Review of Summer Scars (2007) by Matthew O — 23 Feb 2010
Six fourteen year old kids skip school to play in the woods, but some hot rodding on a stolen moped changes the fate of their day.
The latest popular horror film genre which has exploited youth terror, is nicely flipped on its head in this film from a bunch of tear aways causing terror and mayhem in a wood to a young couple in the way of the bigger budget 'Eden Lake', to the adults getting their own back, with terror inflicted on themselves, in the manner of a drifter actor Kevin Howarth, in 'Summer Scars'.
Summer Scars has been tipped as a mixture of 'Stand by Me' and 'Eden Lake' and although not up to those to films standards, it is an easy comparison. The film is low key and generally not that thrilling.
The film does though have good performances from its leads and doesn't out stay its welcome with a running time just under and hour and twenty minutes.
This review of Summer Scars (2007) was written by Matthew O on 23 Feb 2010.
Summer Scars has generally received mixed reviews.
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