Apparently Wales has a killer scarecrow problem. First Curse of the Scarecrow, and now this? Whatever you do, do not steal in Wales because an angry mob will leave you strung up like a scarecrow and murder you.
Once again we have a story where a man was murdered by a mob for stealing. The twist is his bride was also murdered. The man now walks the land every twenty years looking like a raggedy scarecrow and searching for his bride to be. The scarecrow has 48 hours to find his bride and murders anyone else he meets.
Radio host May has ratings so poor her show’s being moved to the 2am time slot. Shortly after hearing this, she gets news that she's inherited a farm. May is adopted and never knew her real father. She knows nothing about the family, which is unfortunate because the farm has a curse on it. A scarecrow curse.
May immediately quits her job because they don’t respect her talent (such as it is) and she wants to stick it to the man. She’s dreaming of the money she can make by selling the farm and also thinking maybe it would be nice to live there. She seems to have overlooked that farms cost money to maintain and she no longer has any income. Even if she did sell the farm, it could take awhile especially with the killer scarecrow issue.
May heads to the farm with her boyfriend and two friends. When they arrive, May’s told that her grandmother disappeared a year ago and the house has been empty since then. Yet the house is in order, and the barn is clean and full of animals. Who’s been caring for them or paying for their upkeep?
The group starts looking around and exploring the farm. At one point her boyfriend asks May, “what do you want me to do with the boxes?” Mary replies to unpack the in the kitchen. What boxes? They didn’t bring anything with them. Why are there boxes? What is going on?
The first one has scarecrow clippings about the killings. This raises questions about the beginning of the movie where the family living there says they have protected the land and kept the secret. Yet based on this box of clippings, the scarecrow doen’t seem to be a secret at all.
As expected the first night there, the scarecrow shows up and begins attacking people. May turns out to look just like his murdered bride, which complicates things and results in her boyfriend yelling, “I’m the only one taking this bitch down the aisle.” Classy indeed. Definitely don’t marry that guy.
The movie prompts two questions. First, if the scarecrow comes back every twenty years, then why does he appear when May and her friends are at the farm? The farm has only been vacant a year which means he appeared the year before. So she should be safe for the next 19 years.
Second , if the only time there is an issue is a 48 hour period every twenty years, is that really a problem? Couldn’t you just go stay somewhere else for two days? The family who lived there prior to May said as long as they stayed in the house they would be safe, which is another really simple option.
And why don’t the cell phones work, but WiFi does? If they have WiFi, they can use their cells.
Ridiculous dialogue
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