Scarecrows - An enjoyable eighties horror show

If you like horror films, the first thing you should check out is the year this was made: 1988. Therefore, don't go expecting the more `modern' look and feel of the horror genre. What you have here is a typical eighties supernatural slasher/horror film. There's big hair, poor dialogue and cheesy special effects (by today's standards, anyway - chances are they were thought to be pretty terrific in their day).

The film is about a group of robbers who steal a few million dollars then hijack a plane, taking the pilot and his daughter hostage in the process. However, one of the dastardly criminals (the British one, to be precise) doublecrosses his gang and parachutes out of the plane with all the money. Therefore the others force the pilot to land the plane and search for him. Guess who they meet? Some pretty nasty scarecrows who have first dibs on this particular field.

I have to say that I wasn't particularly taken with the acting on display, but the story (of what there is) rolls along quite nicely. Soon we have a `Night of the Living Dead style' standoff between the robbers and the scarecrows.

I think Scarecrows will always have an audience - mainly those who watched it first time round in the eighties and still have a feeling of nostalgia for it. By today's standards it's a bit tame, but still quite watchable if you're into that sort of thing (and can put up with some of the silly decisions the characters make in the third act).

6/10 May just keep you awake if Freddy Krueger was haunting your nights