Scarecrow (2002)

Synopsis: The movie opens with three guys smoking pot in a field of corn and telling scary stories. One of them begins to tell the story of Lester Dwervick and this is where the main plot of the movie starts. Lester is a high school student who is picked on by all of the popular kids, yelled at by a teacher, and has a drunken whore of a mother. After one particularly bad day his mother brings home a “date” that is rather foul tempered. Lester runs off only to see the one girl that was nice to him kissing a jock who has been picking on him. Well apparently he has had enough so when he runs back home to the trailer he gets into a fight with his mother’s date. Next thing you know old Lester in dead in a field by the scarecrow after being strangled! Of course not wanting to go to jail his mother and her date make it appear that Lester has hanged himself and everyone goes on with their lives. That is until Lester comes back as the scarecrow to take his revenge.

The Good: Well I’m reaching a bit here to find anything that is good about this movie. The makeup on the scarecrow is pretty cool and does look creepy. Also the scarecrow does throw around a few one-liners ala Freddy Krueger that are funny. All in all I suppose in a better movie the scarecrow could be a good character. Also whoever was the cinematographer did a really good job. They clearly didn’t have great equipment but all of the scenes are well defined and look really professional.

The Bad: Where to start? Well first of all the acting in this movie is just awful. I don’t know if this was everyone’s first film, but I sure hope so. In addition the casting is so very wrong. These actors are supposed to be in high school are all obviously in their mid to late 20s. The movie drags in many places and several scenes are clearly being dragged out to pad the runtime of the movie. Also the editing is really bad with the movie switching from day to night and then back to day. This give the impression that it takes hours for the sheriff to respond to a murder that takes place in town in broad daylight! I suppose that I can sum this movie up with one scene. The final confrontation between the female lead and the scarecrow she pins him against a wall with her truck and reaches over to grab a can. Luckily we all know what is in the can because of the big black letters against what appears to be a white label that says GAS! Yeah this movie is that good.

The Score: .5 out of 4

Better luck next time guys because this is a bad movie.

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