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Rise of the Scarecrows (2009)

Directed by Geno McGahee, Jeremy Weiskotten

Horror

Overview

Officer Brown, a big city cop comes to Adams, Massachusetts to get away from all the crime, but stumbles across a deadly secret. Adams is the sort of town that you can visit but never leave. Officer Brown soon discovers the horrible truth that is THE RISE OF THE SCARECROWS.

Rated NR | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Steven Joseph Adams | Deon Ballard | Anthony Brown

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

It’s easy to bag on a micro-budget film that’s shot on video. It’s especially easy if the actors are completely terrible and wooden, the on-screen murder scenes visibly show the killers stabbing air and not a body and the editing is so off people are wearing sunglasses in one cut and not in the next and then back and forth.

Rise of the Scarecrows is so bad, it’s laughable. I admire the heart that goes into a micro-budget movie. Hell, it’s inspiring to say the least. These guys even got this on DVD and on Netflix Watch Instantly and it’s the quality of something someone shot in their backyard! You have to give props to that. However, it doesn’t forgive that I thought it was a bad movie.

Forgiving the budget, bad editing and bad acting, you can’t even rely on the script. It’s filled with unlikeable characters who cuss simply to cuss, talk to themselves to fill the dead air (they sound like crazy people because they’re constantly talking to nobody), the plot is filled with holes and the scarecrows were just guys with a little straw stuffed in their shirts and bad burlap sacks over their heads. Completely far from scary, compelling or even believable.

I’ll give it this…the music they use to build up to the attacks is fantastic and creepy. I liked the metal songs they used when the scarecrows attacked people. And they got some girl to get completely, buttass naked. That’s always worth something in a movie.

As bad as the movie is, I couldn’t turn it off, so that says something to me. I hope these guys are learning from their films and continue to make more of them because I do want micro-budget horror people to continue on. I just want them to make better movies.

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