The story involves a teacher taking a bunch of trouble teens to a farmhouse, where there is a legend about a killer scarecrow. The film suffers from lazy writing, the kind many a horror flick falls victim to. An old legend that no one believes- check, cell phones don't work- check, troubled, sex-crazed teens- check, truck won't start- check, etc. My favorite part was when five of the characters were knocked unconscious at the same time, and awoke a few hours later, all at the same time. The characters don't act realistically at all. They behave irrationally and many times when they are being chased, they take their time and frequently pause to assess the situation. The movie also doesn't explain many things about its plot.
There is a lot of overacting in the cast, although, Lacey Chabert and a couple of the others in the cast do a fairly good job. The creature is not a typical scarecrow. It is created using Syfy's typical "discount" CGI.
I did like some of the locations, particularly, the boat graveyard. In summary, it was an adequate movie, just a typical straight forward kill the teens movie. I would give it 2 out of 5 stars.
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