Scarecrows
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Movie Reviews of Scarecrows
Movie Review: Totally Creepy! Excellenty 80's Horror Flick
Summary: 5 Stars
I rate "Scarecrows" an A movie compared to that peice of S*** Scarecrow in which I rated a C for Crap!! Also, you can't please every one especially those 1 star rate reviewers who wouldn't know a excellent horror movie if it came up and shoved a Pitchfork up there ASSES!!!Movie Review: it rules!
Summary: 5 Stars
creepy, weird, and awesome. even if you don't automatically love scarecrows and scarecrow movies, how can you not love this beautifully haunted 80's relic?
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Movie Review: BUY THIS DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
finally this film is getting released. Such a great horror film. Pick it up for Halloween and have a great time watching it.Movie Review: Scary, Creepy, Old-Fashioned 80's Horror At Its Best
Summary: 4 Stars
"Scarecrows" is one of those movies that I've heard about for years, and heard rave reviews for. Ever since I first heard about it back in the early 1990's, I've wanted to see it for myself. Unfortunately, it was such a rare and forgotten 80's horror flick that it was nearly impossible to find--except for unbelievably crappy-quality bootleg VHS tapes.
Now, though, it has been finally been remastered and released uncut on DVD! Once I heard it was coming back out, I was excited to finally be able to see it. And how did it rate next to over a decade of hype and desperation? It was, in a word: excellent.
The story is simple: a group of paramilitary robbers who've hijacked a plane and held a pilot and his teenage daughter hostage are forced to land in an isolated, creepy farm when one of their members betrays them and bails with the money. The thieves/soldiers and their hostages soon find themselves stalked on the abandoned farm by a group of evil, murderous living scarecrows. As creepy paranormal events begin to plague them, they must try to find a way to escape the farm and the murderous clutches of the monstrous scarecrows.
With a cast of non-stars and a limited budget, director William Wesley was able to create a spooky, frightening little movie that was unjustly forgotten in the wake of other gruesome genre fare. Sadly, he didn't go on to do much else. I could definitely have seen him become a John Carpenter/Wes Craven-type horror filmmaker. Anyway, with this film, Wesley is able to conjure a bone-chilling atmosphere of darkness and gloom (due to the whole film taking place at night). The story is simple and straight-forward--borrowing elements from slasher films, zombie movies, and robbery/heist action flicks, and combining them into a creepy, old-fashioned horror movie. The cast of unknowns is a bit amateurish at times, but reliable enough to create likable characters and generate some sympathy. The make-up and gore effects are pretty gruesome and unnerving, and the evil scarecrows themselves rank among the creepiest movie monsters to appear out of the horror genre. Complimented by a chilling music score, "Scarecrows" definitely hits all the marks needed for a spooky, serious horror flick. It's also notable that there's a sense of mystery surrounding the supernatural events and the nature of the killer scarecrows, which is hinted at, but never fully explained. The grim, downbeat ending is also a plus.
The only really disappointing thing about "Scarecrows" is the complete lack of extras on the DVD. Other than that slight misstep, I can't really say much bad about "Scarecrows". While it's not groundbreaking like "Halloween", "The Exorcist", or "Night of the Living Dead", it is an eerie little gem of a film, and it's great to finally have it on DVD. With a supremely spooky atmosphere, scary monsters, gruesome murder effects, and a tight, suspenseful storyline, it's definitely a must-see/must-own for horror film fans. Highly recommended!
Movie Review: Scarecrows is "stuffed" with great cinematography and special effects and "leafs" you with an eerie feeling.
Summary: 4 Stars
Cinematographer Peter Deming not far out of high school and already shot Evil Dead II one year prior to Scarecrows and now part of the Spectral Motion team (The Gravedancers, Blade: Trinity, Hellboy) and makeup artist Norman Cabrera do such an effective job that if you muted Scarecrows and just watched it would be scarier. However then you'd miss such classic lines as "I must have been possessed by demonic demons."
Deming does a great job making the atmosphere eerie with the use of shadowy images and spooky photography.
Cabrera made simple but effective monsters out of the scarecrows. In Fangoria's October issue Cabrera said director William Wesley asked him to {basically come up with something really scary and kept referencing John Carpenter's Halloween in the sense that the mask is simple but very frightening stating its much scarier for a creature to have a very simple face because you don't know what it's thinking} and Cabrera did just that.
The plot isn't so much to write about compared to the two strong points mentioned above. A group of marine commandos commit a robbery on base and manage to get away hijacking a plane with a hostage pilot and his attractive daughter. This happens instantly and soon after one of them gets greedy and takes the money and parachutes out of the plane into a field with freaky scarecrows everywhere on crosses and a eerie house that would feel right at home on Elm St or better yet the house in the Blair Witch Project.
The other soldiers parachute in and pursue him and when they find him they give him a sever beating which would kill most but doesn't effect him. He seems to have superhuman strength, something happened to him in that field before they found him. Eventually he is beheaded and the soldiers find that he has been gutted and is stuffed with the money in place of his organs.
I thought this was going to be one of those so bad it's good 80's horror films after being the cult pick in Film Comment this month and a special retrospective section in Fangoria as well but Scarecrows delivers scares and sticks with you later that night in the dark.
The acting is pretty bad and the lines are corny but the atmosphere and special effects far make up for that also pay attention towards the end when one of the soldiers who is losing it sends everyone out of the freaky house so he can wait for his friend to come back and come back he does even though we and he saw him be killed, great make up on that part. Also saving some of the ridiculousness is a great concept and realization of one of the troops who says what if we didn't make it out of that robbery with all those bullets coming at us, maybe this is hell, if you were in hell would you know it?