Scarecrow (2013 TV Movie) User Reviews

Saw much better, saw worse

[deloudelouvain · 3/10 · 8 March 2015]

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.

"Just because it's stopped doesn't mean it's gone"

[hwg1957-102-265704 · 4/10 · 9 February 2020]

A supernatural scarecrow kills some people. This is a painfully generic film. It thinks loud noises and loud music and obvious jump scares make for tension and terror but it doesn't. The use of cliche runs through out. Monster dead? No. Monster dead? No. Leave me! No I won't. Leave me! No I won't. Etc. And as usual the characters act in ways that nobody real would. The characters were all one note and not likeable so one didn't mind them being bumped off, if one could tell them apart anyway. The script had not an original idea.

The cinematography is sometimes good and the CGI monster is quite effective but apart from that this was a chore to watch.

Good "monster" concept". So-so movie.

[Patient444 · 4/10 · 12 December 2013]

Got to say it first: I enjoyed this Scarecrow look! At first I was thinking that it is indeed original, by far, afterwards, maybe a little dumb, but after hearing the explanation in the plot, of how it got that way, yeah, hands down to this concept! I approve!

So, Scarecrow 2013: a very nice and enjoyable movie, of course you must NOT expect too much, just some innocent fun, some almost scares, the most standard horror moves, "let's split off", "let's do that", "I can't believe it is real", and so on. But overall, better than those tryhard movies, that get lost in their own work. I approve to this one, for a cheesy cliché horror night!

Really, not much to say about it, either you love it, or not. But if you do lower your expectations, and just sit, watch, eat popcorn and make fun, you might be in for exactly what you have hoped for. Fun fun fun!

Mildly Entertaining

[davidm-14 · 6 October 2013]

A group of well-deserving teens (who look way too old, but that's nothing new) spend some quality detention time running through corn and hiding in a haunted farmhouse & legendary site of several murders. The legend isn't apparently a myth, and they pay for their trespassing. It's been done before, and definitely better, but not a bad Sy-Fy offering. Nice and Halloween-y, starring that guy who I finally recognized from "Sanctuary" about halfway through.

Random thoughts - Very good to see Lacy Chabert again. Why doesn't she do more? Why is there a ripe field of corn planted on what's supposed to be long-deserted land?

Everything felt done before

[kernanj-53-367542 · 2/10 · 16 July 2014]

Everything in this movie felt like it had been done before, with no effort to add anything original, but I guess that is how it is with low budget direct to TV horror movies. The farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, thinking they've killed the monster, and retreating to another house get help. This movie was not even remotely scary because everything was recycled. Another recycle was someone suggesting sacrificing a victim to the monster to try and get it to stop, but instead a bighearted person steps up to try and save the others. I don't see how this thing was a scarecrow. Almost no gore which was kind of a good thing because it would have made the movie even more cheesy. Mildly entertaining though, because you can almost predict everything that will happen, and want to see if you're right. 2/10 because of this

Full of Straw

[loomis78-815-989034 · 3/10 · 17 March 2015]

School teacher Aaron Harris (Dunne) is in charge of detention, so he sentences his group of six high school students to clean up a friend's (Chabert) family farm which has a urban legend attached to it. A massacre at the farm years earlier has it haunted by an evil spirit which takes up residence in the field's scarecrow. Before you can pick an ear of corn this digital scarecrow is attacking our hapless group and killing them off in the farm and the adjoining cornfield. This Syfy movie starts off decently enough and then crumbles under lousy digital effects and a script that doesn't have much to offer. Rick Suvalle's script is light on character development so we don't really get to know any of them so when they're in danger we are disconnected as an audience. Even the back-story of the legend of the farm and the origin of the killer scarecrow are left without explanation. The production value is fine but the CGI scarecrow just doesn't supply any chills to speak of. A few practical effects and a decent amount of bloodshed help a little bit, but in the end it's a pretty lifeless entry into the killer Scarecrow sub-genre.

Didn't Scare Me

[Theo Robertson · 3/10 · 4 February 2014]

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 teenagers

Stop 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

He stands in the cornfield waiting to seek revenge.

[michaelRokeefe · 5/10 · 16 March 2017]

Sheldon Wilson directs this scare fest for Syfy Pictures about an old scarecrow that stands in an abandoned cornfield and will be the focus of a Scarecrow Festival that has run for over a hundred years. A group of teens seek out a deadly scarecrow on the eve of the fall harvest festival. The urban legend claims "it never sleeps, never dies and lives to kill". The blood lusting scarecrow wants to seek revenge on the descendants of its original captor. But actually, anyone will do to turn the corn rows into a bloody graveyard. The legend needs nurturing. The story line sounds familiar and predictable until things go "willy-nilly" in the night. Actually a lot of fun.

