Scarecrow's Revenge

In 804 AD men did not have wrist watch tan lines and clothing labels flopping about the neck of their Pier One tunics. Also, chrome hadn't been invented yet much less wired telephone poles. Don't even get me started on the cars you can see through the trees and the constant thrum of traffic just yards away.

Living on a remote plain, a group of Vikings finds the heathen among them trying to stir up trouble with their clan and decide to expel him in a trapped scarecrow as punishment, but when he makes a deal with a witch to continue his killing inside the scarecrow they must find a way to stop him.

This was an overall serviceable if flawed feature overall. Among its better qualities is the central setup that provides a fine excuse for everything within here to take place. Not only quickly establishing the way of life within the village as the group hunts down the disgraced member of the village attempting to rape and pillage the chief's daughter but setting him out on a trek to seek vengeance with the banishment taking place leading to the group going through the process of removing him from their community, this gets a lot out rather quickly. Detailing the need for revenge against them for their rightful attack on the outside member of the group by taking on the form of a cursed scarecrow that haunts the village, this all gives everything the kind of simplistic formula to work with as a means of getting the rampage started. That is the other fun point here in that there's some fun to be had with the idea of the killer scarecrow going around knocking off the villagers in the woods. After the ceremony to transform his soul into the scarecrow and become the killing machine at the heart of the film, this turns into a plotless yet endearing series of encounters with the villagers being knocked off by the creature in some decent enough setpieces. Whether it be the regular villagers in the woods wandering around or the weapons-filled combat with the Viking fighters that are being taken down in some fun moments allowing the scarecrow the chance to utilize some fun ambushes around the forested parts of the woods leading to the final confrontation which employs a great touch about fulfilling destiny and the bounds of witchcraft to finally defeat him. These all manage to bring about some likable features in here although there are some big issues keeping this one down. The main detriment to this one is the excessive running time that manages to go longer than it needs to with egregious inserts and additional moments that it doesn't need. With extra scenes during the stalking scenes showing victims standing around waiting for the killer to strike them, useless moments wandering around for nothing to happen, or an especially useless sequence where a person stands around for twenty seconds with the killer standing behind them doing nothing only for the killer to still miss, it all leads to an immensely obvious running time that could've been trimmed down. On top of that, it's way too cheap and flimsy for its good, with obvious anachronistic tendencies, lousy choreography, low-key effects-work, and general production vibes that give away its origins pretty easily, being the main factors that brought this down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

I can forgive having vikings with accents from multiple countries. I can even forgive the countless historical inaccuracies. I don't even mind that all the swords had round ends. But I can't forgive the terrible writing, acting and action. The fight scenes were the worst I have ever seen. I also can't overlook that they couldn't even come close to matching the color of blood. Did I mention at one point you can see an airplane trail in the sky? The costumes and dialogue were so inaccurate that I would have never even guessed that they were vikings. Luckily, they mention that they are vikings every 30 seconds. And they are not savages. I gave it 2 stars because sadly, I have seen worse. I definitely wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

A couple points for the concept, which appeals to my cheesy B-movie loving heart. On paper, it sounds great: vikings VS scarecrows! What's not to love? Mixing genres and giving slasher movies a new setting could've been a real plus.

One extra point for the witch lady, whose "acting" makes her seem like she could really use an exorcism.

Otherwise, this is pretty dull, with an elongated and frankly boring opening stalk-a-thon that evaporated my hopes for this being any fun right away.

What were have here is a movie that looks like a bunch of friends were trying to find uses for their ren faire costumes, but also happened to have a scarecrow getup lying around that they didn't want to go to waste.

The result is a movie about a group of unconvincing "vikings" being picked off slasher-style by a shambling scarecrow. Kinda makes you wonder how these guys managed to do any conquering when a really slow dude in rags can take out them out so easily, but hey.

Nowhere near as amusing as the silly premise made me hope.

First off I gave it 1-Star, come IMDb start putting minus stars on these things. I read in one review where it was watch for 10 mins, REALLY DUDE! Ten while minutes to know this is bad, Let me tell you what I found bad about Scarecrow's Revenge ... EVERY DAMN THING! The actors must have worn the casting couch out to get money to make this garbage.

What's with film makers who keep using the old tired events in movies, like a person is being chased by a killer, a creature, bad guys, they run 20 feet and fall down and look behind them as if waiting on their close up, and trotting through a scene is not running. Gawd if you fall while being chase, your dumb ass need to be killed. Or in most movies someone suffers with Asthma, Gawd when will it ever stop, this is just a couple of rants about movies and the lame morons and nimrod in Hollywood who keep rehashing old tired scenes in movies. As for this one ... IT'S BAD FROM START TO FINISH! They couldn't even figure out how to hang a Scarecrow from a cross post in a cornfield. He or it was standing on the ground with his arm(s) draped over the post. Just sad.

Come on IMDb, adjust your ratings to include negative ratings, One Star isn't low enough for this turkey, and I apologize to all the turkeys, I may has insulted by the comparison.