Rent Scarecrow (2013)

2.4 of 5 from 58 ratings
3h 17min
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Synopsis:
For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, school teacher Aaron Harris is doling out punishment for six students serving detention, including the moody Tyler, Goth girl Nikki, wrestling team captain Daevon, and straight-A student Maria. Their task: help their friend Kristens family farm with some grunt work before its sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend—and Tyler takes macabre delight in recounting the tale: It never sleeps, it never dies, it cant be stopped, hear their cries. The Scarecrow lives to kill us all. Keep it buriea in the fall...
When the kids play a terrifying game of cat and mouse in the cornfield with what they believe is a wild animal, Kristen tries to convince them that the Scarecrow is a very real creature of fierce strength and power, rejuvenated by the blood of its prey - and proof comes all too soon. As darkness falls over the rustling fields, the last survivors must fend off the flesh - ripping terrors of the Scarecrow. As Autumn falls across the land, there's a palpable chill in air that can freeze the blood. Scarecrow is coming.
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Directors:
Producers:
Jamie Goehring
Writers:
Rick Suvalle
Studio:
Three Wolves Ltd
Genres:
Horror
Countries:
Canada
BBFC:
Release Date:
28/04/2014
Run Time:
197 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour

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Spoilers follow ... - Scarecrow review by NP

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21/06/2018

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.

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