Scar (film)

Scar
Scar
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jed Weintrob
Written by	Zack Ford
Produced by	Douglas Berquist; Jamie Gordon; Courtney Potts; Norman Twain;
Starring	Angela Bettis; Kirby Bliss Blanton; Devon Graye; Al Sapienza; Ben Cotton; Brittney Wilson; Monika Mar-Lee; Carey Feehan; Tegan Moss; Christopher Titus;
Cinematography	Toshiaki Ozawa
Edited by	Chris Figler
Music by	Roger Neill
Production; company	Norman Twain Productions
Distributed by	Phase 4 Films
Release dates	August 24, 2007 (Montréal World Film Festival); October 1, 2010 (United States);
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million
Box office	$4.9 million

Scar (also known as Scar 3D) is a 2007 American slasher film directed by Jed Weintrob, written by Zack Ford, and starring Angela Bettis.

Plot

Joan Burrows returns to her hometown of Ovid, Colorado to attend her niece Olympia's high school graduation, but finds herself confronted by her past. Before their graduation is to occur, a young couple goes missing and within a few days a mutilated body is found in the water during a town fish festival. This initiates flashbacks in which Joan's dark past is learned. When Joan was 17, she and her best friend were kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer named Bishop. Bishop bound Joan and her friend to an autopsy table where one girl was tortured while the other had the power to make it stop simply by demanding the death of the friend.^[2] Joan was able to escape and kill her captor, but was left as the sole survivor of the spree with a scar on her cheek. With the present day's body count rising, questions arise whether Bishop has evaded death or if a copycat killer has arisen.^[2]

Cast

Angela Bettis as Joan Burrows
Kirby Bliss Blanton as Olympia Burrows
Ben Cotton as Ernie Bishop
Devon Graye as Paul Watts
Al Sapienza as Delgado
Christopher Titus as Jeff Burrows
Monika Mar-Lee as Sandra
Tegan Moss as Susie Louise
Brittney Wilson as Young Joan Burrows
Brandon Jay McLaren as Howard
Carey Feehan as Brian
Kristin Kowalski as April
Bill Baksa as Melvin Gray
James D. Hopkin as Phillip Watts
Emma Duncan as Principal

Production

The film was first announced in August 2006 under the title Scar with May actress Angela Bettis attached as the lead and Zack Ford writing the script.^[3] Production was slated to begin in the fall with Jed Weintrob directing, who previously helmed Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge and Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders.^[4] Production offices for the film opened on September 5, 2006 and had a scheduled 25 days of shooting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada beginning October 3, 2006.^[5]

The postproduction process was done at FotoKem, Technicolor, and Plaster City in Los Angeles. Final stereoscopic adjustments were done in Skip City in Kawaguchi, Japan with NTS (a division of NHK).

Release

Scar premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival on August 24, 2007. The film was released domestically through video on demand by Phase 4 Films on October 1, 2010.^[6] The film had a limited theatrical release internationally, earning $4,940,153 against a $4 million budget.^[1]

Home media

The film was released on blu-ray and DVD by Phase 4 Films on March 29, 2011.^[7]

Reception

The film holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 18 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads “A nasty, witless and unoriginal entry into the torture porn canon with hopeless acting and a waste of modern 3D technology.” ^[8]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote "another week, another yucky horror film with a title that sounds like Saw.^[9] For Time Out, Nigel Floyd called the film an "odd mix of ’70s slasher-movie plotting and modern charnel house depravity".^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "Scar (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Scar". fangoria.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
^ Green, Willow (August 21, 2006). "Angela Bettis Has A Scar". Empire Online. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ Butane, Johnny (August 22, 2006). "Bettis Gets a New Scar". Dread Central. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ "Angela Bettis in 3-D... on the Big Screen?!". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
^ Pacheo, Jared (September 30, 2010). "2007 Slasher Flick Scar to Be the First 3D Film to Hit Video-On-Demand". JoBlo. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ Barton, Steve (January 10, 2011). "Scar 3D Finally Coming Home to Blu-ray and DVD". Dread Central. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ "Scar (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
^ Bradshaw, Peter (7 November 2008). "Scar 3D Review". The Guardian. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
^ Floyd, Nigel (November 4, 2008). "Scar 3-D Review". Time Out. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

External links

[Scar-1] "Scar (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[fango-2] "Scar". fangoria.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2007-08-13.

[3] Green, Willow (August 21, 2006). "Angela Bettis Has A Scar". Empire Online. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[4] Butane, Johnny (August 22, 2006). "Bettis Gets a New Scar". Dread Central. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[3D-5] "Angela Bettis in 3-D... on the Big Screen?!". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13.

[6] Pacheo, Jared (September 30, 2010). "2007 Slasher Flick Scar to Be the First 3D Film to Hit Video-On-Demand". JoBlo. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[7] Barton, Steve (January 10, 2011). "Scar 3D Finally Coming Home to Blu-ray and DVD". Dread Central. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[8] "Scar (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2020.

[9] Bradshaw, Peter (7 November 2008). "Scar 3D Review". The Guardian. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

[10] Floyd, Nigel (November 4, 2008). "Scar 3-D Review". Time Out. Retrieved June 25, 2022.

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