Scarecrow (2013 film)

Scarecrow is a 2013 Syfy Pictures original horror film directed by Sheldon Wilson. Wilson also directed two other Syfy original films: Carny (2009) and Mothman (2010). The film premiered on Syfy October 19, 2013 and the DVD was released on February 25, 2014.[1] It is the 25th film of the Maneater Series.

Scarecrow
Official DVD cover
GenreHorror
Written byRick Suvalle
Directed bySheldon Wilson
StarringLacey Chabert
Robin Dunne
Nicole Muñoz
Theme music composerMatthew Rogers
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
Production
Producer(s)Jamie Goehring
CinematographyEric J. Goldstein
Editor(s)Tony Dean Smith
Running time86 minutes
Production company(s)Brightlight Pictures
Lighthouse Pictures
RHI Entertainment
DistributorSonar Entertainment
Budget$2,000,000 (estimated)
Release
Original networkSyfy
Original release
  • October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19)

Plot

Two teens, Chad and his girlfriend Marcy, go to a cornfield to scare their friends Tyler and Nikki for posting pictures of them online. They enter an old barn where they fall through the floor. Marcy injures her thigh and Chad tries to help her. Mysteriously, her blood soaks up below her and something moving startles her. A monstrous hand grabs Chad's head from behind, killing him. Marcy screams.

In the next scene, high school teacher Aaron Harris (Robin Dunne) takes six teens: Calvin, Daevon, Nikki, Tyler, Maria and Beth to an abandoned cornfield to collect the scarecrow for the 100th Scarecrow festival. Nikki and Tyler tell the rest that the place has a legend that resulted from the deaths of 30 people who used to live there. Tyler starts the local chant, "It never sleeps, it never dies, it can't be stopped, hear their cries. The Scarecrow lives to kill us all. Keep it buried in the fall..." When they arrive, Aaron sees his ex-girlfriend Kristen Miller (Lacey Chabert) and gets out of the bus to talk to her. As they talk, Nikki takes the keys left in the ignition lock of the bus and retrieves her mobile phone that Aaron took away earlier.

Meanwhile, Kristen tells Aaron that she invited Eddie (Carlo Marks), Aaron's former best friend who previously dated Kristen, to help with the scarecrow. Eddie arrives and tries to leave after seeing Aaron, but can't restart his truck. In the meantime the teens head to the scarecrow. As Aaron, Kristen, and Eddie meet up with the teens, Calvin is tied to the scarecrow by Nikki and Tyler who are now missing. Kristen, Eddie and Daevon begin to untie Calvin when Beth is grabbed by an unknown force and dragged into the cornfield. Aaron tells Maria, Calvin and Daevon to stay where they are as he, Kristen, and Eddie goes to save Beth.

After they leave, Calvin runs off in panic. Kristen finds Beth, who is still alive, but is dragged away herself. After she is helped, everyone (excluding Nikki and Tyler) runs to a deserted farmhouse next to the field. Something tries to bash through the door and they try to hold it off. Suddenly Nikki's body is thrown over the windowsill with her throat slashed, before being dragged back out again.

The remaining survivors barricade the farmhouse and Daevon finds a rifle which he gives to Eddie. Maria explains that Nikki took the bus keys so the only means of escape is Eddie's truck. Arron decides he will make a break for the truck and drive to get help but before he can Calvin steals the keys and makes a break for the truck, as he tries to escape the scarecrow attacks him and kills him. Kristen attacks it with a Molotov cocktail which hits the truck and causes an explosion.

The group flee to the barn when the scarecrow blocks entry back to the farmhouse and quickly fall through the floor and find Marcy's remains and then Tyler's corpse hanging from the roof. They formulate a plan of escape and the group climb a rope one by one as they hear a police siren approach them.

The cop is quickly killed after shooting the scarecrow and the others retrieve his keys and plan to escape when they are again attacked and Daevon is killed.

Kristen, Aaron, Eddie, Beth and Maria escape and attempt to drive back to town when the scarecrow once again attacks and forces the car off the road and it hits a tree. Eddie is mortally wounded and sacrifices himself so the others can escape by igniting the gas leaking from the car. The group is then split up and Maria goes to meet up with Kristen and Aaron while Beth selfishly runs to a close by farm.

The group catch up and Maria berates Beth for being a coward and the remaining survivors break into the farmhouse and are confronted by a farmer. They explain what has happened and he confirms that the scarecrow was buried to stop it killing Kristen's family to avenge a vendetta. Suddenly dogs begin to bark and the farmer tells the group being around Kristen is dangerous. He is quickly killed after leaving the group. Beth wants to give the scarecrow what it wants; Kristen but Aaron and Maria refuse and Beth once again flees.

Aaron, Kristen and Maria decide to escape on a tractor when they hear Beth in the distance begging for help. Kristen goes to help despite Maria begging her not to. When Kristen finds Beth, Beth holds a blade to Kristen's throat and calls out to the scarecrow to come get her. As it approaches Aaron throws a rope around it and puts the rope into machinery which drags the scarecrow into a shredder. It grabs Beth's leg and pulls her to her death.

The scarecrow emerges from the machinery and attacks Maria, cutting open her leg but all three escape to the woods. Kristen forces Aaron and Maria to separate from her, knowing the scarecrow will follow her and she retreats to the farm where she slices open her hand and wipes her blood on cattle and opens their gate to distract the scarecrow. It works and cows can be heard crying in pain as she returns to Aaron and Maria (who is now weak from blood loss and being carried by Aaron) just as the group reunite the scarecrow spears Maria through the back killing her and injuring Aaron.

As day breaks Aaron and Kristen head toward a boat graveyard to find a life boat to escape in water where they believe the scarecrow will not follow. They find a workman with his face ripped off and are quickly confronted by the scarecrow which Aaron tackles and knocks into the water. Kristen runs below to try and help Aaron and finds him alive. He struggles to talk but tells Kristen to run just as the scarecrow punches through his chest finally killing him.

Kristen arms herself with an axe and lures the scarecrow to the bowels of the ship where she sets it on fire in the furnace causing the boat to explode finally killing the scarecrow once and for all.

Cast

Release

The film was released on DVD by Gaiam International on February 25, 2014. It was later released by Sonar Entertainment on March 10, 2015 as a part of its 2-disk Fright Night Collection.[2]

Reception

Felix Vasquez from Cinema Crazed gave the film a negative review, writing, "Scarecrow definitely has potential to deliver a neat monster, and defies expectations with some surprises. It doesn’t add up to an entertaining or remotely unique horror film, though. In the end, it’s merely just a stock monster on a rampage thriller that’s watchable because of Chabert."[3]

gollark: I can literally get a *computer* (without peripherals) for that price.
gollark: I mean, for £25 you get... buttons, an underpowered CPU, a battery, and some sort of low-res LCD matrix.
gollark: Heresy.
gollark: Calculators... generally still seem to be a scam, though.
gollark: Anyway, at my school we mostly use(d) Casio FX-991EX calculators, which have lots of nice features.

References
  1. Amazon.com: Scarecrow: Lacy Chabert, Sheldon Wilson, Douglas G. Davis, Rick Suvalle: Movies & TV
  2. "Scarecrow (2013) - Sheldon Wilson". Allmovie.com. Allmovie. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. Vasquez, Felix. "Scarecrow (2013)". Cinema Crazed.com. Felix Vasquez. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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