Scarecrows

1988

Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 6185 6.2K

airplane supernatural possession scarecrow heist double cross

Plot summary

Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

Director

William Wesley Photo
William Wesley

Top cast

Michael David Simms Photo
Michael David Simms as Curry
David James Campbell Photo
David James Campbell as Al
Mike Balog Photo
Mike Balog as Benjamin Fowler
Phil Zenderland Photo
Phil Zenderland as Norman Fowler
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695.38 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.23 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claptonisgod53 6 / 10

Atmospehre and scares make up for lack of plot

The plot in Scarecrows is extremely generic, cardboard, and simple. If you want a movie that will have you thinking for hours on end, the Scarecrows will not suite you fine at all, period. However, if you are a person who would rather watch a movie for the sheer atmosphere, then you have found a nice little gem.Scarecrows is far from perfect, the plot is extended out to nothing, which takes away any chance of this movie being gripping at all. The characters are also paper-thin, and have no personality whatsoever. The actors were also pretty bland. The script was poorly written, and extremely forgettable.The only redeeming aspect is the fact that this movie has a great amount of sheer atmosphere, and the fact that the scarecrows are extremely creepy. If it wern't for the terror in the atmosphere of the film, then this movie would resemble a 1980s House of the Dead.If you want a creepy movie with a plot that you don't really have to get into, then Scarecrows will fit you.Recommended to B-Movie enthusiast only.
Reviewed by Weirdling_Wolf 9 / 10

Some 80s slashers can't hack it anymore, 'Scarecrows' is the scream of the crop!

This exciting, independently financed 80s horror gem might well have slipped into undeserved obscurity like many other quick-buck hack-fests made during VHS horror boom, but writer/director, William Wesley clearly had ambition to create more than just another generic, identi-kill slasher. Vividly renewed on Blu-ray, the evilly atmospheric, riotously entertaining 'Scarecrows' has multiple idiosyncrasies that make it stand decapitated heads, and gored shoulders above the dully derivative terror throng of stupefyingly stab-happy, copycat crappy, dismally dull Halloween facsimiles.Completing a daring heist on a military base, our swarthy,quarrelsome, persistently perspiring protagonists hijack a private charter plane, hoping it will swiftly transport them and the plentiful loot to secure vectors far beyond the long eyes of the law. Unfortunately, the splatter movie fates have conspired to thwart our surprisingly personable, colourfully wise-cracking outlaw's pragmatic plan!Post mid-flight calamity the gun-toting thieves find themselves anxiously dispersed, sans contraband, stumbling blindly on a doom-laden exodus through an oppressively crepuscular,uncommonly unnerving corn field! Increasingly discombobulated, our mercenary misfits nervily converge upon an isolated, apparently abandoned Hunter's Cabin. Eerily encircled by ominous, shadow-lurking scarecrows actively wishing them considerable ill, after one of the heavily armed group fails to return from the terror-haunted field, the sinister, Stephen King-esque shizz really begins to hit the fan!Scarecrows abounds excitingly with vividly drawn characters, quality banter, and monstrously effective, pant-wettingly malicious monsters, gorily perpetrating unspeakably horrible deaths! Especially noteworthy is the remarkably atmospheric photography by, Peter 'Evil Dead II' Deming, and Terry Plumieri's deliciously doomy electronic score. William Wesley's sinister, shock-stuffed 'Scarecrows' is a thrillingly gruesome, top tier, dynamically made and spectacularly photographed 80s horror classic. With memorably macabre kills, and a palpable menace, 'Scarecrows' deserves to be raised much higher up in the horror pantheon. Remember.... All trespassers will be violated'.
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