The cast features: Lacey Chabert, Robin Dunne, Nicole Munoz, Richard Harmon, Lanie McAuley, Reilly Dolman and Julia Maxwell.

Mediocre rural horror

[Stevieboy666 · 5/10 · 29 May 2019]

Canadian TV movie about a bunch of high school kids helping out on a farm as a detention for their bad behaviour, only to become victims of a demonic, indestructible scarecrow. As a horror movie it is quite well paced, packing in an adequate amount of kills, gore and scares throughout its 83 minutes. As a scarecrow movie the creature looks more like something from the depths of the Abyss rather than from the middle of a corn field. Plus it is CGI, something that I am not a fan of. Acting is reasonable, though there are several unlikable characters and some of the actors are obviously older than the parts they are playing. As already mentioned there is a fair amount of gore but I felt that its UK 18 rating to be a little harsh. I picked this up cheap on DVD, I won't watch it again but felt that I got my monies worth.There are much better scarecrow movies out there.

One of the better SyFy Channel movies in a long time...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 3 November 2013]

I find it kind of odd that people are overly negative about this movie. Sure, it is a SyFy Channel original movie, so you shouldn't get your hopes up in the likes of major blockbuster multi-million dollar glamorous Hollywood productions. But every now and again SyFy Channel does manage to hit a Homerus - and they did so with "Scarecrow".

The story is about a town that celebrates the 100th annual scarecrow festival, and apparently there is a grim tale about an animated scarecrow on a local farm. This turns out to be true, as a group of people come face to face with a grotesque and murderous entity.

Storywise, then "Scarecrow" was actually enjoyable, it had just the right amount of fun and thrills, though it wasn't a particular scary movie, unless you are easily scared, of course. But still, the story proved to be entertaining and well enough thought through.

As for the acting, well people were doing good jobs with their given roles and it was fun to see Lacey Chabert in a movie such as this. She did carry the movie well.

The effects in "Scarecrow" were actually quite good. Sure, this wasn't a CGI galore such as those over the top Hollywood productions, but the effects proved effective to what they were supposed to do. The scarecrow was nicely animated and had some great details, and it didn't actually look fake at any one point throughout the movie.

If you enjoy a good monster flick, that doesn't necessarily require much thinking from the audience side, then "Scarecrow" is a good choice. "Scarecrow" managed to squeeze a 6 out of 10 stars rating out of me.

Low budget creature horror but in a good way

[mobileschwerti · 5/10 · 7 June 2022]

It might not be on the same level as bigger productions of the same genre. But thanks to it's consistent and equal quality in all aspects of the movie, it manages to not be as terrible as some other low budget movies. If you're having a day where you don't mind investing 90 minutes of your life and you're in the mood for a nice, easy, horror flick then I can recommend it. The VFX was actually much better than expected and elevated this movie visually which made every scene with the scarecrow in it quite enjoyable. The creature itself is quite scary and the way it manifest hasn't been done like that before so it felt fresh and interesting. 5 out of 10 for me.

"Scarecrow" delivers

[Wuchakk · 8/10 · 2 November 2013]

Released to Syfy during Halloween, 2013, "Scarecrow" chronicles events at a supposedly haunted farm where a school detention group goes to do some work. A scary-looking creature appears and starts picking them off one-by-one.

There are some similarities to the hallowed "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) in that the group takes refuge in a farm house but, unlike that film, they don't spend the entire story there. The creature pursues them to other environments.

Why do I rate "Scarecrow" as high as I do? For one, the filmmakers and actors take the material seriously and so the film never devolves into parody or camp. As such, the viewer is able to take it seriously. Secondly, the CGI monster is excellent. It's scary-looking and changes shape constantly while remaining the same basic appearance.

Thirdly, the film features a quality cast of women. There are no less than FIVE, all stunning or near-stunning in their own unique way, starting with the blond (Lanie McAuley) in the teaser. From there we get four petite brunettes, beginning with the curvaceous delinquent played by Julia Maxwell, whose role is way too brief, followed by Nicole Muñoz, Lacey Chabert and Brittney Wilson. Lacey emerges as the film's protagonist while Brittney becomes the quasi-antagonist. Lastly, the Vancouver-area locations are effective for this type of film, particularly the superlative "ship graveyard" in the final act.

The film runs 86 minutes.

