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Scarecrows

  • 1988
  • R
  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
6K
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Scarecrows (1988)
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Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.

  • Director
    • William Wesley
  • Writers
    • William Wesley
    • Richard Jefferies
    • Larry Stamper
  • Stars
    • Ted Vernon
    • Michael David Simms
    • Richard Vidan
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • William Wesley
    • Writers
      • William Wesley
      • Richard Jefferies
      • Larry Stamper
    • Stars
      • Ted Vernon
      • Michael David Simms
      • Richard Vidan
    • 144User reviews
    • 76Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Ted Vernon
    Ted Vernon
    • Corbin
    Michael David Simms
    Michael David Simms
    • Curry
    • (as Michael Simms)
    Richard Vidan
    Richard Vidan
    • Jack
    Kristina Sanborn
    Kristina Sanborn
    • Roxanne
    Victoria Christian
    Victoria Christian
    • Kellie
    David Campbell
    David Campbell
    • Al
    B.J. Turner
    B.J. Turner
    • Bert
    Dax Vernon
    • Dax the Dog
    Tony Santory
    • Jakob Fowler
    Phil Zenderland
    • Norman Fowler
    Mike Balog
    • Benjamin Fowler
    Don Herbert
    Don Herbert
    • Radio Newscast
    • (voice)
    Howard E. Haller
    • Helicopter Pilot
    • (voice)
    • …
    Dyanne DiRosario
    • Kellie
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • William Wesley
    • Writers
      • William Wesley
      • Richard Jefferies
      • Larry Stamper
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    6ma-cortes

    Effective B-thriller/chiller with supernatural elements , suspense, blood , gore and guts

    Mindless and acceptable horror thriller packed with chills , intrigue , terror and lots od interminable screams with no much sense . Including a large number of sinister scenes that usually are frightening and terrifying to spectator. Decent chiller about a gang of delinquents who hijack a plane to go to Mexico . One the the robbers flees and parachutes to a cornfield , then the others land on the location to find him . But there they are mercilessly pursued and massacred by various scarecrows . As they carry out a relentless criminal spree , an implacable slaughter on each person, one by one , with plenty of nighmarish scenes and extreme terror .

    An intriguing and gory tale of terror and survival , the picture displays restless horror and great loads of screams , blood , guts and usual weird appearances by surprising scarecrows at a corrnfield , manifesting themselves with creepy threats , violent attacks , grisly murders and anything else . It is produced in limited but well used budget , including nicely recreated special effects , make-up enough and disturbing , shocking gore . The story begins little by little , but when the appearance of the eerie scarecrows takes place the films gets its adequate developing. The cast , though unknown , provides appropiate interpretations fitting to their funcional roles , such as : Ted Vernon, Michael Simms , David Campbell, Victoria Christian , BJ Turner . This Terror subgenre about Scarecrows has the best film titled "Dark night of the scarecrow" 1981 by Frank de Felitta with Charles Durning , Ernest Borgnine , Robert F Lyons , and others as "Scarecrow" 2013 by Sheldon Wilson with Lacey Charbet , Robin Dunne , " Children of corn" by Fritz Kiersch with Peter Horton , Linda Hamilton and its several sequels .

    It contains a nice cinematography by Peter Deming, this cameraman has expanded a long and succesful cinematic career over thirty years . This Scarecrows 1988 is a passable terror movie being professionally written and directed by William Wesley . This director has made a few but acceptable short budget movies as Cinema as TV such as : Apolo Z , Monsters , Rout 666 and this Scarecrows at his best.
    6cheekyfilm

    A couple creepy moments, some laughs, and a lot of killer scarecrows

    A Joe Pesci look alike and his military friends rob and kidnap a father/daughter combo, escaping in a jet airplane. During flight, one of the robbers grabs the loot and parachutes onto a farm haunted by demonic scarecrows. They land, and it becomes obvious that the human characters here don't matter, scarecrows are the main draw.

    It's super low-budget without showing too much, and the acting is very b-movie in an enjoyable way. Unfortunately, the story is just a set up to have guys with guns get sneakily picked off by alie.. I mean predato.. I mean scarecrows.

    But the simple plot works through decent effects, competent direction, and the scarecrows themselves. (They're near invulnerable, wield knives, pitchforks, cleavers, and sew people full of leaves to make them into zombified slaves.)

    There's some genuinely creepy moments and some laughable schlock. If you don't go in expecting much, this can be a fun ride.
    6The_Void

    Low key, but creepy little horror flick

    Scarecrows shows what you can do with a very flimsy plot line and a low budget. Rather than concentrate on characters or story, the film leans more towards aesthetics; as the tale is portrayed within a very creepy atmosphere, and the central monsters of the title capitalise well on their natural scare factor. Like clowns, scarecrows are eerie creations and it's clear that director William Wesley knows that, as their dark and foreboding image makes up the backbone of this tale of terror. The only real theme that is put on display in this film comes from the idea of greed, as it is that very thing that gets all the central protagonists into life-threatening danger. The film follows a bunch of soldiers that have stolen a lot of money. They take a pilot and his daughter hostage and force the pair to take them to Mexico; but the ride has a hitch when one of the crooks decides that he doesn't want to share the money, and parachutes out of the plane with the loot. His partners in crime are soon on his tail, but the story has another twist when it turns out that the field they've jumped into is infested with scarecrows that want to do more than keep the birds off the crops!

