Was drawn into seeing 'Scarecrows' with a cool poster/cover, a very intriguing if not creative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for horror. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there, made me though apprehensive.

'Scarecrows' is a film it doesn't do enough with its potential (although there are far bigger wastes of potential in film) and could have been much better. 'Scarecrows' is very weak with a lot of big problems. It certainly could have been far worse, considering the large number of films seen recently being mediocre at best and terrible at worst.

Lets start with the positives. The setting is atmospheric and spooky and 'Scarecrows' is surprisingly well shot and easy on the eye, was expecting a cheap looking film and to me that wasn't the case here.

'Scarecrows' has some suspenseful and creepy moments and it started off on a fun and intriguing note.

Albeit, there is nothing new here, it's all familiar territory and executed in old-hat fashion. While the first half is better than the second, the goofiness became more grating than fun and the second half feels like a completely different tonally and takes itself far too seriously. The creepiness is not sustained all the way through, with the horror and tension being nowhere near enough. Things start not making much sense and gets silly. The acting entertained at first because there was the sense that they knew what kind of film it was but the over-the-top campiness got very annoying and excessive.

Further issues are that it was clear that it was written in haste. There is a very rushed and careless feel to the story, especially in the second half where confusion and choppiness can be found in editing and narrative, and the underdeveloped and scrappy script likewise. The characters are flimsily developed, annoying and bland, the direction lacks focus and the music and sound editing are far too intrusive and obvious.

In summary, weak. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Two guys try to have sex with two girls by going to a remote and posted lake. Owners take trespassers and make scarecrows out of them. Nice car. Fix the AC.

Not much in the way of a back story. Needed a back story to tie into the film so the final girl can use that skill to get away. Didn't happen.

Guide: F-word. Implied sex. Brief body double nudity.

While on a hike to find a secret lagoon, a group of friends must pass through an evil looking cornfield. Little do they know that the owner of that cornfield turns any trespassers into living scarecrows that rot in his fields.

This film goes from teenagers on vacation to stoner comedy to backwoods slasher pretty quickly in its hour and twenty-five-minute running time. It's the first film I've seen where an insane farmer sews peoples' mouths shut and hangs them as living scarecrows that get their appendages bitten off by birds. So there's that.

Directed and co-written by Stu Stone (Ronald Fisher from Donnie Darko),Scarecrows works best when it moves away from comedy and becomes pure horror. It has nothing to do with 1988's Scarecrows other than its title. However, there are some decent practical FX and some pretty intense lighting and mood during the film's torture scenes.