GRADE: B+/A-

CRITICS' QUESTIONS ANSWERED (***SPOILER ALERT***)

If the farm is abandoned who planted all the corn? Kristen obviously rented out the land to the neighboring farmer in order to pay the property taxes. Why is the nerd in detention to start with? Because nerdy misfits sometimes get detention too. Why does the creature show five claws/fingers? Because it has five claws/fingers. Why does the scarecrow monster look more like a burnt-to-crisp spider than a scarecrow? Because it's not a scarecrow, but rather some kind of demonic creature; the locals simply dubbed it the "Scarecrow" a hundred years earlier and the name stuck.

Why are the bales of hay conveniently placed like steps? Obviously to make it convenient to climb to the second story door of the barn. Why does the cop car start and not the truck? Because there was nothing wrong with it; the owner of the old truck, however, said that it had a problem overheating. Why did the driver of the cop car swerve when the thing appeared on the road and not run it over? It was a split second decision and the sudden appearance of the creature shocked him; besides, it's clear that running the monster over wouldn't have harmed it.

Why does the ex-boyfriend bravely roll under the vehicle and set it on fire with the creature there with him? He was already mortally wounded and, since he was going to die anyway, he wanted to (try to) take the monster out with his brave final act. Why is the girl ground-up by the farm machine and not the scarecrow? It was repeatedly stated throughout the movie that the creature couldn't die; or, at least, people didn't THINK it could die. Besides, the creature obviously doesn't have a concrete physical form and is probably more spiritual than physical in nature; thus the machine couldn't harm it.

What are the limitations of the creature, as far as time of day when it appears or how far it can travel from the farm? It's obviously some kind of territorial demon attached to the farm & the town and seeks out the Miller family as prey, plus anyone that gets in the way; it's never disclosed how far it can travel from the farm or town, but the ship graveyard didn't seem too distant, maybe 5-7 miles. How did the ship explode without a spark? She broke the line by the tank and then made sparks with the ax, which caught the gasoline (or whatever) on the floor on fire, which spread to the tank within a minute or so and thus the ship blew.

Seasonal Fun for TV Movie Horror

[sirdyke · 6/10 · 5 October 2013]

This was typical fare of something evil lurks and teenagers are on the menu. But with realistic gore and terror scenes, frightened actors and creepy settings, it's at least an enjoyable seasonal movie for Halloween, (it was aired on the Sy-Fy channel in October) and for TV movie horror fans alike. Mild enough to air on TV, it is fairly safe for younger teens and pre-teens, but engaging enough for the adults to watch, too. The monster was interesting yet vaguely familiar (think Jeepers Creepers) and yet kept me intrigued for the entirety of the story. Some twists and turns helped move the story along, despite the predictable characters and storyline. Overall, not bad. Not wonderful, but not bad.

Neither terrible or great, falls into the not bad category

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 20 October 2013]

While Scarecrow is left wanting somewhat, for SyFy it really isn't so bad. There are some good things. Scarecrow is one of SyFy's better-looking recent movies, the scenery is good and atmosphere and it is slickly shot. The quality of the scarecrow design is not bad at all, in fact apart from some too-smooth movements, which for SyFy is saying a good deal. The score does have some eeriness, and the beginning sets things up nicely. The acting is better than average also, Lacey Chabert and Robin Dunne fare the best and they are good. The direction is of the kind is that is never inept or adept, competent is the best word though it could have been with more crispness and character in the latter part of the movie. There are failings in Scarecrow though. The biggest failing is that it doesn't convey its horror elements very well. There are some moments in the first half, but much of it suffers from being too been-there-done-that quality, from not knowing when to end, from having a lack of build-up or suspense and that the fear and danger levels are quite low. The story is refreshingly simple to begin with and starts promisingly, sadly it is also the kind of story that later on becomes too simple and runs out of ideas too early. There is also too much down-time and exposition, coupled with the lack of scares there are too many of tediousness. The dialogue could have done with being tighter, and with less of an over-serious and simplistic approach. The exposition scenes are particularly bad in this regard. And while the scarecrow is good in look, it also doesn't have much of a personality and is severely under-utilised. In conclusion, not bad, could have been worse but it's nothing particularly great either. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Great production & some chills....but plot holes galore

[skyme · 5/10 · 8 October 2013]

THE GOOD: This is a great-looking film. The cool creepy farm house, vast fields of corn, the huge strange barn, & the unexpected ending. Great lighting & moody, alluring photography - most of the shots look great.

You might think that the kids will be stuck in the farm house for the whole film, but they aren't, which helps keep the film moving and unpredictable in a sense.

