Scarecrow Slayer

Rating:
Summary: So bad, it's good
Review: Awful! I'm gonna keep this short and simple: Acting=Terrible, Effects=Terrible, The movie itself=Terrible.

Rating:
Summary: scarecrow slayer
Review: bad, that is all i can say about this video, besides the fact that i hope not to see kids in anymore movies. i have seen other scarecrow horror movies so i know it can be done. the first thing, you have no idea what the movie is about also where is all the special effects i had to give this movie at least i star i guess that would be because someone actually invested there money in this movie. bad investment

Rating:
Summary: Cheezy and incoherent but fun
Review: How can a movie with karate fighting scarecrows be all bad? The gore effects are done using video images, which is not at all convincing but still interesting. Some of the scenes are genuinely funny. Many scenes involve people getting in and out of cars.
If you are a fan of these type of films, you might want to sit through this once.

Rating:
Summary: What The Hell?
Review: I reiterate, "What the hell?".. This movie appeared to be filmed by a bunch of intoxicated highschool jocks. My friend and I rented this movie for B-movie thrills, but all we found was a bunch of retarded co-eds running from a non-scary antagonist. Speaking of the antagonist, a freaking scarecrow, and to top that, it used to be one of their friends. And the way the guy was 'possessed' by the scarecrow was utterly cheesy, but still funny. It looked like a horrible techno-rave scene by some guy trying to re-create a recent acid trip.

I wouldn't recommend renting, or buying this film unless you want to have a brain aneurism. Seriously, it's that bad. I suppose you could rent it just to make fun of it, but even then it's horrible. I could have made a better movie using MSDOS. That is really all I have to say about this pixelated crap-fest.

Rating:
Summary: What The Hell?
Review: I reiterate, "What the hell?".. This movie appeared to be filmed by a bunch of intoxicated highschool jocks. My friend and I rented this movie for B-movie thrills, but all we found was a bunch of retarded co-eds running from a non-scary antagonist. Speaking of the antagonist, a freaking scarecrow, and to top that, it used to be one of their friends. And the way the guy was 'possessed' by the scarecrow was utterly cheesy, but still funny. It looked like a horrible techno-rave scene by some guy trying to re-create a recent acid trip.

I wouldn't recommend renting, or buying this film unless you want to have a brain aneurism. Seriously, it's that bad. I suppose you could rent it just to make fun of it, but even then it's horrible. I could have made a better movie using MSDOS. That is really all I have to say about this pixelated crap-fest.

Rating:
Summary: What The Hell?
Review: I reiterate, "What the hell?".. This movie appeared to be filmed by a bunch of intoxicated highschool jocks. My friend and I rented this movie for B-movie thrills, but all we found was a bunch of retarded co-eds running from a non-scary antagonist. Speaking of the antagonist, a freaking scarecrow, and to top that, it used to be one of their friends. And the way the guy was 'possessed' by the scarecrow was utterly cheesy, but still funny. It looked like a horrible techno-rave scene by some guy trying to re-create a recent acid trip.

I wouldn't recommend renting, or buying this film unless you want to have a brain aneurism. Seriously, it's that bad. I suppose you could rent it just to make fun of it, but even then it's horrible. I could have made a better movie using MSDOS. That is really all I have to say about this pixelated crap-fest.

Rating:
Summary: I cannot accept this movie's existence...
Review: I was thrilled by Christopher Lambert's, "high-speed " dog sled chase...I suspended disbelief in the French Julius Caesar of Druids. I held just enough faith that there was some metephysical explanation for the vampiric bodyguards who mysteriously vanish after the first sequence of Mean Guns. Rabid Grannies have scampered across my tv screen in all their glory. Blind men are ravaged by their dogs for no reason at all in movies like Suspiria, and it's ok. I can even accept that in some bizarre world, it's possible to learn how to fly a fighter plane in some hidden passage of the Declaration of Independence to battle alien oppressors in Hubbard's delusions. Even such atrociously bad movies like Bio-zombie and Dead Alive (or...Peter Jackson original sin.) do not come close to the ...Plainly put, Scarecrow Slayer is the worst film I have ever seen...and I've run the gauntlet of even Christopher Lambert films and escaped with less trauma than I have from watching this movie. The only thing worse than having seen David Latt's "movie" was having seen it again with friends.

