Rise of the Scarecrows (2009)
DIRECTED BY: Geno McGahee
REVIEWED BY: Mario Dominick
Officer Brown, a black big city cop moves into the small town of Adams, Massachusetts to get out of a high crime environment and find a more peaceful place to live while fighting crime on a smaller scale. But as it turns out, Adams is a town with a dark secret making it a place with an appearance that gives one a false sense of security. It appears that scarecrows in a field on the outskirts of town are in cahoots with the undead and people are disappearing and turning up brutally slain. A couple kids passing through town having car trouble along with Officer Brown try to tell the town’s sheriff that something is not right and that people are being killed, but the sheriff has a disturbingly nonchalant attitude towards the whole situation leading Brown and the kids to believe something far more sinister is going on. Can they unravel the mystery behind the killer scarecrows and blow the lid off the conspiracy once and for all?
Rise of the Scarecrows is Geno McGahee and X Posse Productions’ second feature after Evil Awakening. While Evil Awakening is the more campy and humorous one of the two, Scarecrows has a slightly better constructed story with more interesting characters and twists that arise throughout. It shows that Geno and X Posse are coming along in certain areas of movie making with each feature and that they actually learn as they go along.
The X Posse DVD of Rise of the Scarecrows contains a director’s commentary and trailers for Scarecrows and Evil Awakening.
The next feature on the release slate from X Posse is a horror anthology called Scary Tales. After that, they’re next production is a movie called Family Secret. It will be interesting to see what those two will bring. In the meantime, visit X Posse online at www.xposse.com for info on their movies and where to purchase their product.
this is without a doubt
the worst film i have ever seen.
it must have been made intentionally that way.
no filmmaker could possibly be this bad.
a zero.
Painful would be too kind of a word to explain this garbage. In no way can this be classified as a movie being that there’s zero plot, zero acting, and zero scares. How is this available to the public?
This movie has a great story. That is where the good points end. This movie has the worst acting I have ever seen. It is horrible. The death scenes are worse. Overall this is without a doubt one of the 5 worst movies ever. But, you have to watch it to see the corny scenes. Please watch 1 time.
Looks like I'm the only person who likes it. LOL!
Of course, the acting and FX aren't the best, but Geno and the gang made it with hardly any money. You can't go into it expecting Citizen Kane. It was clearly made by genre fans who are enthusiastic about their work and obviously knew they weren't making something that would be Oscar-worthy material.
Just my thoughts.
Terrible is too iind of a word