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There's nowhere to hide.
A small-town librarian is gifted the lost diary of a dead teenager, exposing long-buried secrets as a murderous scarecrow stalks the streets.
Scarecrow County
2019 Directed by John Oak Dalton
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Scarecrow County features an actor (using that term in the loosest sense possible, of course) who is so thickly caked in jaundiced flesh-tone makeup that I’m still not sure he’s not meant to be Frank Reynolds after he gets his busted face fixed by a mortician.
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“I’ve been thinking a lot about “Country Roads” today. Used to think I was too cool for John Denver. Now I know I was never cool enough.”
A marginal improvement over Mark Polonia-collaborator John Oak Dalton’s previous film, but still a bit of a mess. The writing consists almost entirely of phone calls between two characters, offering little in the way of onscreen action or dynamic scenes. The conversations themselves are long-winded and meandering. You’ll learn more about this town than you will the actual plot and origin of the scarecrow stalking it. There are characters and subplots that go nowhere in particular either, so it ends up being a slow, uninteresting piece of horror. The potential is there, and sometimes the cinematography is decent, but it’s lacking in a lot of key areas.
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• 2019 Horror — D Edward Ranks (36 / 37) -
Joey was my first love
This is awful. The low budget midwest thing makes me want to be more forgiving, but what the hell is that story in the end? The real scarecrow was the whole town’s guilt over a hate crime, they literally say it, but very little actual scarecrow screen time. Everyone is painted up like a ghost and that’s the only true scare
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Actual line of dialogue:
“We’re not your real daughters. You’re gay, dad. You have to have sex with women to have kids!”
To be fair, it’s one of the very few lines not delivered into a phone.
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Don't get me wrong, it's not great.
But I find something charming about these movies with weird normal person non actors, Tumblr references and absolutely no tension or gore in the kills.
Tries to marry a nostalgia haunted Stephen king esq melodrama with a very awful slasher. It features awkwardly theater esq staging and blocking not too dissimilar to HG Lewis' works and references to Fletcher Hank which made me very happy since I love Fletcher's work and haven't thought about it in ages.
Loved the awful gay plot twist.
God awful soundtrack. Among the worst ive heard. Competently played but dismal.
Again, two stars for trying. Points for effort. But really really bad. -
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