"Scarecrows"

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Now that the weather is getting warmer, we can expect farmers to be tilling the soil for the upcoming crop this season soon. Corn in Vermont is one of most major crops grown and depending on the rainfall it usually grows well. Yet many people can't deny that when it comes to looking out into the rows of corn that the scarecrows that some put out there can give you the creeps and would be something you wouldn't want to run across lost in a cornfield at night. Or anything else for that matter.

Off on a road trip to find a quiet secluded lake, four college students Ash (Hannah Gordon), Farbsie (Mike Taylor), Ely (Umed Amin) and Devon (Maaor Ziv) are just looking for a good time. While trying to find the way to this lake, they take a short cut through a farmer's (Jason J. Thomas; credited as The Father) corn field that has very eerie looking scarecrows. At first everything seems fine, but when it feels like they're being watched they start to head back to the car only to find it is gone. With the sun going down they have no choice but to find help, but as they wander through the rows of corn they come to find that the scarecrows are not just eerie, they're dead bodies. Now they're being hunted down by a murderous farmer who doesn't take kindly to trespassers and has no intention of letting them leave his cornfield alive, or ever.

Creepy, yet somewhat predictable. While the fear element of a twisted psychopath pursuing innocent victims is well portrayed, it didn't hold many surprises as far as shock value and no unexpected twist. I did enjoy the make-up effects used to make this film as gruesome looking as they could which was a plus and why it stays in the ballpark of two and a half G.M.Stars and not lost in a field somewhere.

⭐⭐½
Green Mountain Stars

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