Scorned (2014)

On this website, "Scorned" is listed under the tripartite heading of comedy-crime-horror. The best match is the horror genre. There is also a seemingly endless spate of crimes committed. But the comedy portion of the film is difficult to discern even at the darkest level of dark comedy.The film's title derives from the scorn felt by a woman named Sadie who learns that her boyfriend, Kevin, is sleeping with her best friend, Jennifer. Sadie improvises a ghoulish revenge scheme on both her boyfriend and her best friend. When Jennifer arrives at the home of Kevin and Sadie, she is invited to "follow the rose petals,' along with her little dog named Bootsie. Little does Jennifer realize what lies ahead along the road strewn with the petals.The actress playing Sadie creates a character worthy of her namesake, the infamous Marquis de Sade. But the main problem with the film was the excessive violence in Sadie's sadistic acts of torture. It was far too gruesome to extract teeth, place a hand in a vice, and use electric shock on the eyes of her victims. It is odd that the filmmakers would not rein in the long string of acts of revenge. After a while, this film became nauseating, due to the violence. The defining moment of "Scorn" occurs when an hardened criminal escapes from the local prison and is walking in the vicinity of the home of Sadie while she is torturing her victims. In the film credits, the convict is known only as "Scary Guy." While hitchhiking, the man is picked up by Sadie. At that moment, the viewer has great sympathy for one of the characters who is unaware of a portending doom. And the character for whom we feel sorry is the Scary Guy.

This little Misery update (2 victims instead of 1) could have been better done.Firstly launching straight into the misery stage wasn't right. It would have been better to build things up from the normal then show how things disintegrate. Instead there is too much of the "torture" and it loses impact after a while.What's more shocking than all the "torture" is what happened to Billy Zane. Why did he let himself go like Val Kilmer? Annalynne McCord does as well as she could have with this material. The friend looked a bit bored.There is a little twist at the end but it feels a bit lame. Overall it feels a bit tiresome and not worth the effort.

****SPOILERS**** A movie about brutal ravage as well as manipulation by this psycho Sadie, AnnaLynne McCord,whom her cheating boyfriend Kevin played by Billy Zane, sporting a Marlon Brando like " Apocalypse Now" style haircut, whom she discovers through his twitter account is planning to dump her for her best friend Jennifer, Viva Bianca. Not being that wrapped tight to begin with, Sadie spent the last 10 years in mental hospital for drowning her kid sister, Sadie now plans to get even with Kevin & Jennifer in the most brutal and sadistic way imaginable! With Kevin inviting Sadie to spend the night with him at his country estate, he seems to be very well taken care of financially, he then plans to lays the news on her about leaving her for Jennifer as smoothly as possible.Not knowing what Sadie knows and plans for him as well as his new found girlfriend, Sadie's best friend, Jennifer Kevin is taken by complete surprise in getting stoned and finding himself tied up in bed and totally helpless. Things get really hot when Jennifer shows up thinking she'll leave for Europe with that gorgeous hunk of a man, all 280 pounds of him, Kevin who also ends up being held hostage and tortured by Sadie. It' s then that things get real hairy with Sadie literally putting the screws on the two lovebirds and getting a real kick out of it.***SPOILERS*** As vicious and brutal as Sadie is she's also extremely lucky as well. During the entire movie no one excepts her victims has a clue to what she's up to and what she's doing. She escapes by the skin of her teeth in being caught by the police when stopped by them to see if she's harboring an escaped lunatic, Doug Drucker, a battered & bloody Jennifer whom Sadie though that she already murdered suddenly pops out of the bushes to tell them what she did to her and Kevin! It's then on cue a truck come out of the darkness and runs her down and crushes her to death before she can open her mouth! As for Kevin he gets his while trying to hobble to safety, after Sadie busted his ankle, in his motor boat only to get killed in a life and death struggle with Sadie by its propellers! Making as if she's the victim in her being kidnapped and raped by the escaped lunatic Drucker, whom she also murdered, Sadie gets a clean bill of health from the clueless police! And as we later see at the end of the movie, after recovering from her wounds, she's back in business again!

I've never seen AnnaLynne McCord in anything before, I watched this film because Billy Zane was in it and he was solid in Dead Calm and Titanic.The beginning put me off because of the unannounced text messages that were confusing for a second. The plot is tired and inconsistent, the scenes totally unbelievable and the content is clichéd and cheesy: scorned girlfriend tortures and kills her boyfriend for cheating on her with her best friend.However right from the moment she comes on screen AnnaLynne McCord rocks this movie all by herself. Viva Bianca is typical B movie stuff, Billy Zane is absolutely appalling barely even scraping B actor status in this, but McCord is A rated throughout, in every scene,despite having awful dialogue and poor direction in scenes.She makes this movie totally hers and outclasses everyone else, and the score on this review is really for her alone. I recommend this movie simply for those who enjoy great acting, but only for McCord.