utgard14 Tired, predictable, and dull for stretches. It's never scary or suspenseful. The acting is weak, with Norman Reedus trying his best as the lead character but he's just woefully miscast here. He's about as believable as a farmer as he would be as the King of England. His son in the movie is played by an annoying child actor. Claire Holt plays his daughter in her movie debut. The role isn't great but she's fine in it. The wife character is terrible and there just to service a few clichés. So much of this feels I have seen it before in better movies. On the (very shallow) plus side, Darcy Fowers has a couple of very nice nude scenes. Hey, that's something, right?

atinder I was one few who really liked The Messengers (2007), I thought had some great moment, There were good remember scenes in that movie, the ghost come out of the wall was really creepy. I know this movie is meant to be prequel about total different story about evil Scarecrow,It' not connected to first movie at all. I have only seen one other scarecrow movie that was Jeepers Creepers, which is was much better and scary one. This was my second time I saw this movie, I did not remember much of first watch and I just saw this two days ago, it is very forgettable movie. I did not all plot of story was really dull, I did not find Scare crow scary at all.However I liked the little twist they had in the movie which I never saw coming, The ending of the movie felt way to rushed! Acting was decent from most of cast 3 out of 10

johannes2000-1 For the first part I actually liked this movie: it's entertaining, has a good pace and the acting of Norman Reedus and Heather Stephens is pretty good. We've seen some scarecrows in horror movies before and although they're all (supposedly) scary by nature, they made this one a real mean bugger to look at! The evil acts of the scarecrow are rather subtle in the beginning, apparently it drives other people to their death from afar, by inducing car-accidents and suicides (unfortunately out of our view). It does this out of some sort of commitment to the main character of the movie, farmer John Rollins, who found this old scarecrow hidden somewhere in his barn and puts it in his dilapidated cornfield (not knowing of course that the hideous thing is evil, although his psychic little son DID warn him!). Where the scarecrow comes from or why it's evil is never really revealed; we do see some strange ghost-like kids wander around, which suggests some prior doom lurking over this shabby farm, but we're never given any explanation. Not that it matters much, in the first part of this movie the horror elements seem to be less important then the psychological developments in farmer Rollins' mind, and the way his family, especially his wife, deals with them. Which by the way made for some fine involving scenes.In the second half of the movie there are some more gruesome details and we see vague images of the scarecrow dragging his scythe behind him. And there's a strange neighbour who gives some free advice-from-hell (and a free roll in the hay with his sexy wife to boot)to Rollins, who doggedly follows this advice and gets more and more into supernatural trouble! Still, up to this point, the movie was more atmospherically creepy then a real shocker. But unfortunately the producers wanted some grand finale, and all of a sudden the menacing scarecrow changes into a preposterously stumbling and shrieking live monster that has to be overpowered (in a surprisingly simple way) by the joint efforts of the whole family. Well, they all must have had a good laugh on the set while filming this epic battle! The final scene (one of the non-identified ghost-like kids gathers the remnants of the defeated scarecrow in a bag and hides them in a secluded corner of the barn) suggests an open ending, and since this movie seems to be a prequel to a prior movie "Messengers", it COULD have made sense, albeit not for me, who did not see this original movie. So what the connection between the two is I cannot say. Knowing the exploitation-routines regarding sequels and prequels, probably no connection whatsoever!

Michael O'Keefe Eerie and chilling is this story of John Rollins(Norman Reedus), a farmer with multiple problems soon to be taken care of supernaturally. John's corn crop is literally being eaten up by a legion of crows; the irrigation pump is broken and the bank wants to foreclose because of three missed payments. John doesn't even have the money to buy fertilizer or new seed. Rumaging in the barn an old hidden scarecrow is found and Rollins figures what the hell, it may scare away the crows. The next morning his cornfield is covered with dead crows. His pump begins pumping again and the banker meets an untimely death.Some disturbing images, a small amount of sex and violence prompts the PG17 rating. This supernatural blended horror flick is well worth viewing. Martin Barnewitz directs. The cast also includes: Heather Stephens, Richard Riehle, Darcy Fowers and Michael McCoy.