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Thursday, 9 March 2017
Scarecrow (1988)
'I fired at the thing, and it just kept coming, bullets don't stop it!'
Directed byWilliam Wesley
Starring: Ted Vernon, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn and Victoria Christian
Released: 28th September 1988
Budget: $425,000
In Scarecrow five bank robbers are trying to escape law enforcement. How? By taking hostage a pilot and his daughter and forcing them to fly South. One of the robbers decides to parachute unexpectedly out of the plane taking the loot with him. His assailants don't take kindly to this and stop the plane.
In the dead of night the lone fugitive searches for his loot and plans to escape. All the while the others taunt him over the radio on what they're gonna do if they get their hands on him. As bad as these seems there is a strange farmhouse surrounded by unsettling scarecrows nearby.
Unsettling turns to cold dread when the scarecrows, cursed and bound to their fates for eternity by the demonic house, begin murdering the trespassers. Now the crew must make it back to the plane before they become victims to the Scarecrows.
This film isn't the best. I'm going to be blunt with you right now. However it is highly enjoyable, and I recommend it to anyone looking for a good scarecrow movie. This film has the usual over-the-top gore you would expect from the time. Low budget yet satisfying to watch.
Seeing the differently conflicted characters work together to overcome this threat adds a bit of filling to an already simple plot. Filmed in Florida and the cinematography done by the same person who did Hellraiser and Evil Dead 2Peter Deming. It was first released on VHS, the on DVD in 2007 then Blu-Ray in 2015.
This is one of those films not many people have seen, yet would tell you to watch if you were given the chance. Go watch it.
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