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"This is how the game works"

"It's not a game"

"If you don't want me cut you, just say kill her"

Cries, screams, blood, and scalpels.

"Let me kill Joan"

"No"

Pours alcohol on cuts.

"Can I kill her?"

"No"

"This can keep going for a very long time"

Enter staple gun.

"Look at your thighs. You can make this end; just tell me to kill Joan"

"No"

Enter scalpel, exit tongue.

"Say the words and let me put her out of her misery"

"No"

"OK then, an eye for an eye, and a tongue for a tongue"

Screams.

"OK"

"OK what?"

"Do it"

"Do what?"

"Kill her"

"You're getting the hang of the game. You tell me to keep on killing, and you get to keep on living"

Thus is the basic premise of the torture porn flick, Scar 3-D. Survivor of a sadistic attack by a demented mortician, Joan Burrows (Angela Bettis May), is returning home to visit her police officer brother Jeff (Christopher Titus Titus), and niece Olympia (Kirby Bliss Blanton Hannah Montana) for Olympia's high school graduation. Almost as soon as Joan is back, two of the graduating class disappears mysteriously. As the mutilated body of one appears, another student disappears. Much like when Joan was being held by Bishop (Ben Cotton Slither). What follows is a series of found bodies and disappearing students. Among the new characters around town is the new mortuary director Melvin Gray (Bill Baksa Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), Olympia's friend Paul (Devon Grave Dexter), and Paul's father (James D. Hopkin Fear Itself).

Part of the film is told through flashbacks of Joan's capture with her friend Susie while partying in the cemetery, ensuing torture at the hand of Bishop, and her eventual escape and killing of her tormentor. The flashbacks are spaced nicely to coincide with events in the current storyline. But it's not enough to save this film from mediocrity. While the movie has good, disturbing scenes and story, it never lives up to its full potential.

Special Features:

Scar 3-D come in both a 2-D and 3-D version with two pairs of 3-D classes

Theatrical Trailer

16:9 Widescreen

5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound English 2.0 Stereo

Karl Grade:

Acting B

Setting A-

Special Effects B+

Creep Factor A

Tension C-

What The Heck Moments Disturbing themes, mediocre otherwise.

Overall C-

Scar 3-D is one of those films that has a tremendous amount of potential, but comes up lacking at the end of the day. The concept of your torture, and even death, being in the hands of your tortured friend, whose own well being is controlled by your ability to withstand punishment is disturbing and terrifying. To have your life at the hands of someone whose life is in your tortured hands is scarier than being in the hands of a psychopath. But they took this concept and buried it in mediocrity, and the obvious of plot gimmicks.

Surrounded by a young up-and-coming cast, Angela Bettis turns in a believable performance as the soul, tortured by the death of her friend, and Christopher Titus, known for his comedic roles, is excellent as the father and brother who must hold the remaining family together. The acting, coupled with the flashback scenes, make this movie worth watching, just not getting excited for.

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To start. Forget the 3D it's no good. There isn't really any special effects that requires 3D. Watch it in 2D. If you like Saw and Hostel you love this movie. Lots of gore, blood torture. Don't pass this up.

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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.

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I want my money back. I thought I was getting top 3d quality, and what I got was a screw ball movie that I could not watch properly because you can only watch the movie with the cheapo 3d glasses you get with the cd and can't use active glasses. Don't buy.

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Joan Burrows (Angela Bettis looking like a roughed up version of Christina Ricci) returns to her home town of Ovid for a reunion with family. She is haunted by past memories (and a facial scar), about a weird slasher named Bishop (Ben Cotton) who killed her friend as well as giving her a scar. The flashbacks are used to make comparisons with Bishop, the killer, and somewhat creepy kid named Paul (Devon Graye) who is a friend of her niece Olympia (Kirby Bliss Blanton). Paul's dad (James D. Hopkin) is a bit of a psycho from being in Iraq.

Meanwhile teens have a graduation party. Drinking, pot smoking, and a girl(thank you Kristin Kowalski) who strips down to her panties and says, "Howard! Come here and take my virginity. I'm not graduating with it!" As in any good teen slasher movie, kids by the lake who want to have sex... The body count rises, but we don't get to see the killer, nor the kids being tortured. Instead we get flashbacks to the Burrows/Bishop torture. Don't worry, if you missed Joan Burrows getting her face cut, they show it again. The theme of the murders is "would you kill a friend to save yourself." However the movie rarely delves into that theme, rather it just shows us dead bodies.

The film culminates in a far too predictable poorly written ending.