Once you go up, you’ll never come down. That’s the ominous warning splattered across the first poster for the truly horrific lookingScarecrows. We get a first look at this horror movie from Uncork’d Entertainment, with a harrowing trailer that will have you fleeing any future cornfield you’re unfortunate enough to come across.
Just becauseHalloween is overdoesn’t mean the horror madness has to stop. October isn’t the only time for enjoying the worst, most depraved stories Hollywood has to offer. This winter, we’ll be subject to agroup of high schoolersgetting crucified and tortured in the worst way possible. And it looks like a great bit of bone-tightening fun.
Teenagers are kidnapped and made into living scarecrows who are left todie in crop fieldsin an exceedingly frightening stoner-horror throwback in the vein ofJeepers CreepersandScream.Scarecrows, from director Stu Stone, rises from the cornfields 12/11 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
While on a hike to find a secret lagoon, a group of friends have no choice but to pass through an ominous cornfield. Unbeknownst to them, thefarm owner despises trespassersand has vowed to kill anyone who crosses his land by turning them into living scarecrows, leaving them to rot in his fields. Once one goes up… it never comes down.
Scarecrows, starring Hannah Gordon (Hurt), Mike Taylor (Pure) and Umed Amin (A Simple Favor) and co-written by Stone and Adam Rodness, premieres on VOD December 11 and DVD February 1 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Stu Stone has emerged from the new crop ofmillennial filmmakersintent on twisting the horror genre into something sick and surreal. He actually got his start as an actor, with more than 80 credits to his name. He made his debut way back in 1984 at just 4-years old, appearing in an episode ofThe Edison Twins. He made his big screen debut that same year in the cult favoriteHeavenly Bodies. Throughout the early 90s, he lent his voice to a number of animated TV series, and has gone onto appear in such hits asDonnie Darko,Joy Ride, andSorority Boys.
It wasn’t until 2016 that he got bit by the directing bug, making his first feature length horror comedy in 2016 withThe Haunted House on Kirby Road.Scarecrowsis his second feature. His third movieVanditsis already in pre-production.
Scarecrowslooks like a mad bit of terrifying fun. Who doesn’t want to see teens tortured and crucified in a cornfield? Uncork’d Entertainment brings us the first trailer and poster, surely it will be enough to entice you back this December to watch the horrors that await within.
