I bought this film from a CEX shop for £2 just so i would have something to watch on my new Bluray player. I was pleasantly surprisedIt is your usual group of teenagers on a rod trip who's car gets ran off the road. But when they discover a creepy looking house in the middle of a corn field they obviously go thinking they are safe. Oh how wrong they are.I found this film very entertaining and the flash backs into why the foes are there gives you some thinking time unlike some horrors that are just hack and slash and you have no idea why the foe is doing it.I would recommend you watch this, it may not be main stream but is well worth a watch.

This film just rocks and is simply brilliant. What's there not to like a group of kids in their early 20's on a trip in the middle of nowhere when all of a sudden dead birds fall from the sky and cause their car to break down next to a vast cornfield. I don't know about you but I AM IN and I mean all in with the director dealing all the right cards. What a great little back story on hand here which will creep out any avid horror fan. What I love about Husk is that it doesn't try to hard to be something that it is not. The story stays within its own parameters without trying to be too cute or cheesy for its own good. Yeah and can you say scarecrows with a purpose creating their own burlap sacks for the walking scarecrow dead. Fantastic stuff here and all tightly woven into a jam packed 80minutes of ominous and creepy horror.

I rarely rate a movie below 5 but this is an exception. If you are entertained by watching someone chew gum, this is the movie for you.Although the cinematography, lighting, and acting are professional, the script really sucked. I mean two jocks and a geek in a cornfield. Was this funded by mom and dad? Were those guys your best buddies, Brett?Little gore, no babes, lame boring script make this a Don't See. The movie could be used to bore criminals during interrogation so that they finally confess.The plot is simple: babe and three guys travel near a cornfield. They get stuck and have to enter the cornfield finding an old car, and a house. Kill off babe. Introduce a killer scarecrow and watch 3 guys run around in boring scene after boring scene. Have the cast hooked up to a sewing machine. Have the new scarecrow chase the others. Wrap up with pseudo plot about the past. Brett you and a few others have broken the cardinal rule on horror movies: you must have some BABES in sexy clothes in the movie !!!!! And they must be running around scared ! Otherwise you have an exercise in camera set up and lighting.The horror/scary wasn't near equal to other films like Wrong Turn, Saw, Evil Dead and a slew of others. Maybe this could have been a comedy, just add a few punch lines and some three stooges type stuff and presto! a movie. Even those Crocagator films have babes in them running around scared. These are popcorn and date movies so get on the clue bus if you ever do another film.

Okay, so "Husk" may not necessarily be the most intelligent or innovative horror flick in history, but I do shamelessly admit that I found it vastly entertaining! Why is that? For simple reasons, actually. First and foremost because it's a straightforward and incredibly fast-paced little film that doesn't waste any time on overlong introductions. I think it takes approximately, what, two or three minutes before the action and horror aspects kick in and the film remains eventful until the very last moments. I, for one, really appreciated that writer/director Brett Simmons didn't waste our time (and his own) on redundant character drawings, because they're mainly all just insufferable twenty-something idiots that are about to die in gruesome circumstances anyway. Secondly because, when the subject matter is handled right, scarecrows can be the scariest monsters in the horror genre. Admittedly it must be rather difficult for a scriptwriter to link a decent and plausible story to lifeless puppets made out of straw and discarded clothes, but the image of a scarecrow in the middle of a desolate field at night is so genuinely creepy! The background story that Brett Simmons gave to his scarecrows isn't exactly brilliant, but it's a neat attempt and you got to admit that they look mighty frightening. On their way to a secluded party, four high-school buddies and one supplementary girlfriend crash their car because – inexplicably – a whole swarm of kamikaze crows hammer themselves into the windshield. Across the cornfield, full of eerie scarecrows, they notice a ramshackle farmhouse and the two most courageous ones of the bunch head over there for help, as Johnny mysteriously vanished after the accident. The scarecrows come to life and there's seemingly no way to escape the cornfield. During their quest for survival, Scott gradually uncovers the horrible secret of the living scarecrows through unexplained supernatural visions. Yes indeed, the plot is full of holes, improbabilities and questions that remain unanswered. Quite frankly, this is one of those rare occasions where it didn't bother me too much, as "Husk" provides plentiful of creepy imagery, gore, atmosphere and adrenalin. Simmons makes the most out of a clearly shoestring budget and, most astounding of all, the cast of youngsters is actually very adequate. Director Simmons generates occasional moments of sheer suspense, while the players truly manage to appear terrified and desperate. And, perhaps just because the film didn't waste any initial time on fake and overlong introductions, the characters gradually even become amiable and identifiable. I think I can say for myself that I know horror… "Husk" is horror. And warmly recommended to all fans of the genre.