Scarecrows
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Movie Reviews of Scarecrows
Movie Review: We Sure As Heck Ain't In Oz Anymore
Summary: 2 Stars
Gory, unpleasant and downright nasty, but on the downside the whole film feels like it's missing something, this could have been a ripsnorter of a horror film but it's just too lacklustre to pull it off.
Night Of The Scarecrow (1995) was a better effort I thought, I wish that was out on DVD.
The 2 stars are for the gore and spooky settings.
Movie Review: bored
Summary: 2 Stars
not as good as i remembered,poor acting not eough goin on.AS A SLASHER FLICK,THERES NOTHING LIKE THE BURNING/AND MANIAC!Movie Review: 0 STARS: Very disappointing given the high reviews.
Summary: 1 Stars
"Scarecrows" is about some bank robbers who hijack a plane operated by a father and his daughter. One of the hijackers does something rather rash, and the plane is forced to land. The hijackers land in a very interesting area that is certainly more than the crooks bargained for. If this sounds interesting, I hope you like it, but I hated it for several reasons.
First of all, the acting in this movie is pathetic, and this causes the action of the movie to come off as rather generic and artificial. The story itself is unique, but the execution of the movie is absolutely awful. I really thought the supernatural element was portrayed very poorly in this movie, and I did not find the scarecrows or anything at all about this movie to be scary. Not sure why anyone would call this movie atmospheric because there was no atmosphere, certainly nothing that could overcome the wooden acting in this film, lifeless script and the boring dialogue.
The characters are not very likeable at all, partly because they are criminals, but even the criminals are not very convincing in their roles. Everything seemed monotonous to me, and the characters were lifeless in their execution of the script. There is some blood and gore in this movie if you like that kind of thing, but I was largely unimpressed with that aspect as well.
I was not sleepy when I turned the movie on as I was actually quite excited given the glowing reviews this movie has received. However, my excitement was short-lived and I spent the majority of the movie yawning and, quite frankly, I could not wait for the movie to be over. Simply put, this is one boring film. Just because "Scarecrows" is a little bit different does not mean it is any good, and it sure as hell does not mean it is scary or horrifying in any way, and that is certainly the case here. Unfortunately for me, I purchased this garbage. I would recommend you not do the same unless you like mindless low-budget type zombie movies with no spirit at all.
In short, "Scarecrows" is a very poor excuse for a horror movie. If you want to see a good movie about scarecrows that is on the creepy side, I would recommend "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" instead, and while it is by no means a classic, it is miles ahead of this trash. Then again, that's just my opinion, obviously, as it appears that I am in the minority on this one.
Movie Review: About as dull as it gets...
Summary: 1 Stars
This would mark the first instance in which I feel Amazon reviews have lead me badly astray. I think it would be worth mentioning that horror films are my thing, I've seen a LOT of them, good ones and bad ones. Scarecrows?...Sorry to be the one to rock the boat here, but it is not one of the good ones. Not by a long shot.
I purchased Scarecrows a while back, I'm writing a review now because it literally took me four attempts to get through the whole film. Do not believe these other reviews calling it "atmospheric" or "creepy", this movie is the equivelent of watching paint dry. Here we have the tale of some burglars who have hijacked a plane flown by a man and his daughter. One of the robbers grabs a bag of cash and jumps out of the plane, landing in a rural cornfield where the scarecrows dwell. When they land the plane to hunt him down, the burglars eventually fall victims to the murderous scarecrows in the fields.
Shot completely at night time, the entire film has the exact same look, bar a few moments where an annoying green tinted film lens comes in for the plane scenes. There is a complete lack of any likable characters as they are all mostly foul-mouthed criminals, and their deaths are nothing too get excited over anyway when something finally does happen. Towards the end when one of the criminals supposedly loses his mind in one of the most unconvincing displays I've ever seen on film, I was about to just turn it off. However I stuck it out in hopes of a decent ending, which not surprisingly was left unfulfilled.
Films with terrible acting, lame storylines, and terrible effects can certainly have their charm, (See the Italian zombie film genre). Scarecrows demonstrates all of these attributes, only it makes the fatal mistake of attempting to take itself seriously. By doing so, it eliminates any chance to be viewed as campy fun, and categorizes itself right into the ineffective and forgettable column. There is in fact a reason it wasn't a high priority to be released on DVD. Overall I don't know about this movie, I cannot even begin to imagine what the appeal of this is. I say leave this one in the obscurity it resided in.
Movie Review: Paging the Wicked Witch of the West
Summary: 1 Stars
YOU: one of a scurvy a bunch of hairy ex-military thugs armed to the teeth with bad breath, small arms, & attitude!
THE SITUATION: You and your fun-loving thugs have pulled off a heist at a military base, wasting half the grunts there and completely rendering impossible any hope of the Army meeting its recruiting goals!
SKYMILES DON'T COUNT IN HELL: Now you're flying the unfriendly skies in a cargo plane bound for south of the Mexican border. One not-so-loyal thug decides to bail, literally, over barren countryside, taking the moolah with him. You follow, planning to give the fella a quick dirt knap and then take to the skies.
THE HORROR, THE HORROR! Killer scarecrows show up and wreak Unholy Jihad on you and yours! They are ultimate scarecrow tough hombres! They are Bringers of Death in burlap & straw! They are not to be trifled with! You've crossed their uh, straw-ey, line of death! They are gonna throw down on you! They are gonna force your crew to take a big dirt knap! In the DIRT!
WHAT DO YOU DO? WHATEVER WILL YOU DO? If you've watched "Wizard of Oz" at least once, you already know the answer, but I'm gonna derive it for ya anyway: 1) scarecrows are stuffed full of straw; 2) straw burns 3) anybody got a lighter? Or a match?
Nobody does. Not one of the mercs ever smoke 'em if you got 'em. You'd think these guys would have some napalm, or chordite, or some matches, but no. So the Killer Scarecrows hunt everyone down & ruin everybody's tazoola. In the dullest, slowest possible way. The End.
Some defenders of this wretched palsied turdallito pinata defend it on the grounds that it is "atmospheric" & "creepy". That might be true, in that "Scarecrows" is atmospheric & creepy in the same way that a nursing home full of 80-somethings drooling & taking dumps on themselves is atmospheric & creepy.
If forced to watch this, do what the protagonists ought to have done: douse yourself with gasoline & light a match.
JSG*