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Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Michael David Simms
- Curry
- (as Michael Simms)
Don Herbert
- Radio Newscast
- (voice)
Howard E. Haller
- Helicopter Pilot
- (voice)
- …
Dyanne DiRosario
- Kellie
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhile in post-production, the films producer Cami Winikoff and its director William Wesley were taking the film to LA to edit it, but they went to the wrong airport and missed their flight. That flight was Delta Air Lines Flight 191, which encountered a micro-burst upon landing in DFW and crashed, ultimately killing 137 of the 163 on board. The section of the plane they were to be sitting in had no survivors.
- GoofsWhen Bert watches Corbin jump from the plane through the night-vision goggles, it is obvious that it is daytime, despite the film taking place at nighttime.
- Crazy creditsIn the final credits the cast is listed in two sections: Crows and Scarecrows.
- Alternate versionsThere is an R-Rated Version and an Unrated Version of this film. The Unrated Version runs approx. four minutes longer than the R-Rated Version and features extended action and gore sequences that were trimmed for the R-Rated Version.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Silent Hunter (1995)
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Not many movies scare me, but this one...
Man, what a horror movie! The idea about killer scarecrows may turn a lot of people off by sounding cheezy, but this is talented filmmaking by people who knew what to do, and, best of all, what NOT to do. The dark, quiet, breezy cornfields of a deserted-looking rural area, with no one around for who knows how many miles, is served with some great creepy atmosphere. The music helps, with a lot of the soundtrack's more sedated moments being the creepiest of all. The gore and visual shocks are very detailed and well-done, but they are kept to a minimum for a lot of the running time. Still, as they say, when it rains, it pours! The acting is great, and the writers did the right thing when they knew NOT to try to give any explanation for how the killer scarecrows came to be other than as much as the characters can figure out (a cleverly vague theory about a family that had been living on the farm who were probably in league with Satan). A lot of great powers are wielded by the scarecrows, including the exact imitation of victims' voices and the ability to reanimate their victims for use to their own fiendish means. There is some humor, but it's character-to-character banter rather than any type of comedy. This is no goofy movie by any means. It really also creeped me out about how the scarecrows move with a sort of stealth, and silently run right up behind a character and off them in seconds, without warning. I had some serious trouble sleeping after this one, but that is a compliment. Not many movies have been able to do that with me, and even fewer are ones I still found enjoyable enough to search down in a used video store and shell out ten bucks to buy. I would only recommend the unrated version, but this is one of those movies that is hard to find in its rated version, so if you come across it, it will probably be unrated. Creepy, creepy stuff, the best way to describe this sadly overlooked masterpiece of horror cinema.
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- one4now4
- Oct 22, 2003
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- Budget
- $425,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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