This is seemingly the third instalment of the 'Scarecrow' franchise. It's about a supernatural scarecrow killer who is re-animated as the result of a practical joke that goes horribly wrong. A boy is tied to a scarecrow in a corn-field by some bullies. He goes into a coma through shock and via his comatose state the scarecrow is able to possess him and kill the teenagers who tormented him. It's a story that vaguely makes sense but in fairness what can you really expect from a film called Scarecrow Gone Wild?It's very much a cheap and cheerful slasher movie aimed at the teen market. It doesn't take itself very seriously though, with some very silly scenes sprinkled throughout and some classic bad dialogue. Probably my favourite moment was when one teen decides to play one of his songs to the others on the beach one night. It's a suitably appalling ditty and it's ended by our friend the scarecrow pitching up and impaling him with the stand of a beach volleyball net. The film is pretty much a mix of horror, overwrought teen melodrama and dumb humour. While it's far from being good, it does have a certain goofy entertainment value for the most part.

I didn't give it 10 stars because it wasn't a good movie. I gave it 10 because it was hilarious of how bad it is. guts coming out of a guys belly is just ground beef.a pole going through a guy and coming out crooked the other way, a girl acting like shes getting punched by the killer and his fist was 3 feet away, choking a guy in 3 secs, going from night to early morning to night to early morning in the same scenes. also side scenes causing criminal mischief i recommend you rent it for comedy reasons. Funny funny funny i'm just typing to clear up the good lines, i also recommend dead and rotting and screaming dead for this kind of humor

So me and my friend are carousing our local movie rental store and are looking for something to pick up to go along with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so why not pick up the third installment in the Scarecrow series!?! Keep in mind that this is not just Scarecrow Three; this is, Scarecrow: Gone Wild. Now both of us had seen to the first two Scarecrows so we felt obligated to finish the job. Let's start with the cover of the DVD first. First we notice a picture of Ken Shamrock ("The World's Most Dangerous Man") on the cover. Apparently he was used to market the movie as the "lead actor". By the way, he has the least screen time of any member of the credited class. Next we notice a picture of a very attractive and very scantily clad woman in the middle ground of the cover. I can assure you that she is not in the movie....at all. At the time of rental we assumed that this was to reiterate the fact that the scarecrow was "going wild". In the background we noticed a large carnival on an island out in the ocean. I can also assure you that the carnival is also not in the movie...at all. Looking back me and my friend should have known something was up. I mean really, who the heck puts a carnival on an island. Now on to the actual movie. We start when a young man is inexplicably fused to a scarecrow in the middle of a corn field. Don't ask me how they were fused but think of when Brandon Lee waking up from the dead in The Crow. It's just that stupid. But in the scarecrow's defense, he has "gone wild". Anyhoo, the scarecrow, who now lives vicariously through the young man, takes a trip to his local beach to brutalize those who had done him wrong. Because yes, in the world of The Scarecrow, beaches are conveniently located in the same general vicinity as cornfields. To make a long story short the scarecrow kills all who stand in his path without any warning except for the scarecrow's trademark whistle that signals a slashing. This is however rather impossible to believe because the scarecrow's costume's mouth is clearly sewn shut. Several tracking shots that would make Kubrick roll over in his grave later, and we have one of the worst third installments in a series ever. Well except for maybe the third Matrix. As Joel Siegel would say, "This Scarecrow is wildly bad."

I knew I was in for a LONG 90 minutes when the opening voice over mispronounced the word 'scarecrow' (it sounded like Scare Crew). And sure enough 90 minutes later, after witnessing beyond horrid acting, tedious drama, scarecrow's punches going nowhere near their intended target, but "hitting" it anyway, Ken Shamrock "acting", and the most stupid illogical ending, I've seen in my life (Ok, no, I take that last one back, in about a week). After making it through all that, I openly weeped that I couldn't just go to Lacuna a la Jim Carrey and just erase it completely from my mind. Any thoughts I might have had that Director Brian Katkin might have made an OK film given the right circumstances that I had after watching "Slaughter Studios", are totally and completely gone from my mind now.My Grade: F Eye Candy: Tara Platt and Lisa Robert get topless Where I saw it: Starz on Demand (available until September 22nd, 2005)