Scarred

Scarred really is a shocker, but not in a good way. The acting is consistently sub-par. The plot is predictable. The setting unwaveringly bright and sunny which is not conducive of anything scary. And on I could go.

Make-up is critical to a movie about facio-ectomies, face removal. It is appalling in this instance. It is sympathy inducing rather than scarry. The point where Juliane Berlin reaches out in friendship in a positive way to Hannah Lea, the monster only to see Lea attacked, turns the tables. The good guys are suddenly the callous baddies.

To the films credit it does reintroduces the scream queen in a fairly emphatic manner. For volume and hysteria, it's hard to beat. And that's just Jonny Mack! As well as many of the cast engaging in theatrical yelling it is worth noting that the pretty quotient is very high. Particularly amongst the female cast members. There are no normal looking cast members apart from one Hillbilly.

Technically, well, good enough seems to have been good enough. A tent flapping in the middle of the night and letting in daylight with every movement is only one of many glitches.

The movie looks as though it were shot on a mobile phone. The Cinematographer, Eliot Rockett does his best and there are some nice shots scattered throughout.

There are some feeble attempts at jump scares, but these are predictable and are generally lackluster.

It is easy to pick apart a bad film. I could go on and on. I'm certain that directors and writers Jon Hoffman and Dave Rock didn't set out to make a bad film but they must have had suspicions during production that Scarred would be a straight to video then discount store production.

Still, a steady diet of caviar desensitizers us to its delectable and rarefied taste. We need occasionally to sample some cheap seafood filler to help us appreciate caviar. Scarred is cheap sea food filler.