The acting isn't too bad, although Sheldon Wilson's direction of the acting can fail (like Aaron oddly laying in the bathroom after an attack, when he would have gotten up more quickly). Robin Dunne "Aaron" is good here & a solid actor, too, but the writing for his character was always way serious and one-note.

Britteny Wilson ("Beth")'s character takes an unexpected turn, and the boiling Wilson is by far the most interesting, intense performer who BLOWS AWAY the more seasoned Lacey Chabert.

A few gory shots can be intense, like the discovery of the first girl's death - little kids should not watch this. Some of the creepy scenes between victims and the scarecrow are scary. And it should be noted that if you get to hear this through a home theater in surround sound, the swirling audio sounds pretty awesome.

THE BAD: The guy from the first young couple said that his friends come to the property's barn lots of times -and he knew right where to go...and the scarecrow never killed his buddies? The terrorized kids could have departed in Kristin's car (unless I missed something). Why didn't the scarecrow kill others during the prior Halloween party events held on the property?

The scarecrow's CGI is...well, it's inventive, supernatural and creepy to a degree, but its movements are so smooth, that it often looks computer generated. For the record, parts of the scarecrow interaction looked real. One wonders that instead, if the scarecrow had been played by a human in costume, if it would have felt more threatening and nightmarish with more realistic interaction.

Participants exclaim that to kill the scarecrow, it must be buried. Two problems: 1) the scarecrow repeatedly attacks coming up from under the ground, defeating that theory. 2) by the end it doesn't get buried. Some of the reviews said the film was a little like "Jeepers Creepers" and that is kind of true. "Scarecrow" could have been better, but isn't a total loss. It's obvious this film was a lot of work and they try to keep the action fairly constant.

Clarification to reviewer "SanteeFats" Why does the cop car work and not the truck? The guy ("Eddie" I think) arrived with the truck barely running, and said that the truck constantly overheats.

The film generally looks terrific with a strong production, but don't expect an air-tight plot, & it could have used more levity in places. As some of the other IMDb.com user reviews note, some people might like the film, and some might not.

Much more frustrating than scary

[monocreatives · 3/10 · 13 March 2014]

If all horror clichés were made into a movie, this would be it. The movie was very predictable. The characters lacked common sense and thinking capacity that would've saved their lives.

*possible spoilers*

One thing I never really understood was how the group got up a pit using a rope hanging from a splinter. I can't even comprehend how the splinter managed to support 5 people to get out.

Additionally, the movie's deliberate attempt to shock by reducing the group's large number is saddening. The pointless attempt to 'sacrifice' animals to save them is more of a weak idea than an aha moment.

Speaking of aha moments, the characters only started thinking of ideas to stall the creature very late in the movie.

Most of them also died because of being led by their emotions rather than using their wit.

I do find the concept of the legend a bit creative, the actors were good and the CGI is admirable.

Where's the scarecrow?

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 2/10 · 30 May 2015]

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.

No Science-fiction, Plenty of Stupidity

[in1984 · 2/10 · 22 December 2013]

1.9 of 10. For a film that originates on a channel called "SyFy", there's not even science fiction in this massively dumb story. The characters and acting don't help.

Some "horror" films at least provide some soft-core sex to fill in gaps, but no luck in this PG horror for kiddies nonsense. I can only imagine children who still take the Grinch, Santa, and ghosts of Christmas past seriously could enjoy a Halloween story so flimsy.

There are some good copycat video and audio FX in this. Hopefully the people responsible for them will be put to better use with more competent writers, directors, and actors.

Another Scarecrow without a brain....

[FlashCallahan · 3/10 · 7 March 2017]

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...

Not bad for a modern SyFy channel movie

[SusieSalmonLikeTheFish · 7/10 · 8 February 2015]

'Scarecrow' has its flaws and its moments; it certainly beats some of the SyFy channel's other movies like "Dark Storm" and "Mongolian Death Worm" but it's cheesy and the characters are shallow. The plot follows a group of teens (who all look to be in their Twenties), who go to a day-long detention repairing a farmhouse right before the town's annual Scarecrow Festival. The main troublemakers seem to be Tyler and Nikki (Nikki is called a Goth but definitely doesn't look the part and is more of a sneaky brat than anything else). Anyway, as the plot goes on, an evil entity called The Scarecrow is disturbed and begins going on a killing rampage, taking any person or animal in the vicinity.

