Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
GarnettTeenage
The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
FlashCallahan
With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, teacher Aaron Harris is giving out punishment for six students serving detention.Their task is to help Aaron's ex-girlfriend Kristen fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend that never sleeps, never dies, can't be stopped, and hear their cries. When the students play a terrifying game of cat and mouse in the cornfield with what they think is a wild animal, Kristen tries to convince them that the Scarecrow is very real, and rejuvenated by the blood of its prey.......Apart from the not too bad CG of the titular creature, this is nothing more than a cheap knock off of Jeepers Creepers one and two.We have the obligatory biggish name actress in the form of 'megastar' Lacey Chabert, and the bloke who was in the straight to DVD sequels to Cruel Intentions, and The Skulls. We are talking high profile here...Add you stereotypical bunch of high school students, and you have a recipe for a film that sounds good on paper, but the finished product is just a waste of time for everyone involved.All of the cast try to do their best with the poor script, and the reasoning behind the shape shifting of the Scarecrow is never fully explained. So we get nothing more than silly kids running around into dark places, thinking they can kill something supernatural by stabbing and shooting it. Have they never seen a low budget horror film before?Of course they haven't, They are in a horror film, which is meta.And meta rhymes with better, which the writers must do next time...
SnoopyStyle
It's the 100th annual Scarecrow Festival. Marcy and Chad go into a barn to set up revenge against Nicki and Tyler but they are set upon by a mysterious creature. Nicki and Tyler have been put in detention for posting pictures of Marcy and Chad. Aaron Harris is the teacher in charge. Maris is a first-timer. Beth is the new girl. Calvin is the shy artist. Along with Daevon, the group is brought out to a farm to dismantle and bring back the original festival scarecrow. Kristen Mills (Lacey Chabert) comes out to meet her ex Aaron. She has also invited his friend-turned-enemy Eddie to make peace. The group is attacked by the creature.The detention premise is unlikely. There are plenty of unrealistic actions from the characters. The first half takes place in the daylight which devalues its horror values. The CGI creature is passable considering its TV use. The problem is that the daylight relegates it to a fake CGI creation. Even the night time has the harsh artificial lighting. The actors are all perfectly fine. The only known actor is Chabert and her biggest asset continues to be her chest. The movie never rises above being a cheaper TV horror.
Trevor Dewey
This is an almost good horror flick: with good cinematography, good actors (Lacey Chabert is quite good throughout) and a well-done CGI Scarecrow.The problem is the plot.First, the movie doesn't properly setup the history of the monster and it doesn't setup the initial monster-meet on Kristen's (Lacey Chabert) old family farm. As mentioned by others, why is there corn growing on a supposedly abandoned farm? But these errors could be forgiven if the rest of the plot held up. It doesn't.In the first half of the movie, various teens do stupid things (wander off alone) and promptly get killed, fair enough - that's the standard trope for this type of movie. In the second half of the movie, the remaining teens, adults do smart things (run fast and far together) and promptly get killed, which is ridiculous.It's a shame because there's a decent horror movie in there somewhere, just needed a script rewrite or two.
The Couchpotatoes
I didn't expect much of this movie and I was right about it. There is not much to say about this movie. I thought the actors were mediocre at best. The story could have been good if the movie wasn't so predictable. You have the typical high school bad students on detention. They are all like 25 years old and you wonder why they can not find younger actors to play them. Then you get the typical scenes like the car that doesn't start anymore, the girl that falls over all the time trying to escape, the girl that wants to offer another girl as sacrifice so she can escape herself etc... The only good thing about the movie was the scarecrow itself. I thought he looked pretty good. It would have been better if they had given us some background story. I will forget everything about this movie in a week.
