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A band of rogue military commandos kidnap a father and daughter along with all of their money and take to the skies at night for escape in a cargo plane. But that's not important.
What is important is where they land. An old, abandoned farmhouse is where they begin their track of a sneaky soldier who parachutes off of the plane with all of the money in hopes to cut everyone else out of the heist.
Down on ground we are in a midnight dreamworld of woods, fields, hay and planted scarecrows illuminated by moolight. A house in the distance with a gutted jeep parked out front. The perfect escape and a place to hole up until the sun rises.
No. It's a demon trap. The scarecrows are alive and will kill you until you are dead.
The atmosphere is just about the only thing that saves this movie from being complete garbage, and that's OK by me.
An old, rickety generator that runs electricity to the house and pumps water into a trough is suddenly animated, lit, like everything else, under a moonlight sheen.
It's hard to describe what you'll see here, but I can recommend this movie as being one that focuses on a certain mood and look. Nothing artsy or profound, unless you can find a bit of profundity in the fact that it feels like you are vacationing for 90 mins with not much story but plenty of room to breathe and imagine by your own accord, at your own pace, and fill in the blanks, which I did.
This is my second time watching this because it brought me back for re-examination. There is something about it. It's the location and the lighting. It is genuinely creepy, but not very scary. The gore is absolutely disgusting, and I don't particularly care for gore, but it did jump out at me on my recent viewing of....
Scarecrows
(1988)
(1988)
A band of rogue military commandos kidnap a father and daughter along with all of their money and take to the skies at night for escape in a cargo plane. But that's not important.
What is important is where they land. An old, abandoned farmhouse is where they begin their track of a sneaky soldier who parachutes off of the plane with all of the money in hopes to cut everyone else out of the heist.
Down on ground we are in a midnight dreamworld of woods, fields, hay and planted scarecrows illuminated by moolight. A house in the distance with a gutted jeep parked out front. The perfect escape and a place to hole up until the sun rises.
No. It's a demon trap. The scarecrows are alive and will kill you until you are dead.
The atmosphere is just about the only thing that saves this movie from being complete garbage, and that's OK by me.
An old, rickety generator that runs electricity to the house and pumps water into a trough is suddenly animated, lit, like everything else, under a moonlight sheen.
It's hard to describe what you'll see here, but I can recommend this movie as being one that focuses on a certain mood and look. Nothing artsy or profound, unless you can find a bit of profundity in the fact that it feels like you are vacationing for 90 mins with not much story but plenty of room to breathe and imagine by your own accord, at your own pace, and fill in the blanks, which I did.
This is my second time watching this because it brought me back for re-examination. There is something about it. It's the location and the lighting. It is genuinely creepy, but not very scary. The gore is absolutely disgusting, and I don't particularly care for gore, but it did jump out at me on my recent viewing of....
Scarecrows!