The soundtrack wasn't bad, the acting wasn't the best but was better than the usual SyFy casts, and I've gotta say, the effects were pretty good! I was expecting really bad CGI and there was some, but a lot of the effects looked great in the movie. I wish there hadn't been so much sex jokes and that type of thing, crude humor has never appealed to me or made me interested in a horror movie, but it's easy to overlook since it seems to go away once Tyler and Nikki have "bought the farm".

All in all, Scarecrow wasn't great, but it was much better than I was expecting. It's worth checking out for a fun Halloween movie with your friends or just to pass the time on a Saturday night. And if you don't like it, at least you can make fun of it.

Not for me ...

[parry_na · 4/10 · 21 June 2018]

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.

Not too bad

[SanteeFats · 6/10 · 7 October 2013]

Okay a group of detention high school students take a bus to an abandoned farm to disassemble a supposedly historic scarecrow for reassembly in town. The first question I have is if the farm is abandoned who planted all the corn? There is the nerd, why is he in detention to start with? You have the bad guy and his slut, the cool ones I guess. Lacy Chabert shows up as the last remaining owner of the farm. Those who get drug through the corn rows show show parallel scares on their faces but there are only two each. Why, the creature shows five claws/fingers? The teacher starts to go for the ex-boyfriends truck but the nerd, trying to be a hero I guess gets there, he is killed by the thing that looks more like a burnt to a crisp spider than a scarecrow. The kids start dieing one by one which is not a bad thing with most of those that are portrayed. Thin the gene pool. When they run to the barn I noticed that the bales of hay are very conveniently placed as steps. The CGI of the entity reminds me a lot of the shots in the Mummy when it is trying to reconstitute itself. When everyone that is still alive escapes in the working cop car (why does it work and not the truck?) Driving out why did the driver swerve when the thing appeared in the rod? Run over the damn thing. The ex-boyfriend is on brave sucker when he rolls under the vehicle and sets it on fire with the creature there with him. So now there are four left, gee who dies next? The old farmer fills in some background on what the thing is and whats going on to some extent. When he separates himself from the others thinking he will be safer he is wrong. Now there are three, they come across a farm machine that I am not familiar with. They get it fired up and drag the creature and Beth into it. It grinds it up but is it dead? Nah, of course not. The last surviving student is left to watch the area and gets chomped by the not dead monster. This creature seems to have no limitations as to time of day or how far it can go from the farm, not typical for this type of film. Usually there seems to be restrictions on the bad guys movements or when they are active. Going berserk after Erin is killed, lacy grabs the fire axe she had dropped, runs down stairs, traps the creature in a derelict ship and sets on fire to blow up. Where the spark came from for the explosion I missed. Watchable but not one I would keep.

More generic horror fluff starring Chabert's cleavage

[texasboyy · 1/10 · 4 May 2019]

If you're a fan of Lacey Chabert's cleavage (and who isn't?), you may enjoy this though we could have used a lot more of the cleavage (or preferably her bare breasts, though even that wouldn't have helped this flop). For everyone else, skip it. It's just more run-of-the-mill, no budget generic, all-the-same, SyFy UNoriginal garbage. Another mixed, though not diverse, group of "teens" in their late 20s get mixed up with a supernatural entity in a barn in the woods. R-rated but barely.

Better Than I Expected

[Michael_Elliott · 13 October 2013]

Scarecrow (2013)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Better than average SyFy flick about three adults and six teens who travel to an abandoned farmhouse to tear down a scarecrow so that it can be used in a town event. Before long there's a scarecrow killing them off one by one. You know, scarecrows can be rather creepy and we've gotten several horror films about them but most have been rather unsuccessful with the exception being DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW. I really wasn't expecting too much from this film but it actually delivered as long as you don't take it too serious and don't expect any scares. I thought the story itself from writer Rick Suvalle was pretty good as it seems he has a knowledge of the genre and knows how to milk certain scenes. One fine example of this is the opening sequence with a couple teens sneaking into a barn for some sex but you know what happens. I really liked how the story took place at this farmhouse and barn and I think the film only really started to suffer when they moved off these locations. The performances were actually better than you'd expect for this type of film with Lacey Chabert, Julia Maxwell, Nicole Munoz and Richard Harmon all doing fine work. The scarecrow itself is a CGI creation and it's certainly not as horrid as I was expecting. If you watch these SyFy movies then you know the monsters are usually horrid looking but I thought for the most part that this one looked okay. The scarecrow in the field that we see early on is much more effective though. The blood/violence level isn't all that high but we get a couple nice scenes. SCARECROW eventually runs out of gas around the hour mark and gets slowed down but fans of the sub-genre should find enough here to enjoy.

lesser TV horror

[SnoopyStyle · 4/10 · 21 February 2017]

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.