"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

Scar is set in the small town of Wrightwood in Fort Lauderdale where Tom (Randy Wayne) & his friend Jenny (Ashley Nelson) are investigating the death of Zack (Brad Pennington), Tom's best friend & Jenny's boyfriend. Their attention turns to a log cabin in a nearby forest where Zack was killed a year ago, his death is still shrouded in mystery & they hope to discover the truth once & for all. What they find is beyond their imaginations...Co-written & directed by Rahil Bhorania this is a really dull, lifeless & bland ghost story. I wouldn't so much call it a haunted house flick as a haunted log cabin flick which was probably down to the budget as the makers could only afford a small log cabin rather than a proper house! The script by Bhorania & Stephen Goetsch drags on for what feels like forever, it drags badly with an extremely thin storyline which would struggle to fill out an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989 - 1996) & even if it did manage to fill out an episode it would still be rubbish. You don't care about anyone or anything, it's so slow it becomes a real chore to sit through. There's a distinct lack of action or dramatic incident too, virtually nothing happens for long stretches & it really started to test my patience. The dialogue is poor & forgettable, the character's are dull & the story is utterly lifeless. This is the sort of film where the budget dictates what happens rather than the script, one to avoid.Director Bhorania doesn't do anything special, the camera remains fairly static & it's pretty much point & shoot stuff. At least it doesn't go down the route of shaky hand held camera movements & quick cut editing but that's hardly any recommendation on it's own. Forget about any gore because there isn't any apart from a bit of fake blood, certainly nothing to get you gore lovers out there excited. It's not scary, the plot has plenty of holes, there's no tension or atmosphere & a really rubbish ending too.With a supposed budget of about $500,000 the film is alright if you take the ultra low budget into account otherwise it's awful. How the makers manged to convince Dee Wallace from films such as 10 (1979), The Howling (1981), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cujo (1983) & Critters (1986) to appear in this I will never know. Low budget film veteran Joe Estevez (uncle of Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen & Renee Estevez as well as brother of Martin Sheen) has a small role as the local Sheriff.Scar is the sort of dull, forgettable & downright lifeless low budget horror film that didn't do anything for me at all. I seriously doubt most people will find anything remotely enjoyable in this, there are much better films out there.

(written September 2006)Sadly this just is not any good at all. Another low budget horror flick that's not worth your time unless you eat this stuff up. The story looked interesting and original from the back of the box, so I popped it in, eager for a good suspense/thriller movie. But no, it's not good, at all, and if you put it in expecting a good movie then you will be thoroughly disappointed. The acting is bad all around, especially Tom (Randy Wayne), who can't manage to put any real feeling into anything he does, or, even worse, Fred (Paul Darrigo), who's horrible "acting" was actually enough to make me cringe in embarrassment.The plot goes nowhere, and the whole 'mystery' is absolutely ridiculous when it's revealed near the end. The blood mostly looks fake, but there is some good gore (albeit the fact that it's pointless and does not help the story at all). I can't even say this movie was a fun experience, except for Jenny (Ashley Nelson), who was a decent actor at most, and very good looking. Served as something to look at, especially since she was often clad in short shorts or tight white T-shirts. Probably the only redeeming factor of this film.

Here we go again. As if there ain't enough crappy movies out there. This is an insult to the movie industry and to all the viewers. It should be considered a felony to release material such as this. The cast is unskilled & awful. Seems like there's no budget what so ever and the film crew is a bunch of voluntaries working for free. The story is thin, the sound quality horrible. Sometimes it's very hard to understand what the main characters are saying, but this is not due to the poor sound only to the actors/actresses - they are mumbling. Had to turn it off and rest after a while, my brain couldn't take more of this punishment. This movie is a bad joke. I'll never get this 1½ hour back!People! You have been warned.