Product Details

• Actors: Steve Warren, Gary Fischer, Chris Warrilow, Thomas Webb, John Geddes
• Directors: John Geddes, Jesse T. Cook
• Writers: John Geddes, Jesse T. Cook
• Producers: Benjamin Tsui, Blair Lesage, Catherine McFadden, Chris Lesage
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Critical Mass Releas
• DVD Release Date: May 5, 2009
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001T46TC4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,138 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Scarce" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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SCARCE - DVD Movie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars for a while not much happened..., April 2, 2011

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Bookworm936 (In the Middle of NoWhere) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Scarce (DVD)

The acting is really bad so please do not expect to watch this and get real emotion...most of the emotion was rather flat and the pace is very very slow. Nothing seems to happen for a while. A group of friends go to a party, they drink, get stoned, hook up with a girl and pass out. The friends wake up the next morning and start driving home, more driving, driving in heavier snow while the friends perform a flat wooden dialogue. After a while the friends to pull over and eat...then they get back in the car and drive. Nothing much happens until they meet Ivan and thus ensues a predictable series of events. Yep, there is gore. No, there is not any edge of your seat suspense.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How Did I Miss This One?, June 14, 2010

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Dayna Newman "Slasher Diva" (Tampa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scarce (DVD)

Where to begin...

Well, It was "SCARCE" and boring in the beginning but when it decided it pick up it was full speed ahead.To the person who's review said there wasn't enough gore , Are you kidding me ?

This movie will satisfy the most avid splatter or slasher fan.Trust me when I say there is plenty of gore.

I, being a huge lover of the cannibalistic redneck Slasher sub Genre was surprised that I had never heard of this movie before ,so when I read the synopsis thought ok sounds good.

It was very entertaining that's for sure.There were a lot of Gay S&M undertones involved,one scene showing this fat emfeminent redneck playing with a D*ldo and waving it around one dudes mouth then trying to poke another that was hog tied in the behind with it..

Some pretty crazy stuff going on.The effects were good and there were a lot of Gross out moments.If you discard the first 30 or so minutes it was a well crafted, clever The Hills Have Eyes meets Deliverance Meets Shredder Slasher..

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars winter food shortage..., April 1, 2011

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trebe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scarce (DVD)

Three friends cross the path of a group of dedicated meat lovers, in the snowy back country of Pennsylvania, in the suspense thriller Scarce (2008). A low budget independent production shot in mostly in Canada, the film plays out mostly seriously, but has a dark humorous edge that begins to wear thin after a while. Major spoilers follow, so proceed as you will.

After vacationing in Colorado, snowboarding buddies Dustin (Thomas Webb), Owen (John Geddes), and Trevor (Jesse T. Cook), are headed back to New Jersey, when they hit bad weather someplace in Pennsylvania. The group follows directions from a man in a restaurant, and wind up crashing their car. Trevor has severely injured his leg, so his friends trudge off in the snow to find help. They arrive at a cabin owned by a fellow named Ivan (Steve Warren), who drives them back to their car, where they find that Trevor is gone. With bad weather on the way, the two men accept Ivan's invitation to stay for the night.

Things turn nasty the next day, when the two men are ambushed, and imprisoned in Ivan's cellar. There they meet Ivan's ghoulish masked partner in crime, Wade (Gary Fischer). The captors both dearly love the taste of fresh human flesh, and intend to eat their captives. Already a prisoner is their buddy Trevor, who has had some of his flesh sliced from his back, to provide for his friend's dinner the night before. Ivan and Wade decide to finish off Trevor, and he is shot, hung upside down, bled out, butchered, and cooked for dinner.

After being tortured and abused, Dustin and Owen are turned loose in the snow to be hunted down. Barefoot and scantily dressed, the chase through the snow is unrealistic, but still the most exciting thing about the film. Fortunately Ivan is a terrible shot with a rifle. Dustin is recaptured, but Owen has the good fortune of finding their wrecked car, where he gets on some suitable clothing, and grabs a handgun. Returning to Ivan's cabin, Owen wastes a ton of ammo gunning down a third member of the cannibal group (Chris Warrilow), while Dustin takes a chunk out of Ivan. Unfortunately for Owen, his wastefulness with ammo literally comes back to bite him.

Besides acting in the film, John Geddes and Jesse T. Cook co-wrote the screenplay, and also co-directed. Featuring a crazy hermit in a cabin, Scarce has a basic plot that is executed fairly well, with the violence being fairly restrained until the end. Since there aren't many kills or a lot of gore, suspense becomes an important factor, but with the villains, especially Ivan, overplaying their roles to almost comical extents, some of tension is drained away. For a cast with mostly limited experience, the acting is passable, although often cartoonish when the writing gets heavy handed. The ending is quite grim, with the food supply for the winter apparently in good shape, but the hero makes some dumb decisions that contribute to his fate. The themes found here will be familiar to fans of the backwoods terror genre, but the snowy winter setting may make for an interesting change of scenery.

The DVD has an informative making of featurette, and credit is certainly earned by the cast and crew for braving the elements in making the film. John Geddes and Jesse Cook provide an informative and intelligent commentary track. The DVD is not subtitled.