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If these actors passed the audition I would hate to see those that failed! Wooden acting, unconvincing dialogue and actions. The idea was ok but the story is very poor. Don't waste your time watching this.

What could have been an ok "B" Horror Movie turned out to be one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever unfortunately sat through! Hard to believe somebody actually funded this joke of a film! One good actress in the entire cast.

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.

...produced a two buck movie and that just about sums up this atrocious excuse for a horror movie.The acting was absolutely abysmal from everyone,which in turn tells you how bad the director is,or,how little they cared.I could go on further but really,there is no point,the entire movie sucks in every way,shape and form from beginning to end.

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

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.

Loved it! Deffo worth a watch its B movie magic! A stella cast! Led by three wonderful blondes. Deffo gets a thumbs up from me! 10/10

I really enjoyed this British horror film good effects and well acted. Nice scenery and cool locations. The scarecrow was very convincing and in my opinion played a key role. Crackinig goose

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

According to local legend, on a cold winter night some time back in the 1800's, the people of a small village killed a man they thought had stolen from them by hanging him on a cross in the middle of a cornfield and letting the crows peck him to death. Just prior to dying, however, he swore a curse upon them and for that reason his soul returns in the form of a scarecrow to that same location every 20 years and kills anybody he finds wandering about the field where he was murdered. Fast-forwarding to the present day, a young woman named "June" (Kate Lister) is recovering from a traumatic episode she experienced 20 years earlier when she and her brother "Carl" (Tommy Viles) witnessed their parents being killed by a scarecrow in a small village not too far away. Her therapist, "Karen" (Cassandra French) has almost convinced her that the trauma she experienced has caused her to imagine the assailant was something unnatural and the best way to convince her otherwise is to return to that same house in order to obtain closure on this horrific incident. However, when she calls her brother to let him know that she is coming to visit him at that same house where he now lives, he stridently advises her against the idea because of the legend which has the scarecrow coming back that very night. Not long afterward she is told by the authorities that her brother committed suicide. Now, more determined than ever, she makes the decision to revisit the house and takes her good friend "Nancy" (Louisa Warren) and Karen with her for support. What none of them realize, however, is that sometimes old legends have an element of fact behind them and the scarecrow is there and waiting for them. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie had a pretty good foundation to build upon but the director (Louisa Warren) just wasn't quite up to the task as it lacked the horror and tension necessary for a film of this sort. Likewise, other than possibly Tiffany-Ellen Robinson (as "Chanel") and the aforementioned Kate Lister the acting could have used some improvement as well. Be that as it may, while this wasn't necessarily a terrible film, I didn't think it was nearly as good as it could have been and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

This film had me laughing throughout. Of all the wrong decisions I have seen people make in horror movies, these dummies take the prize. Every decision they made was head scratching and laughable. I am sure I even saw scenes where they were trying not to laugh. If you want comedy, watch this steaming garbage................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Trying to get past their trauma, siblings return to the farmhouse where their parents were killed years ago when they were kids and begin to go through a series of tactics trying to prove the incidents weren't caused by a murderous scarecrow, only to find out the stories were true.

This was a fairly solid if somewhat disappointing feature. One of the better factors with this one is the immensely solid and effective setup that manages to work nicely enough to get the storylines in motion. The initial idea of the couple being faced with traumatic memories of what went on at the house when they were kids and hoping that a return visit to the farmhouse looking to settle things once and for all as to why the visions are centered around a murderous scarecrow haunting her family makes this work rather nicely. It gets the kids out to the house in the remote part of the countryside, ties in nicely with the original as there are some connections made in that regard offers up some fine work here as to what they'd return and get caught up in the series of events that they do with the revelation about the house sitting on the cursed property and the rampage repeating every chance it gets. When it came to the stalking scenes, there was enough here to make for a generally intriguing time. The original recreations of the accident when they were kids done through hypnosis sessions recalling everything that happened while brief images flash across the screen depicting the events offers a rather cheap yet intriguing way of going about this kind of sequence. The later stalkings around the property involving the creature taking out her friends as they try to engage in amorous activities at the house are decent enough, while the full-on finale offers the most scarecrow action with it coming to life and featured in some fun sequences where it hunts down the remaining group before the extended cat-and-mouse chase in the end. This is all enjoyable enough for what it is and provides some enjoyable features even though there are some big issues to be had here. The biggest drawback to this one is the simply lethargic running time that goes on in the first half where it takes far too long to get anything going in this one. Featuring far too much build-up about the different traumatic responses they had as kids, the different interactions with the friends around the house, or the few locals trying to convince her to leave the area all serve well enough to be worthwhile but also leaves the pacing to feel far too off for long in here. It doesn't hurt that this is all pretty cheaply rendered with the whole thing being confined to one location, features no real expansive gore or effects work, and keeps everything grounded to a more realistic tone than anything which all manage to lower this one overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

Yes this film has no budget Yes it is obviously rushed Yes at times the editing is appalling and Yes everyone is trying really hard against time and monetary constraints

However The cinematography is beautiful Locations are great Story is enthralling and does leave you wondering The cast are good and emote but struggle with poor dialogue and obvious are improvising half the time, The music elevates the atmosphere in to being genuinely scary

If you can cope with that this is a very watchable film, and one I would like to see remade with a bigger budget, the same cast and director and a longer production schedule

I loved this film and have followed this production team for some time now. Becca Hirani was excellent as always, Kate Lister brought the action and Tommy Viles has a nice cameo! Keep it coming. 👏🏻