I saw this Film at a Festival in Austria and still some images are hunting me. It is a low budget Movie about a Serialkiller in Prague but most of the time you don't even realise that the production didn't had a million Dollar Budget, it is filmed that good. The start is a little bit slow paced and I dind't like the beginning with the swat team but after the first 20 minutes we get to dive deeper and deeper into the mind of a Serialkiller which I havent seen in such a diabolic way in years. The Lead Actor portays this Character with a seemingly natural introverted side and then in killing mode switches to this dark killing force in such a believable way, which to me was often scary and blew my mind. I haven´t seen a Film before with any of the actors, so far no names to me but this Marc Engel is really the heart and soul of this dark film. The cinematography is excellent and Scars of Xavier has a moody fitting score. Some of the kills are pretty gory but somehow stylish, strange and new. The Story isn't new but what the director did with it somehow is. I'm not going to spoil anything but the ending is maybe one of the best MF endings I´ve seen in years. I can't wait until the Film comes out on DVD so I can watch it again. I highly recommend this thriller, portay of a Serialkiller "drama" whatever the Director wanted it to be? It is all of it and more and to any fan of Dexter or Hannibal a must see. Although Xavier felt more real than those Serialkiller takes .
Review of Scars of Xavier
