Curse of the Scarecrow

Not good and the director himself has reviewed this and gave it 10 😂

He bigs up his actresses which is admirable and the acting in this is fine given the shoddy script.

Film looks good, maybe just get some other people to work on it and give it some polish.

Good luck on your futures, just need some more staff, some budget and second/third lookovers

The start of the story was quite promising. I watched it for 50 minutes hoping it would improve. It certainly did not. The only person who deserves any credit for acting is the main character June, played by Kate Lister. The other two main actresses should be working at the checkout at Asda at best. Their performances were absolutely awful. As for the story line, I will give give you an example of how bad it was. 'All the lights in the house suddenly go off, while one of them is sitting in the bedroom. Next thing you know a torch appears in her hand as if by magic'. Truly pathetic story writing that a 7 year old could produce. Good luck if you choose to watch it. Hope you do not waste as much time on as I did.

A problem with feeding on so much fictional horror content - as I do - is that often you can have a sense of déjà vu. This happened with 'Curse of the Scarecrow' - about half way through, I wondered if I had seen it before and had forgotten. The film I was actually thinking of was 2019's 'Tooth Fairy', which in turn had reminded me strongly of 2018's 'Scarecrow Rising'. They had all been directed by Louisa Warren, often using many of the same players and locations.

Warren, like Andrew Jones, has proven to be a prolific director (and occasionally actor) of micro-budget horror films. Also like Jones, she seems to have liking for dolls and scarecrows as villainous beings. Once more we have a predominantly female cast menaced by a bloke with a sack on his head. The three main women are flawed - in fact, apart from June (Kate Lister), quite hapless. The peripheral male characters are wetter than wet.

The production is afflicted as low-budget films often are, and none of this would matter at all if the story or characters were in any way interesting. Sadly, despite some competent performances, they are not, and the dullness that hits you after the pre-credit sequence begins is never fully shaken off. If we could care more for the characters, and not have their various plights and tragedies overtly hurled at us, then things would be a lot more successful. As it is, Warren's films have thus far been interesting without being compelling (of the ones I have seen).

There are a few good scenes. Nancy (Warren) being stuffed with straw is my favourite. With less restraint on blood and gore, it would have been even more effective. The ending is satisfying and seems to be setting things up for a possible sequel. My score is 5 out of 10.

Will watch any horror movie new and old and expect acting to be of the era It was made!!! This is a relatively new movie so the acting should have been of a good standard at least but my 6 and 11 year old could have done a better job wow!!! If the acting had been done better this might have actually been a good film.

There's been quite a few scarecrow movies over the years. This one is not one of the good ones. I can't say that I liked it at all. 2/10