YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN!!!!!!!!

 

So did anyone like this? I found it one of the most boring films this year...obv the 3D was a gimmick they had to use to make people intersted as they knew what a useless production they were making from the beginning...

I'll copy over from Rooney's thread what I thought of this film.. I mean, apart from it being just SOOOOO fukkin' tedious, boring and incredibly intelligence-insulting in terms of plot, here we have the added "bonus" of 3-D and the fact that now it's not just young women or college students being subjected to sexualised torture, now it's underage teenage girls

 

With "Scar 3D" in particular it just seems, the younger and prettier and the more they bleed, scream, beg for their lives and cry, the better.... I found it even worse than films like "Hostel 2" or "Captivity" chiefly because of the clearly very young age of the on-screen female victims... The script-writer even goes so far as to make the point that the girls are 17, therefore underage (in the States...), it's all just a bit grubby really.. There's even another scene in which a young girl goes wandering around the forest wearing only panties, saying to her boyfriend who refuses to have sex with her "If you wont take my virginity, then I'll find someone who will" (I dont know of ANY girl or woman who would ever do something like that, unless it's in the sicko, pervy fantasies of male Hollywood scriptwriters of course...), needless to say, she ends up dead... This is just pure, vile titilation.. It was always pretty obvious in films like "Halloween", "Buffy" and "Friday 13th", that the "teens" were all about age 20 or over...LOL.

 

I dont really so much object to the use of sexuality in horror films, but there ARE ways of going about things that dont seem so nasty as this... The typical 80s slasher film was simply not as vile or unpleasant as "Scar" was, it was just a bit of 'stabby stabby' and that was it really.. I think also that if one is to look at films like "Martyrs", "The Ordeal", "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" and "Haute Tension", these are modern horrors that ALL use sexuality, but then do things in such a way within the text to completely dumfound all expectations of the genre...

 

There was one woman, sat in front of me, must've been not much older than 25/26 who walked out after the sequence where a girl has her tongue cut out in incredibly nasty detail... This was the one walkout that I actually saw, there could certainly have been more... There were no theatrical shrieks from the audience (which you'd kind of expect for a 3-D horror film LOL...), people just sat in stone silence, probably either sickened by the violence portrayed against the (disturbingly) young female victims or bored to tears, or both... I heard even males saying to their mates that the film was "fukked up".

 

"Scar" is NOT edgy, nor extreme, nor stylish... It's just squalid.... ALL of these "shocking" 70s Italian horror films that Shameless is putting out on DVD at the moment are pretty damned tame by comparison.... I mean, "Strip Nude For Your Killer" or "What Have They Done To Your Daughters?" sound incredibly exploitative, but compared to this are cinematic p*ssy-cats and nowhere near as nasty as their titles suggest, in fact, they have a certain amount of style to them, especially the latter, which actually has a few pertinent things to say about the hypocrisy of the "great and good" Italian society......

 

"Scar 3-D" has no 'point' to make at all, other than to make young girls bleed and scream... Nice.... <_<

 

I'm not even gonna give this squalid piece of cr@p a rating.....

This was a waste of time, aload of rubbish, 3D was pointless. :mellow:

I'll copy over from Rooney's thread what I thought of this film..

 

where was that as couldn't find that thread...

 

"Scar" is NOT edgy, nor extreme, nor stylish... It's just squalid.... ALL of these "shocking" 70s Italian horror films that Shameless is putting out on DVD at the moment are pretty damned tame by comparison.... I mean, "Strip Nude For Your Killer" or "What Have They Done To Your Daughters?" sound incredibly exploitative, but compared to this are cinematic p*ssy-cats and nowhere near as nasty as their titles suggest, in fact, they have a certain amount of style to them, especially the latter, which actually has a few pertinent things to say about the hypocrisy of the "great and good" Italian society......

 

yeah think your right there is a whole other anylictical approach to those kinds of Italian Horror films which may or may not bring in religion and politics of the time (see also policital themes from The Best Of Youth) as well as just general exploation...for example the Italian of something like "Strip Nude For Your Killer" may turn out to be something like 'Hello Vicar here's some nice crumpet for your tea' but as it goes throu distrib get more and more outlandish titles...

where was that as couldn't find that thread...

yeah think your right there is a whole other anylictical approach to those kinds of Italian Horror films which may or may not bring in religion and politics of the time (see also policital themes from The Best Of Youth) as well as just general exploation...for example the Italian of something like "Strip Nude For Your Killer" may turn out to be something like 'Hello Vicar here's some nice crumpet for your tea' but as it goes throu distrib get more and more outlandish titles...

 

I just got another one during the week.. Umberto Lenzi's Oasis of Fear (aka "Dirty Pictures"..) from '71, there's a fair smattering of nudity and sexy stuff (particularly with regards to a young, seriously cute Ornella Muti), but apart from the one murder and the threat of torture, it's not really at all violent despite the 18 Cert... What the film's really about is how the old, bourgeois and corrupt ultimately destroy the young, uncorrupted and free-spirited... It's very hippy-era in its approach (often hilariously so), but I think the points the film makes are quite valid....