    This film isn't very well known and it's not hard to see why. Scarecrows is very short, running at about seventy minutes when you don't include the credit sequences. The film also feels very low-key, as the focus is more on the atmosphere than anything else, which can leave the film lacking at several intervals. Scarecrows is basically a glorified zombie movie, and pretty much plays out like one as the characters are picked off by their unworldly adversaries. The fact that the entire film takes place in what appears to be real time and in only one location ensures that it benefits from a claustrophobic tension, which benefits a film like this greatly. There isn't a lot of gore here, as the killings don't tend to be very bloodthirsty, and most of the violence takes place off-screen. The killings aren't bad, however, and I was impressed with the way that the film handled the scarecrows' victims after they had been savaged. Overall, this film certainly won't win any awards, and you won't really be missing much by not seeing it; but any horror fan that gets the chance to see Scarecrows probably won't be disappointed.
    Dethcharm

    "I Think This Place Is Possessed By Demonic Demons!"...

    After a brazen robbery at Camp Pendleton, a gang of crooks force a pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. Unfortunately for the bad guys, one of their number takes the money and parachutes out of the plane! Not wanting to let him get away with the loot, the rest of the team soon follows him. Landing near an old farm, the hunt is on.

    Unbeknownst to these miscreants, something about this particular farm just isn't right. There's a small army of real "stuffed shirts" in the cornfield who have been waiting for a few visitors to drop in, so they can "stalk" them. Within a short time, the criminal crew is up against a seemingly unstoppable force of eeevil. A gore-drenched attrition problem soon follows. Will anyone escape, or will they all become "husks" of their former selves?

    SCARECROWS is one of the better late-80's horror films, that would have been the perfect addition to any Saturday night, creep fiesta! Owing much to a multitude of zombie epics, the story is simple, but eerily effective. The title entities are suitably mysterious and gruesome. The woo-woo music fits the grisly action, and overall, the low-budget is well-spent.

    EXTRA CREDIT FOR: Many horrifically hilarious lines of dialogue!

    EXTRA-EXTRA CREDIT FOR: The grimmest of finales!...
    one4now4

    Not many movies scare me, but this one...

    Man, what a horror movie! The idea about killer scarecrows may turn a lot of people off by sounding cheezy, but this is talented filmmaking by people who knew what to do, and, best of all, what NOT to do. The dark, quiet, breezy cornfields of a deserted-looking rural area, with no one around for who knows how many miles, is served with some great creepy atmosphere. The music helps, with a lot of the soundtrack's more sedated moments being the creepiest of all. The gore and visual shocks are very detailed and well-done, but they are kept to a minimum for a lot of the running time. Still, as they say, when it rains, it pours! The acting is great, and the writers did the right thing when they knew NOT to try to give any explanation for how the killer scarecrows came to be other than as much as the characters can figure out (a cleverly vague theory about a family that had been living on the farm who were probably in league with Satan). A lot of great powers are wielded by the scarecrows, including the exact imitation of victims' voices and the ability to reanimate their victims for use to their own fiendish means. There is some humor, but it's character-to-character banter rather than any type of comedy. This is no goofy movie by any means. It really also creeped me out about how the scarecrows move with a sort of stealth, and silently run right up behind a character and off them in seconds, without warning. I had some serious trouble sleeping after this one, but that is a compliment. Not many movies have been able to do that with me, and even fewer are ones I still found enjoyable enough to search down in a used video store and shell out ten bucks to buy. I would only recommend the unrated version, but this is one of those movies that is hard to find in its rated version, so if you come across it, it will probably be unrated. Creepy, creepy stuff, the best way to describe this sadly overlooked masterpiece of horror cinema.

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    • Trivia
      While in post-production, the films producer Cami Winikoff and its director William Wesley were taking the film to LA to edit it, but they went to the wrong airport and missed their flight. That flight was Delta Air Lines Flight 191, which encountered a micro-burst upon landing in DFW and crashed, ultimately killing 137 of the 163 on board. The section of the plane they were to be sitting in had no survivors.
    • Goofs
      While Corbin and Kellie are making their escape towards the plane during last act of the movie (starting at around 1 hour 6 minutes in), there are many quick cuts to the plane which show it during daytime, however when the camera cuts back to the characters it is clearly the middle of the night / pitch black outside.
    • Quotes

      Corbin: God to Bert - your birthday has been cancelled!

    • Crazy credits
      In the final credits the cast is listed in two sections: Crows and Scarecrows.
    • Alternate versions
      There is an R-Rated Version and an Unrated Version of this film. The Unrated Version runs approx. four minutes longer than the R-Rated Version and features extended action and gore sequences that were trimmed for the R-Rated Version.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Silent Hunter (1995)

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    • Release date
      • March 26, 1991 (Portugal)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Evil Stalks
    • Filming locations
      • Davie, Florida, USA
    • Production company
      • Effigy Films
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    • Budget
      • $425,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 23m(83 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Ultra Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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