scarceScarce begins right off with a man running through the winter woods naked and covered in blood.  Who among us hasn’t run through the winter woods naked and covered in blood?  But that’s a story for another time.  Suffice it to say, naked man is really the lucky one- he dies early and doesn’t have to watch this piece of crap.

Three friends on a snowboarding trip in Colorado are traveling back home to New Jersey and get sidetracked by a winter snowstorm in Pennsylvania.  They stop at roadside greasy spoon diner to eat food that sucks and then ask for directions back to the interstate.  They, naturally, receive bad directions and crash their car on a snowy, deserted, back road.

The guy with the broken leg stays in the car while the other two go for help.  They meet a creepy man in a cabin in the woods who agrees to help them.  They discover their friend is gone; creepy hick suggests a nice local stopped to help him.  The two travelers, in a moment of clear brilliance, decide to stay the night with creepy hick who agrees to take them to the good Samaritan’s house to find their friend.  Once the blizzard blows over, of course.


We all know where this is going.  The backwoods rednecks are cannibals, and the only way this movie would be good is if the opening credits came alive and ate the rest of the movie that followed them.

From start to finish, this movie is bad.  It’s not funny during the attempts at humor.  It is funny at times when watching these people trying to act, but that delight quickly dies and it becomes nothing more than sad and sadder.  This is a gore film for gore hounds, with no redeeming qualities this side of eternity.  I give it half a point for the bad acting.

Gore and torture may be the new porn when it comes to horror, but you have to really be hard up for Scarce to get you off.

0.5 out of 5
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