The acting is...check that..there is NO acting, except for perhaps Tony Todd. Why Tony Todd chose to act in this film..I can't say. One of my friends suggested that Latt must have had some pretty good dirt on Todd...I cannot imagine the Candyman waking up one day and deciding that this was a good career move unless Latt knew about the bodies in the closet. Also noteworthy is David Castro (I KNOW I've seen him somewhere else) as the nutball best friend who eventually becomes the second karate-practicing scarecrow. (pay special attention to his form as he back-kicks and flips his way through the final battle..stunt double, of course.) , and Nicole Kingston in her first starring role..I'm sure we'll be seeing Ms. Kinston many more times in the future. Of course..that's about all the cast they had money for..it almost seems like you see names appearing twice in the credits. I was half-expecting David Latt to jump in as one of the college marine kids.

It doesn't get better, of course..as one is dazzled by special effects that are worse than a two year's stick figure crayon drawings. Cell phones screech and appear to be plastered with a giant metallic sticker to show how they're going haywire in this thriller. Cars inexplicably turn up in different places then they were earlier. Hospitals are staffed with only two people. Doctors bake cookies to offer visitors before threatening to stick them with needles. Leading ladies throw themselves from second story windows so we may see them fall in slow motion. Phantom lights driving next to cars ..or sometimes appearing in the sky, flitter across the screen. And, while we're at it...since when do college kids..(even if they plan on joining the marines) have access to enough weapons to walk down the streets of Paris in conquest? And why in god's name do they put these weapons down at EVERY oppurtunity. Instead of blowing up the Scarecrow with the bazooka he somehow retrieves in the course of this convoluted tale, the best friend PUTS DOWN the bazooka, and charges the Scarecrow. Which..brings me to the Scarecrow. The saving grace..if this movie has any, is actually the decent job done of the first scarecrow costume. While not particularly scary..care was obviously taken in the making of that costume, while it was not taken in the making of this movie. Unfortunately,the same cannot be said of the second Scarecrow's..kiddie halloween-looking farce.

If, after you've seen this film, you have chance to watch the informative Behind-the-Scenes, pay no attention to any equipment strewn about the set. It obviously was not used during the making of this...movie. I almost wept as Tony Todd tried to explain his presence in the movie..wanting only to say, " It's ok..the charges won't stick." Summing up the movie perfectly, the skull-carrying ballerina crew member dances insanely during the Behind-the-Scenes portion..bringing me to the conclusion that the makers of this travesty were all on some sort of heavy hallucinogen. Anyway..I wrote this in the vain attempt that anyone reading it will take my advice and steer clear of this movie...it is bad..and not good-bad. BAD. Pay no attention to the one-star rating I gave this movie. This high school film project is not even worth that. Thanks.

Rating:
Summary: Oh God!
Review: I'm not sure if this is the worst movie I have ever seen, but it comes close.

However, it is difficult to make such a claim, because this movie really doesn't compare to many other bad movies I have seen. Some just look like the sloppy work of Hollywood professionals. Others are bad because the filmmakers attempt to make something entertaining and fail. But this movie is different. This movie does have Tony Todd in it, but beyond having one (and only one) actor who has been in movies people have actually heard of, there is absolutely nothing professional about "Scarecrow Slayer." There is no evidence that the filmmakers actually tried to produce anything remotely resembling entertainment. There is also no evidence that they could do anything like that if they wished. This looks like a home movie.

Let me examine some of the flaws in detail.

