrive at the motel, stopping for more exposition along the way so it can then get away with the extended recap. That is a continued trend with the film, tending to take too long to tell anything, and then when it does, it tries to think that the events are creepy when in reality, they aren't and are really just confusing since it piles on and piles on different elements in a never-ending series of twists that are just way too much to take in when it deals them out. The last half has a ton of twists, from the revelation of the ghosts to the owner's beliefs and the family member saga and then the finale in the cabin, which is a ton of things to go through and in the end this one just has way too much going on to really get much more out of it. Another big flaw is the film's tendency to really add in more stuff than necessary to compensate for the overabundance of plot, and the most notably and egregious is the inclusion of the sheriff. While there is a point to having him there, his scenes serve as nothing more than cannon-fodder and he wastes a ton of time doing a lazy investigation that seems to consist entirely of harassing the heroes without any sort of reasoning for why that makes logical sense, continuing the film's long-standing trend of featuring moments that are quite unnecessary. The last plus is the painful and utterly-terrible gore, as it's all rendered in CGI blood-splashes that aren't the least bit hidden and all too obvious. These here are the film's problems.The Final Verdict: This here can only be called a massive disappointment considering this had all the potential to be something interesting, but in the end it isn't. Really only recommended to those who enjoy these types of horror-thrillers, while those looking for something more substantial should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity

After witnessing the murder of his best friend while the two were backpacking in the woods, Tom(Randy Wayne), along with the dead guy's girlfriend, Jenny(Ashley C Nelson), decide to return to the town where it happened. Tom's memories of that day are cloudy so he hopes to understand more about the women responsible for his pal, Zack's(Brad Pennington) demise. Finding the cabin where the two women lived, Jenny encounters the ghost of young woman Zack attempted to sleep with, and the touch of her hand causes a frightening developing scar. This scar could represent the stab wound caused by the accidental ax murder of the girl at the hands of her mother who was attempting to kill a local she thought was raping her daughter. Tom must figure out how to stop the scar from eventually killing Jenny or else lose yet another friend. As Tom and Jenny seek answers, some disturbing truths arise, regarding a video store clerk's actions in the deaths that occurred to the mother and daughter that day along with the father who found his family dead. Tom and Jenny encounter a hostile town sheriff(Joe Esteves)and a chain-smoking motel owner(Dee Wallace) who also dabbles in spiritualism along the way. Tom and Jenny soon believe that in order to cease the supernatural occurrences that continue a relative of the mother and daughter ghosts must be found.Kooky plotting and bloody ax murders, with a more substantial role for Dee Wallace than usual for such a low-budget supernatural slasher flick(..nowadays, she's often in cameos). The whole scenario with the father of the murdered family yields a really wild twist, and his reaction to seeing his wife and daughter's spirit certainly is a startling moment in the film, towards the end, for he might just hold the answer to how the horror can end. Joe Estevez has the role of hick son of a bitch sheriff who berates our heroes, warning them to get out of his town or else. His fate is not pretty. Poor Wallace battles the evolving scar(..she also witnessed the ghost girl, touching her), almost surviving, only to be on the receiving end of an ax toss meant for a fleeing Jenny. The plot is mostly confined to Wallace's motel(..where Tom and Jenny have a room), the haunted log cabin(..where the repeated cycle, of the horrible day when the girl and her mother perished, continues, with alive male victims, unknowingly, substituting her boyfriend), and videostore with the weirdo who operates it holding a terrible secret concerning his involvement with everything that takes place. Wayne and Nelson aren't exactly the most appealing leads, but I've seen worse performances. The violence is mostly victims(..males who wind up in the role of the boyfriend the girl was supposed to be making out with when the mother surprised them)falling prey to ax wielding mom who swings with a vengeance. Low budget is certainly a detriment to the filmmakers and several of the ax attacks are blatantly obvious computer generated efforts that show badly.

I usually can't make it through a bad movie. I turn it off and go on to another, but this one the actors made me want to finish.I bought about 10 movies that K-MART had out because of Halloween and they all looked like they would be low budget crap, but I am a horror freak and love a lot of the low budget crap. I watched one of them called 13 SECONDS and it was one of the worst movies acting wise that I'd ever seen.I was reluctant to watch this one, but decided I would give it a try and I set there watching thinking they focused way too much on a story that was stupid, and was very laughable.The acting was bad for the most part, the directing was dull and I can't say enough about how dumb the story was but thats all the bad things I have to say about it.The production wasn't as low budget as I expected. The sets and such were okay. The special effects weren't Tom Savini great or anything, but they weren't that shabby.I love Dee Wallace-Stone and have the highest respects for her, so it was good seeing her, shes a great actress. Joe Estevez is likable, but I don't think he's a great actor, just simply unique and I like that about him. Charlie Sheen is the only one in that family that has real talent if you ask me - Martin's okay but no better than Joe. Dee and Joe couldn't hold this movie up with their smaller parts, but star Randy Wayne did a great job keeping this stupid story interesting.Randy Wayne is a guy I'd seen on a few MTV shows and then forgotten about. He is a natural in my book, he doesn't seem like a guy thats just reading lines, he seems to play the part well. There's a few lines in this movie that I thought he could've done better, but thats up to the director to re-do it. He's going to play in the new DUKES OF HAZARD - THE BEGINNING movie coming out in 2007 and I am glad to see that. The new movie is cast much better than the last. Johnny Knoxville and that other idiot from American Pie sucked as Bo and Luke and made the Dukes of Hazard movie one of the most worthless films I have ever watched. Lets hope Randy Wayne does a much better job and helps make that movie better, like he did for Scar.If You like any of the actors I've mentioned - watch this film, other wise don't waste your time - its pretty bad.

Agree with the poor quality production and actors, but it was mildly entertaining. A bit cheesy-horror, but then again, isn't that a genre of its own? Plenty of cheesy-horror buffs will like it. Sound was similar to telephone-quality, and some scenes look like 8mm, and cheap film too..some scenes look like they were dubbed straight from a camcorder. I have seen worse in my time, however. It will not please the Spielberg audience, but those who like "Evil Dead" and such may like it. One more thing, take a look at the DVD cover and purchase accordingly! If the cover looks cheesy (which it does), then don't expect Jerry Bruckheimer or Tom Cruise