2013 · horror · sci-fi · action
Scarecrow
Directed by Sheldon Wilson1h 25m2013
For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. Now, the season to rejuvenate the tale will revive a town's darkest fears. With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, school teacher Aaron Harris is doling out punishment for six students serving detention. Their task: help Aaron's girlfriend Amanda fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend and Tyler takes macabre delight in recounting the tale: It never sleeps, it never dies, it can't be stopped, hear their cries.
Our read: Scarecrow (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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