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Scar

2005 · 92 min

A grim, slow-burning woodland mystery that unsettles through dread and small-town secrets rather than jump scares.

Directed by
Rahil Bhorania
Genres
Horror
Tagline
Some wounds never heal.
Overview
While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last attempt to find out what happened to his friend. Following a trail of dead bodies, each one bearing a bleeding scar, Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cryptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle not only for their sanity, but their survival.Everyone in the small town seems to have a secret and when the dreaded scar suddenly appears on Jenny, the two race to find out what evil dwells in the woods.

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Directed by
Rahil Bhorania
Genres
Horror
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • mystery
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • survival
Places
  • small town
  • wilderness
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror8
Humour1
Realism5
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Rahil Bhorania
Starring
Randy Wayne, Ashley C. Nelson, Joe Estevez, Paul Darrigo, Klara Jolesz, Dee Wallace, Christopher Le Crenn
Runtime
92 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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