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Rating: 5.5 stars

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All movies seen on 10/23/2023

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Scarecrows (1988)

Directed by William Wesley

Horror | Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, tylermager

Overview

Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

Rated R | Length 83 minutes

Actors

Ted Vernon | Michael David Simms | Richard Vidan | Kristina Sanborn | Victoria Christian | David James Campbell | B.J. Turner | Tony Santory | Phil Zenderland | Mike Balog | Don Herbert

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Started this on the flight home to Colorado via download but the movie is too dark to see what’s happening. So I finished the second half at home. Wanted to revisit bc it’s been mentioned a lot on my TL recently. It is seasonally appropriate.

There’s a lot to like especially the scarecrow design and the heist premise. The practical FX are great, too. But that dialogue and those actors and that screenplay needed work. Lines like “they’re some kind of demonic demons!” is not good. But it was cool to see old Dave Campbell (Deadly Prey) as the good guy father.

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