This makes forty year old ,poor, slasher/gore etc movies look like genuine classic pieces of work.
I was glued to the screen because my carer left me in my multifunctional wheelchair to go upstairs and entertain my partner. They were clever enough to have switched the battery off so I could not call for them to switch the torture off.
Seriously I wonder what proper paid critics made of this.
Many years ago when I saw the early slash gore movies which included Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Jason and Halloween stuff I was amazed at the low standard of acting then. But in hindsight I see that if anyone is impressed with this 'Scarce' in any way it means that the old stuff were works of masters.
I noticed that the 'Slob' was getting a hard on for one of the potential meals. That might have, if followed through been useful as his 'climax' might have been better than the storyline ending.
All well and good these endings where the victims die and the perpetrators are able to continue but just who is telling the story? The previous plausible ,as a piece of entertaining cinema, human 'cannibal' story I saw was 'RAVENOUS' but then we are talking about a completely different movie making and acting playing field.
This SCARCE is selling in shops you know as a so called legitimate piece of movie entertainment.
BTW the 'snowboarding references' completely passed me by. I would have expected them to involve these bits of wood as part of the viewable story to show their skills,(they rode the bikes in THE HILLS HAVE EYES) and also as part of the escape.
I wonder if I could move with a seriously compounded fracture of my tibia especially after so much torture and having my back exposed in something akin to the unpleasant beginnings of a VIKING style blood eagle torture.
I also wonder if the three depraved cannibals knew about the less than 'chef Ramsay' abilities of the local diner cook and his thieving floor staff. The ability to even chop up a piece of meat etc seemed beyond the actor and director to make look realistic.
If Rich Hall a now estranged US comedian who lives VERY HAPPILY in London ,ENGLAND, ever gets to see this he might change his critical opinion on how a great movie 'deliverance' did no favours for how we view the south of the USA and its redneck community. This stereotyped the interbred hill billy picture of the south. What does this , Scarce, tale do in that case. The rape of the 'ugliest' of the friends in Deliverence is nothing in comparison to what this director is telling us could happen should our sat-nav let us down near the everglades etc.
I don't know whether this has put me off Canada or is it Colorado?
Why did the 'slob' have a great need for the food parcels so lovingly put together by our 'not so crack shot' with his perfect Lee Enfield. He had a cellar full of potential meat SOME of them I could have had a good go at eating myself, gently of course and ensuring their survival for my many daily visits. Just in case that should show any discrimination on my part they would have been the ones which had fleshy chests.
Considering the area and the weather conditions it is obvious that the USA is using far too much of the worlds carbon resources as the number of nude yet not cold individuals in this tale shows the UBER waste of heating fuel by POOR peoples. It also showed that American Snow etc or even Canadian snow is not as severe as our one day a year British snow where a few minutes induces frostbite and death from exposure very quickly. I don't think our fully fit and fully equipped SAS could have got as far as the blood angel broken legged tortured individual when given his freedom.
I am just surprised that anyone has thought there were any redeeming qualities to this work other than the British look of the first of our cannibal rednecks teeth.
Now I know why some in the US are against a sort of national health service envisaged by Obama. It's to stop rednecks having access to a decent health care and a need to cull the stupid people ( the victims) from the gene pool.
To watch a movie where cannibalism is not the main theme but hunting a released hostage is the end game for a few cruel middle class respectable young American males look out OPEN SEASON 1974 with (an aged) William Holden and Peter Fonda.
Little gore or blood but a good watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071292/
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