It's been years since last we heard anything about the Angela Bettis flick Scar 3D, but lo and behold you'll be getting a chance to finally see the movie a lot sooner than you think. This Friday to be exact!
From the Press Release
Berry Meyerowitz, President & CEO of Phase 4 Films, announced today the landmark launch of director Jed Weintrob’s 3D horror film, Scar, the first ever stereoscopic, 3D, video-on-demand film release via all major cable broadcasters on Friday, October 1, 2010. The 3D film will be available to consumers who own 3D HDTV sets and liquid crystal shutter glasses. Phase 4 will also offer a traditional 2D version of Scar on VOD on the same day.
Scar is the horrific tale of a small town urban legend that becomes a modern day nightmare. Years ago, Joan Burrows became a victim of Ernie Bishop, a crazed undertaker with a penchant for...
From the Press Release
Berry Meyerowitz, President & CEO of Phase 4 Films, announced today the landmark launch of director Jed Weintrob’s 3D horror film, Scar, the first ever stereoscopic, 3D, video-on-demand film release via all major cable broadcasters on Friday, October 1, 2010. The 3D film will be available to consumers who own 3D HDTV sets and liquid crystal shutter glasses. Phase 4 will also offer a traditional 2D version of Scar on VOD on the same day.
Scar is the horrific tale of a small town urban legend that becomes a modern day nightmare. Years ago, Joan Burrows became a victim of Ernie Bishop, a crazed undertaker with a penchant for...
- 9/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
PARK CITY, Utah -- Robert Downey Jr. is featured as a vodka-drinking Hollywoodite who's out on bail in "Hugo Pool", which, as you may have guessed, is not a serious life-meets-art opus but, rather, a loony comedy directed by his father, Robert Downey Sr.
Unfortunately, the film is extremely erratic, even though writer-director Downey Sr.'s off-center sensibilities register some high-laugh moments. Premiered Tuesday night at the Sundance Film Festival, a charitable description is that this will emerge as a cult film, but not in the same high category as such previous Downey works as "Putney Swope".
You'd have to go back to the grand aesthetic tradition of Cheech & Chong to find a film with a similar narrative thinness; indeed, the film's sensibility seems to come from that grassy time. With its garish costumes and characters incapacitated by either addictions or physical illness, it's also somewhat akin to a long-lost work of Peter Sellers when he was in one of his more fuddled states of inspiration.
Narratively, the film centers around Hugo (Alyssa Milano), a disenchanted pool cleaner who abstains from drugs and sex but compensates by adorning her body with tattoos. She's been eking out an existence tending to a demanding clientele with little family or professional support. Her dad (Malcolm McDowell) is a dottering druggie, and her mom (Cathy Moriarty) is a chronic gambler. Nevertheless, Hugo is so overwhelmed with her work that she enlists her parents to help out, sending Dad off to the Col
series of encounters with Hugo's demented clientele, including the aforesaid Hollywoodite out on bail, as well as a megalomaniac (Richard Lewis) who demands after-hours satisfaction. With a new character every minute or two, things become distressingly tedious as Downey inundates us with goon show-type characterizations.
Eventually, a soft theme enters as Hugo falls in love with one of her clients, a young man (Patrick Dempsey) hopelessly stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. This is when the film is at its best, partly because of Dempsey's inspired performance as the young man tied to a medical machine. Unfortunately, Downey swamps this tenderness with enough suds, including a prolonged and swoony windup, that one loses sight of the film's undersurface kindness.
There are inspired moments among the players. Kudos to McDowell for his vigorously off-the-wall performance as a latent druggie and to Downey Jr. for his frantically inspired histrionics. On the technical side, composer Danilo Perez's silly sounds hit all the right notes.
HUGO POOL
Nomadic Pictures
A Downey/Ligeti production
Producer Barbara Ligeti
Screenwriter-director Robert Downey Sr.
Executive producer Douglas Berquist,
Mike Frislev, Chad Oakes
Director of photography Joseph Montgomery
Editor Joe D'Augustine
Music Danilo Perez
Color/stereo
Cast:
Floyd Gondoli Patrick Dempsey
Franz Mazur Robert Downey Jr.
Chick Chicalini Richard Lewis
Henry Dugay Malcolm McDowell
Hugo Dugay Alyssa Milano
Minerva Cathy Moriarty
Hitchhiking stranger Sean Penn
Running time -- 93 minutes...
Unfortunately, the film is extremely erratic, even though writer-director Downey Sr.'s off-center sensibilities register some high-laugh moments. Premiered Tuesday night at the Sundance Film Festival, a charitable description is that this will emerge as a cult film, but not in the same high category as such previous Downey works as "Putney Swope".
You'd have to go back to the grand aesthetic tradition of Cheech & Chong to find a film with a similar narrative thinness; indeed, the film's sensibility seems to come from that grassy time. With its garish costumes and characters incapacitated by either addictions or physical illness, it's also somewhat akin to a long-lost work of Peter Sellers when he was in one of his more fuddled states of inspiration.
Narratively, the film centers around Hugo (Alyssa Milano), a disenchanted pool cleaner who abstains from drugs and sex but compensates by adorning her body with tattoos. She's been eking out an existence tending to a demanding clientele with little family or professional support. Her dad (Malcolm McDowell) is a dottering druggie, and her mom (Cathy Moriarty) is a chronic gambler. Nevertheless, Hugo is so overwhelmed with her work that she enlists her parents to help out, sending Dad off to the Col
series of encounters with Hugo's demented clientele, including the aforesaid Hollywoodite out on bail, as well as a megalomaniac (Richard Lewis) who demands after-hours satisfaction. With a new character every minute or two, things become distressingly tedious as Downey inundates us with goon show-type characterizations.
Eventually, a soft theme enters as Hugo falls in love with one of her clients, a young man (Patrick Dempsey) hopelessly stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. This is when the film is at its best, partly because of Dempsey's inspired performance as the young man tied to a medical machine. Unfortunately, Downey swamps this tenderness with enough suds, including a prolonged and swoony windup, that one loses sight of the film's undersurface kindness.
There are inspired moments among the players. Kudos to McDowell for his vigorously off-the-wall performance as a latent druggie and to Downey Jr. for his frantically inspired histrionics. On the technical side, composer Danilo Perez's silly sounds hit all the right notes.
HUGO POOL
Nomadic Pictures
A Downey/Ligeti production
Producer Barbara Ligeti
Screenwriter-director Robert Downey Sr.
Executive producer Douglas Berquist,
Mike Frislev, Chad Oakes
Director of photography Joseph Montgomery
Editor Joe D'Augustine
Music Danilo Perez
Color/stereo
Cast:
Floyd Gondoli Patrick Dempsey
Franz Mazur Robert Downey Jr.
Chick Chicalini Richard Lewis
Henry Dugay Malcolm McDowell
Hugo Dugay Alyssa Milano
Minerva Cathy Moriarty
Hitchhiking stranger Sean Penn
Running time -- 93 minutes...
- 1/23/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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