Develiker
terrible... so disappointed.
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Libramedi
Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Stephan Hammond
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Nigel P
A group of students on a detention 'break': all twenty-somethings, suitably attractive and perfectly manicured. A nice-guy teacher, probably late-twenty-something, casually perfect. They're travelling to a remote field, allegedly haunted, to dismantle the great scarecrow there and have it returned to the local town in time for a festival. Kristen (Lacey Chabert), whose parents own the land, turns up - stunning and immaculate also, her job is to fish uncertainly for compliments beneath dough-eyes, from teacher Aaron (Robert Dunne) who, it turns out, is her ex. Her current boyfriend also turns up. Guess what? He's a lovely looking lad as well. All characters are equipped with the usual put-downs and quick prom-wit and, as written and played, are as blandly perfect, or as perfectly bland, as can be. All set? Alright then, let the loud noises and 'weird happenings' instantly reduce them into shrieking quiverers.From this point, all previous patchy personalities, such as they are, are done away with and the group become as one: victims waiting to happen. Only ginger outcast Cal (Iain Belcher) retains his given nervous personality, which gets him a girl, if only for a short time. There are moments in between the crashes and panicking where some of the (alleged) teens get close to 'making out' with each other, but good grief - between the horror non-events and the scriptwriters' take on 'burgeoning relationships' and scratchy voiced profundity, this is a film that refuses to affect me in any way whatsoever.I shouldn't perhaps be so grumpy: this is not for me, but it does seem to be a genre. 'Teen-slasher' will rarely go out of fashion, because it has rarely been in fashion. It has long since existed though, on the peripheries, secondary to its memorable Freddies and Jasons, feeding the spaces and silences on a first date, and not meant to be concentrated upon too much. Some listings mistakenly have 'Scarecrow's running time at 197 minutes, which would be truly terrifying. At its true length of 87 minutes, it provides nothing much, doesn't really offend, and contains a fairly reasonable CGI scarecrow but not a lot in terms of actual shivers. The main man Aaron presents limited displays of shock and resourcefulness, making sure the pearly whites are on display.
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki
This movie should have been called "Black CGI Glob Of Smoke", or "Burnt Halloween Spider Decoration", because that's what looks like attacks this group of so-called high schoolers cleaning up a farmhouse on a Saturday detention. The farm, we find out in a convenient explanatory scene, which raises as many questions as it answers, has a curse on it, and this CG scarecrow is determined to kill everybody that sets foot on the property. The set designs have a certain degree of mood and atmosphere, the acting is tolerable, but the film has a huge void where the killer scarecrow is, or should be, and its death scene is contrived, unsatisfying, and takes place off-camera. If they had a real actor in the role of the scarecrow, instead of third rate CGI, the movie might have had a bit more tension and suspense, but even then, it would still be formulaic and predictable. I've always found scarecrows to be creepy, but rarely are they this boring. I kept thinking that it might just simply blow away in a strong gust of wind.
Theo Robertson
Two horny teenagers go in to a barn for some you know what . The horny female falls from a ladder which causes a deep cut and this causes a scarecrow to come to life and embark on a purge against horny teenagersStop laughing because that premise is exactly as I described it . As you might expect it's yet another teenagers in peril from a violent blood thirsty monster where sex equates with being killed by the said blood thirsty monster " Hey Theo I think I might have seen this type of movie before . Tell me what's different about it " Not much except it's got a killer scarecrow in it . I did think perhaps it was going to totally rip off JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 but lets face it plagiarising a film by Victor Salva isn't a good marketing ploy so the film does go its own way slightly even though it remains painfully generic . The eponymous Scarecrow itself is very scary looking and the director tries to make use of sound effects but it fails to gain an extra mark due to being too obviously CGI created In summary SCARECROW only appeals to horror junkies
Blackspecter
For this genre the movie is really good. It has a good cast, and as some have mentioned earlier, the female cast get no complains from me. I agree with other reviews that the CGI are quite good, and you can't really complain on acting in this kind of film it's not why you watch them. There are only a few things I got hung up on. One, the monster don't have any resemblance to a scarecrow. Two, there is not a shred of explanation to the story what so ever. If they had mad any kind of attempt to explain why there was a monster and why it did what it did, I would give it a higher rating. Sadly there is none. But besides that it well worth watching.