First, the story is absurd and stupid. Caleb Kilgore (Tony Todd) has been obsessed all his life with the scarecrow in question (it killed his father). One night some college kids are near Kilgore's house (barn?) preparing for some fraternity prank and one them, Dave, gets killed when the scarecrow falls on him and Kilgore, not knowing Dave to be beneath the scarecrow, shoots both of them. Somehow, Dave becomes the scarecrow and he begins slicing up people with his scythe (or throwing them to death or smashing their heads behind doors) in his apparent attempt to kidnap his girlfriend, Mary, and turn her into another scarecrow. (At least I think that's what happened. It wasn't entirely clear in the movie; I had to use the summary on the DVD box to know exactly what was supposed to be going on.) Second, the acting is bad. Most of the scenes were probably filmed in one take, so I will forgive the actors on their sloppy performances. (Of course, that is not to say that any of the actors have any talent.) Third, the camera work is horrible. Anytime you see lights in this movie, you also see glare. The picture is grainy, too. It was probably shot on an 8mm camcorder. Fourth, there is no sense of continuity or attention to detail. At one point, for example, a car is abandoned in a field, it later ends up parked next to a fence for no reason. It is also unclear how long time passes in the story. There is evidence both that the movie takes place over the course of one night and that it takes place over the course of a few days. What is the right answer? Who knows? (And who cares?)

And the special effects? They get a new paragraph. The special effects were quite literally the worst I have ever seen in any movie. That may seem like quite a statement, but you must realize that it is relative. If this movie had been made in say, the 1930s, I would only call the special effects mediocre. But this movie was made in 2003, and there are several sequences that literally look as if the special effects were produced on the director's laptop (assuming this movie had room in its budget for a laptop). And I am not exaggerating. You could probably recreate some of those sequences by buying some home-video-editing software from the bargain bin at CompUSA.

Finally, the supposedly remarkable climactic battle of scarecrow vs. scarecrow is mindbogglingly atrocious. Here's the background to this scene: Dave's best friend Karl is apparently in love with Dave because near the end of the movie, he wishes that Dave would kill him instead of Mary, making Karl into another scarecrow so that Dave and Karl could spend eternity together instead of Dave and Mary. How sweet. Anyway, Karl gets his wish (I would have warned you about the spoiler, but the summary on the box gives it away, as if you should give a hoot). But I guess Karl is not grateful for having been killed and turned into a scarecrow, because he tries to defeat Dave immediately afterwards. Now, within the context of this movie, it at least made a modicum of sense as to how Dave came to inhabit the body of a scarecrow. But where the second one came from is not clear at all. What is clear, however, is that this new one was assembled rather quickly because it was the worst costume I have ever seen, consisting of brown pants, a brown shirt and some straw sticking out of the sleves and covering the feet.

Avoid this piece of garbage at all costs unless you are drunk, high, or both, and you have nothing better to do with your time (like pounding your head against a brick wall for 93 minutes or eating an entire container of styrophoam cups instead).

Rating:
Summary: pretty bad
Review: If you have seen the first scarecrow movie you will probally know what to expect,well I did'int and I loved the original. First of all the movie acts like the first one did'int even happen, besides that little fact I thought the movie was going to be as fun as the the first....I was WRONG!!. I could live with a diffirent story but I could'int live with really bad actors(If you thought the actors in the first were bad wait till you hear these)spitting out lines from a [bad] script, and to top it all off they put in really chessy computer effects.
I would only buy this movie if it were around 5 bucks but if you can't find it that cheap just rent it.

Rating:
Summary: save your money for something worth while!
Review: ok, there is 4 main charchters. the main guy wants to join some stupid ferternity club, so he has to go still a scarecrow. the farmer catches him, goes to shoot at the scarecrow because its coming to life and misses and hits the boy. the boys soul goes into the scarecrow and he becomes this psychotic scarecrow killing everbody except his girlfriend and his guy friend. anyways i got almost to the end but was so bored i turned the dumb show off and went and did something else. the whole scarecrow idea sounded really cool to me but this movie blows! the only reason i gave this pathetic excuse of a movie 2 stars is because it has some really cool/gory killings! this movie isn't cheesy, scary, or funny....just stupid! the only reason its rated R is for Horror (which is a load of bull), violence/gore, and language.