RISE OF THE SCARECROWS is an indescribably bad slice of rural horror, shot on video without wit, merit, or style. The story is about unseen killer scarecrows that go around and murder random strangers in the woods. The whole running time follows uninteresting and unimportant characters and a big and needless cast who add nothing to anything but are cheap to film and merely take up screen time. Add in an exploitative shower scene and you have the sum total of this film's ingredients.

This movie is perhaps the worst movie I've seen to date. I love B movie flicks but this was so poor. I couldn't get past the hour mark. I just couldn't. I watched in awe the entire time as the film got worse and worse. One example of how bad this movie is is when the dude hits his girlfriend/wife. How hard is is to stage a slap? Seriously as if the movie purposely went out of it's way to avoid any good filming or stage techniques. This film only gets 1 star due to the Old Redneck character. He was so over the top he made me laugh extremely hard all the way through his parts. The part were he his painting and goes into a massive rant made me laugh so hard, I couldn't stop giggling at the thought of it for days. It's just the fact it wasn't meant to be funny. Watch at your own risk.

I've seen a few low budget flicks over the years, but this was probably the lowest. It seemed to me that a couple of buddies got a hold of some low end cameras and decided, why not? The acting is, to put it nicely, HORRIBLE. Listen mother trucker, what's your issue? Writing? Not so much. I could sit back, close my eyes and see where the idea could possibly work, but it would have to be done by at least high school drama students who have been taught the basics of acting. I'm not even mentioning the production value, if you can call it that. I am being hard, I have never made a movie. Kudos to the effort and balls to do it. Not one that I could ever recommend, but then again I've never attempted to do it.

I actually bought this movie at a horror convention and maybe my low expectations is why I liked it so much, but it was really amusing to me. I like how the scarecrows aren't just in the movie from start to finish. You have to wait for them and sort of question if they really exist. There are some shaky moments and some bad acting for sure but it is a microbudget movie and I was thoroughly amused. I give it a B since everyone else likes to rank movies by grade. Could've been better with the gore and technique but I recommend it if you like low budget horror movies.