Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Redundant and unnecessary.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Sheldon Wilson directs this scare fest for Syfy Pictures about an old scarecrow that stands in an abandoned cornfield and will be the focus of a Scarecrow Festival that has run for over a hundred years. A group of teens seek out a deadly scarecrow on the eve of the fall harvest festival. The urban legend claims "it never sleeps, never dies and lives to kill". The blood lusting scarecrow wants to seek revenge on the descendants of its original captor. But actually, anyone will do to turn the corn rows into a bloody graveyard. The legend needs nurturing. The story line sounds familiar and predictable until things go "willy-nilly" in the night. Actually a lot of fun.The cast features: Lacey Chabert, Robin Dunne, Nicole Munoz, Richard Harmon, Lanie McAuley, Reilly Dolman and Julia Maxwell.

With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, teacher Aaron Harris is giving out punishment for six students serving detention.Their task is to help Aaron's ex-girlfriend Kristen fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend that never sleeps, never dies, can't be stopped, and hear their cries. When the students play a terrifying game of cat and mouse in the cornfield with what they think is a wild animal, Kristen tries to convince them that the Scarecrow is very real, and rejuvenated by the blood of its prey.......Apart from the not too bad CG of the titular creature, this is nothing more than a cheap knock off of Jeepers Creepers one and two.We have the obligatory biggish name actress in the form of 'megastar' Lacey Chabert, and the bloke who was in the straight to DVD sequels to Cruel Intentions, and The Skulls. We are talking high profile here...Add you stereotypical bunch of high school students, and you have a recipe for a film that sounds good on paper, but the finished product is just a waste of time for everyone involved.All of the cast try to do their best with the poor script, and the reasoning behind the shape shifting of the Scarecrow is never fully explained. So we get nothing more than silly kids running around into dark places, thinking they can kill something supernatural by stabbing and shooting it. Have they never seen a low budget horror film before?Of course they haven't, They are in a horror film, which is meta.And meta rhymes with better, which the writers must do next time...

If all horror clichés were made into a movie, this would be it. The movie was very predictable. The characters lacked common sense and thinking capacity that would've saved their lives.*possible spoilers*One thing I never really understood was how the group got up a pit using a rope hanging from a splinter. I can't even comprehend how the splinter managed to support 5 people to get out.Additionally, the movie's deliberate attempt to shock by reducing the group's large number is saddening. The pointless attempt to 'sacrifice' animals to save them is more of a weak idea than an aha moment.Speaking of aha moments, the characters only started thinking of ideas to stall the creature very late in the movie.Most of them also died because of being led by their emotions rather than using their wit.I do find the concept of the legend a bit creative, the actors were good and the CGI is admirable.

While Scarecrow is left wanting somewhat, for SyFy it really isn't so bad. There are some good things. Scarecrow is one of SyFy's better-looking recent movies, the scenery is good and atmosphere and it is slickly shot. The quality of the scarecrow design is not bad at all, in fact apart from some too-smooth movements, which for SyFy is saying a good deal. The score does have some eeriness, and the beginning sets things up nicely. The acting is better than average also, Lacey Chabert and Robin Dunne fare the best and they are good. The direction is of the kind is that is never inept or adept, competent is the best word though it could have been with more crispness and character in the latter part of the movie. There are failings in Scarecrow though. The biggest failing is that it doesn't convey its horror elements very well. There are some moments in the first half, but much of it suffers from being too been-there-done-that quality, from not knowing when to end, from having a lack of build-up or suspense and that the fear and danger levels are quite low. The story is refreshingly simple to begin with and starts promisingly, sadly it is also the kind of story that later on becomes too simple and runs out of ideas too early. There is also too much down-time and exposition, coupled with the lack of scares there are too many of tediousness. The dialogue could have done with being tighter, and with less of an over-serious and simplistic approach. The exposition scenes are particularly bad in this regard. And while the scarecrow is good in look, it also doesn't have much of a personality and is severely under-utilised. In conclusion, not bad, could have been worse but it's nothing particularly great either. 5/10 Bethany Cox