Review of Scarecrows (1988) by Justin A — 05 Oct 2013

I remembered liking it a lot more than I did this second time around. The characters are paper thin and the script is... well, there isn't much of a script. This is all about the make-up and special effects and they are actually pretty good at times.

Some of the sequences are laughable though (the grenade explosion outside the plane at the beginning and the final sequence that ends with the dog casually walking up and eating a mess were two "so bad they're funny" scenes).

I can see why I forgot most of this movie though, as there just isn't much to it. I remembered the looks of some of the zombies and scarecrows, but other than that there just isn't much to much to write about.

I didn't need to know why the scarecrows were alive and killing, but with such a thin plot at least give me interesting characters. Also, (and maybe I just misheard) the mercenaries/bank robbers stole $3 million, but have all this fancy equipment.

I'm sure $3 million is great to live off of, but for all those rifles and high tech gear, I imagine it wasn't cheap just to set up their plan. What exactly was their profit after costs? Yeah, it's just a movie, I know, but that tells you where my mind was at early in the movie when that's all I could think of.