Scar (film)

Scar is a 2007 American slasher film, directed by Jed Weintrob on a screenplay by Zack Ford, starring Angela Bettis.

For the antagonist of The Lion King, see Scar (The Lion King).
Scar
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJed Weintrob
Written byZack Ford
Produced byDouglas Berquist
Jamie Gordon
Courtney Potts
Norman Twain
StarringAngela Bettis
Kirby Bliss Blanton
Devon Graye
Ben Cotton
Christopher Titus
CinematographyToshiaki Ozawa
Edited byChris Figler, Jason Watkins
Music byRoger Neill
Release date
  • August 24, 2007 (2007-08-24) (Montréal World Film Festival)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4 million
Box office$4,940,153[1]

Plot

Joan Burrows (Bettis) returns to her hometown of Ovid, Colorado to attend her niece Olympia's (Blanton) 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 (Cotton). 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

Production

The production office opened on September 5, 2006 and had a scheduled 25 days of shooting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada beginning October 3, 2006.[3]

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).

Reception

The film holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 18 reviews, with the critic consensus being “A nasty, witless and unoriginal entry into the torture porn canon with hopeless acting and a waste of modern 3D technology.” [4]

Release

On May 19, 2007 Scar3D opened at the Cannes Film Market. It was a box office failure, earning $4,940,153 against a $4 million budget.[5]

References
  1. "Scar".
  2. "Scar". fangoria.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  3. "Angela Bettis in 3-D... on the Big Screen?!". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  4. "Scar (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  5. "Scar".
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