Scarecrows follows four stoner teenagers who, while on a hike to find a secret lagoon, are kidnapped by a psychotic farmer and turned into scarecrows.
Starring: Hannah Gordon, Mike Taylor, Umed Amin, and Maaor Ziv
Directed by: Stu Stone
Written by: Stu Stone and Adam Rodness
Scarecrows have always been a great scare tactic in horror movies. There’s nothing like looking at that figure in the middle of the field, and wondering if it will move or not. Usually in horror movies they do move, and move in the direction of the soon to be victims. In “Scarecrows,” there are some mean looking scarecrows, but there’s something different about them this time around.
Four teenagers are on a road trip to find a lagoon of all things. In their eyes, this is a special lagoon, and they can’t wait to rip off their clothes and jump in. Before that happens, the audience is treated to a funny scene when a crow drops a present on their car. The guys don’t want their girlfriends to see what’s happened, so they hurry them off to search for this lagoon. This gives the audience a chance to learn a little about these crazy teens as danger lurks in the nearby fields.
After all the fun skinny dipping, they go back to the car, but it’s gone. They search for help, but find nothing but trouble. They end up in a corn field with some creepy scarecrows. No these scarecrows aren’t going to be chasing any of the teens this time. The creative trick to this story is that the victims are the scarecrows.
So if the crows aren’t the bad guys then who is? Well Devon (Maaor Ziv) and Ely (Umed Amin) are the first to find out when they get taken by the Farmer (Jason J. Thomas). Yea, it just has to be the Farmer if it’s not the crows. The Farmer has his reasons for what he’s doing, and it may make the audience think twice about him as a bad guy.
Or maybe not after they see what he does to Devon. It’s probably the most brutal scene of the movie. Then again he does hammer away at another teen! The Farmer means business, and has no room for mercy. Some scarecrows need to be made, and nothing is going to stop him, which means a very satisfying ending!
It’s always great when filmmakers find a new way of presenting something very familiar to horror fans. “Scarecrows” does just that by changing the scarecrow from being the killer to being the victims. It manages to still bring out the fear that scarecrows usual do, but in a different way. Also, it presents a new motivated, silent killer in the Farmer. It's not all perfect, as the film's reliance on the teens to carry it midway through might have been too much for them. However, the teens got everything they wanted before the Farmer decorates his field, so there's no feeling sorry for them. With that, I give it 3 pools of blood, and hope to see more of the Farmer one day!
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