I am sucker for Scarecrows and especially Scarecrow flicks which I feel there clearly aren't enough of.So I saw this dvd which was from the After Dark 2011 lineup and saw that it featured Scarecrows so of course I purchased it.Seeing as the After Dark Films themselves have mostly been forgettable,I didn't have much expectations going in.So how is it??
Well the first act has your basic horror movie setup we've seen countless times.A group of five teenagers crash their car in the middle of nowhere surrounded by cornfields and are stranded there with no cell service.To make matters worse one of them is missing.That leaves 3 guys,Brian,Scott and Chris,and one girl Natalie....to wander through these massive cornfields.Soon Natalie goes missing and they find a creepy isolated and apparently abandoned farmhouse harboring some dark secrets.
Like I mentioned earlier,once Husk gets past the generic set up it does offer some interesting ideas.One being that the characters are safe in the farmhouse,kind of like a base,but susceptible for the prey of evil scarecrows once they enter the cornfields.Turns out these scarecrows build their own burlap army with their victims.
The other interesting idea is director Brett Simmons actually attempts to create a decent back-story and does so with flashbacks while the action is occurring.
The acting was decent for a straight to dvd horror movie and Natalie(Tammin Sursok) was pretty damn cute.
So... Husk has some creepy images but nothing that actually happened was really disturbing.Too much has been seen and done before and too much of it a bit dull.All in all its a good late night time waster.
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