When a developer disappears and their checks bounce, Drew Stone’s construction company is left with over $40,000 in debt. While the bank won’t give him a loan, they do offer him the chance to make money by doing the rehab on a home they foreclosed on. They neglect to tell him the last person they sent to the house died.
Drew, Allie and the rest of his crew head to the Dean farm, with a stop at a local tavern on the way. While they’re there, we see footage of a cowboy with a shotgun getting out of a pickup truck and heading into a cornfield. He is quickly killed by a guy in camouflage with a Halloween mask and burlap draped over his head. Is this supposed to take place on the Dean farm? Is that the scarecrow referenced in the title? Why did this man walk into a cornfield with a gun? No explanation is given.
The crew arrives at the farm after dark and explores by flashlight before they manage to get the electricity working. Planning is not their strong point since they don’t seem to have brought anything with them, such as food or extra clothing. I also haven’t seen any tools, but maybe they’ve left them in the truck. However they do find moonshine which they promptly drink. Drinking unknown liquid stored in mason jars found at an abandoned farm is not a great decision.
Allie find a young girls journal hidden under a floorboard. She stays up late to read it and even carries it into town the next day like a lunatic. The next night when a girl appears in the hallway, Allie tells her she’s safe, and promises to be her best friend forever. I’m assuming Allie is supposed to be concerned and caring, but she comes off as obsessive and needy. Later she tells the girl she loves her even though they’ve probably spoken for less than an hour. Little girl, run away now!
You’re probably wondering where the scarecrow is, which is a legitimate concern since more than half way through the film there are only two deaths. One of a bank employee who went to the farm, where we don’t see who killed him. The other in the cornfield whose location wasn’t established and was committed by a guy in camouflage. So… scarecrow?
Sadly, the camouflage guy is supposed to be the scarecrow, and he’s the brother of the little girl. I seriously wonder if the distributor just slapped the name scarecrow on it since it takes place on a farm. But since there isn’t even a page for this film on IMDB, I have no idea what is going on.
There are so many ridiculous things that happen in this movie:
- The shadow of the cameraman can be seen on the walls
- When the scarecrow chases Allie he is holding a sickle, but once they are in the cornfield, he is holding a scythe
- A man gets his hand cut off but still manages to get from the barn to the house, have long conversations, and go back out to the barn to look for his missing hand
- The crew sleeps on the beds in the abandoned house, yuck that bedding can’t be clean
- Why is Allie so invested in this girl?
- Drew says the scarecrow must have “excaped”. How did they not shoot that again? Does everyone associated with the movie mispronounce escaped?
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