AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

qmtv I like to watch low budget films because I'm done with big budget spoon fed candy films. Shure the big budget films have better actors, sometimes decent stories, competent cinematography and editing, decent music, spectacular cgi and sets, etc. Whatever it takes not to offend most viewers. But these films are boring. They're all the same. Nothing special. Non original stories. Quick edits. Always some dumb battle scene at the end. And the movie is over. What we have with the Scarecrow is apparent in the beginning with the credits. It starts with some decent visuals, and the credits are shown. This was well done. However, it goes on for like 10 minutes! Then we see the lead character. The actor is clearly in his late 20 and he's supposed to be a high schooler, maybe if he was left back 10 times. This guy is walking around slumping, and carrying his books clutched to his chest, like some girls do. This is clearly bad direction. I don't care if it was written like that. This director sucks. This "kid" is bullied by everyone, his classmates, his teacher calls him white trash, his mother is an alcoholic bum who sleeps around, and her new drunk boyfriend also berates him. The only person that treats this "kid" kindly is one girl, who happens to be the sheriff's daughter. The kid sees this girl kissing some boy. The kid can't believe why he's a loser. Goes back to his trailer home, only to find his mother getting it from the back side. While this is going on, the kid gets into a verbal fight with his mother's boyfriend, WHILE THE BOYFRIEND IS POUNDING HIS MOTHER! Now, if the film makers were making a full on comedy, then we have something here. But no, it is only a comedy here and there. So the Boyfriend chases the kid into a cornfield and strangles him to death, then makes it look like he hung himself. The kid's drunken bum mother is complicit. Ok, so the kid then possesses a scarecrow, and the scarecrow starts killing people. What we are presented with is a scarecrow with gymnastics ability, and some dumb ass one liners as he kills. Maybe if the producers hired some comedians to help with the writing, this film could have been a decent killer/comedy. No, what we have is cheap kills, cheap one liners. Garbage acting. Garbage dialogue. The music is filler, pretty much garbage. I liked the ending music with the credits. There was one scene that was pretty good. Not great, but good. Two boys find a dead guy mutilated by the scarecrow in the cornfield, and the cops show up. One of the cops try to comfort the kids because he doesn't want them to be traumatized. The kids turn around and say that's the best thing we have ever seen. The cop turns away as if to puke. This was good. Not great. So, entertainment value is pretty low here. I do not recommend watching this. It is not so bad it's good. There's nothing here for anyone. Also, the director, apparently to show his love for Dario Argento, dedicated this garbage movie to him. What a joke. Argento is garbage. He is no director. He is a promoter. His film Suspiria is one of the worst films ever made. His films Plumage and Four Flies are also garbage.

Scott LeBrun This movie is what it is: direct to video low budget horror comedy. It doesn't pretend to be anything more, and is so gleefully, utterly stupid that if you are like me and can appreciate that sort of thing, you will find some entertainment in watching it. It's basically an amalgam of "Carrie" and 'Dark Night of the Scarecrow' in a "Children of the Corn" type setting. It's told in flashback by a young guy determined to give his buds a good scare. The back story is that Lester Dwervick (Tim Young) was a high school oddball treated like crap by almost everybody in the world, including jerky jocks, a slutty mother, and a bitchy teacher. Poor Lester has to watch while the girl he likes, Judy (scream queen Tiffany Shepis, who's easy to watch as always) kisses another guy and then when his mom is getting it doggy style from a local lowlife. Said lowlife then pursues Lester and strangles him to death while a scarecrow watches. Before too long Lester has been reincarnated inside the scarecrow and proceeds to go about administering violent vengeance. And this is all done while cracking jokes in Freddy Krueger fashion. I *told* you this got pretty stupid. But it's a fun and engaging sort of stupid, hard to resist for this fan of B horror. It's definitely got its moments, such as a deputy getting weak kneed at the sight of a victim while the boys who found the body profess to be more intrigued than anything. The scarecrow (played by Todd Rex, also the scarecrow designer and stunt coordinator) does come up with some gut busting dumb lines, while much of the acting is *exactly* as bad as people would expect. That said, it's still very amusing bad acting. (If there's one thing this movie is not, it's boring.) Now, it could have used some nudity to spice it up a bit more, and the kills would have benefited from showing more detail, but overall this is enjoyable stuff with a refreshingly short running time. Even so, the movie does feel padded at times and does have a rather slow end credit crawl. The bottom line is, if one can tolerate blatantly humorous genre junk, they can have a good time watching this. Seven out of 10.

noddyjames This film is an interesting take on the killer scarecrow genre - amazingly it manages to rise to become greater than the sum of its parts. Average montage scenes, 30-somethings playing teenagers, and some excellent facial expressions combine to become one of the "new-wave" of modern classics. As a viewer, I came away from the film with the same sense of "shock and awe" as when I first saw The Godfather in 1969. Tiffany Gardner's startling portrayal of the morally bankrupt Judy was deserving of her Grammy nomination, which was well documentedly stolen by Ricky Martin and restless hips. Unfortunately, the none of the sequels could live up to the expectation of the original (unlike the Godfather series which got better with each installment, and should culminate in 2012 with Godfather 4: Eat My Rage.

Zazabar Let's face it; some lame kid who dies and has his soul transfered into a scarecrow. Das no gonna happen neva! OMFG This stupid loser kid who can't stand up for himself gets his ass handed to him by some drunk bastard screwing his mom. Right as he dies, he looks up at the scarecrow and he let's his spirit go into the scarecrow. The drunk guy covered up his death by making it seem suicidal and thought he had gotten away with it. We later see he is tossed out of the trailer and later earns another encounter with the scarecrow. They had a brief encounter which includes the drunk calling him a loser and the scarecrow rebounding with "Takes one to know one, loser!" The scarecrow flips off the building, calls him "daddy-o", and then beheads the poor man. We can see how this awesome movie unfolds from that. He goes on to kill many people, afterward. He mainly kills the people who gave him a hard time in rl and goes off to kill some random ass people, just for some laughs. No laughing here. He adds a punchline to every kill, too. Every time he killed someone, he would do some karate flips and finish it all off with one of his signature punchlines. In the case of someone who was hard of hearing, he would say "Here, have an EAR of corn!" then shove it up their ass. OR we can actually take an example from the movie! He just got done killing a cop and was on his way to killing the only person who ever stood up for him. Her father, the sheriff, yelled to the madman to stop, and he said "Hey, stay awhile!" and threw a dagger threw his chest and stuck him onto some tree. In the end of the movie, he killed two guys and threw in the punchline "Gotta split!" and killed two guys by shoving a scythe into their heads. Wowzors, this movie made me want to cream my pants so bad. Maybe next time this guy makes a movie, it won't be gay.