Amityville Scarecrow

Unwatchable.....total garbage. Just another stupid made for TV terrible movie. Acting is the worst possible. I was hoping the scarecrow would end up killing all those whining idiot women. Avoid this trash at all costs. Not even worth a 1 rating.

What can I say?

Geography may not be my best subject, but I thought Long Island was in the states, not across the pond.

The cover art was nice. The acting was meh.

I have seen better, scarier movies on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

This was a bad, glorified Lifetime Network movie with all the back and forth drama between the characters. And this is not a dig on Lifetime, I have seen much better movies on that channel.

The only thing I liked the most about this movie is when the end credits rolled.

AMITYVILLE SCARECROW is one of those ulta-cheap British indie horrors that seem to be doing the rounds these days, and of course it has nothing to do with the perennial American film franchise that's turned up a few gems along the way. So another cheap cash-in, in other words. This one's about a family doing up an old cornfield but finding themselves haunted by a scarecrow that goes around butchering people off-screen. It's dire stuff indeed, too dark, too plodding, badly acted and written by someone who has no idea how real-life people really communicate. As a horror film, it's a complete failure. Par for the course, in other words...

I like low budget movies, they bring out creativity, usually. This film has some cool aspects. Location, night time lighting, camera work all good. However, the writing is horribile to the point it derails the film. A nonsence storyline, who is who, what the hell are they doing in England and so on.

Ok. 2 sisters inherit some land in England that once was summer camp. Oh, the Amityville house ( once on this property ) burned down and now the land is cursed? OMG! The sisters are from the US, their daughters have accents, a female cop who shows up has no accent, serious?

The writing is horribile, the Director bad, the sound mixing done by someone not sober possibily. The acting gets a free pass since the script was void of common sence.

I guess movies like this seep out as no one will speak up and offer constructive criticism.

How could someone preview this and think it makes sence?

Remember that girl in highschool who thought she could sing? She sucked but no one would stop her from embarrasing herself. Yup thats what you have here.

Arriving at a remote summer camp, a family hoping to reconcile over the loss of their mother by taking over the camp for themselves are soon inundated by the belief that a killer scarecrow is responsible for a slew of disappearances in the area which is proved true forcing them to work together to stop it.

Overall, this was a pretty solid and fun genre effort. One of the biggest factors here is the strong setup that's featured throughout here that brings together several rather fun storylines for a rather fine starting point. Working well with the distanced sisters who are trying to repair their relationship after a slew of past trauma and issues between them that held up the reconciliation before getting them back together trying to sell the property, this is a fine way to set the first half in motion by creating a solid conflict between them that gets them together at the location to start their healing. This goes along nicely with the secondary setup of the sisters discovering the history of the location involving the haunted house that provided the series of strange accidents and deaths that follow it while they try to figure out how to help their parents get back together that shows how the two stories at play work together. That allows for a decent series of confrontations and encounters with the main scarecrow once it gets up and moving. With a fine opening sequence that involves the creature taking out the couple arriving at the campground, the later scenes are quite fun with the reanimation sequence featuring the creature coming to life after numerous amounts of ridicule before to deal out some rather fun stalking around the campground and surrounding locations. This goes along with the later encounters where the series of ambushes by the creature lead to a solid series of deaths and action here which never really rises above the decent but keeps everything at a frantic enough pace to provide simply decent kills and an intriguing look to the killer that are enough to hold this one up. There are some issues featured here which bring it down. The main factor to be had with this is the utterly sluggish and glacial pacing that spends way too much time on the various storylines rather than dealing out the scarecrow slashing. Going in-depth on the sisters' relationship and personal struggles with each other comes at the expense of the creature action which takes until the film's half-over before it even gets resurrected in the first place, and to then stop immediately after that point to learn the truth by way of a videotape confession about the incident may put the pieces together rather nicely but also causes the pacing to become so start/stop at the point where you don't want that is utterly criminal. This type of stupidity is odd to see from a setup like this, and tends to go along nicely here with the lower budget here without any kind of spectacular deaths or gore to be the main drawbacks here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.