Scarecrow Gone Wild starts as high school teenager Mike (David Zelina) & his mates decide to to give a 'hazing' to wimpish diabetic Sam (Caleb Roehrig) as an initiation of some sort. Mike & his mate decide to take Sam to a corn field, tie him to a cross next to a freaky looking scarecrow & leave him there all night, sounds like fun right? Well, things backfire when Sam goes into a diabetic coma after suffering from a hypo & the vengeful spirit of Sam passes into the scarecrow which comes to life & starts to hunt down the kids responsible for Sam's unfortunate life-threatening predicament. Can Sam's best mate Jack (Matthew Linhardt) & his girlfriend Beth (Samantha Aisling) save the day & Sam's life?Written & directed by Brian Katkin Scarecrow Gone Wild is the third straight-to-video entry in the Scarecrow series & while I haven't seen either of the previous two after seeing Scarecrow Gone Wild I'm certainly in no hurry to change that situation that's for sure. The script actually has an almost decent premise as the wronged soul of Sam seeks revenge & his friends have to keep the real Sam alive somehow but the way it is told is poor & I suppose that basically it's just an irrelevance to the fact that this is a film about a killer scarecrow running around killing people in not very gory or imaginative ways. Having said that there are one or two scenes here which save it from a one star rating, the fart gag in the corn field is funny & something a lot of immature blokes might do (like me), the bit when two guys bury their mate in the sand & then stand over him & pee on him is also rather funny in a laddish juvenile way & a cool bit when some guy starts singing an awful song so the scarecrow throws a pole which impales him! However these OK bits are few & far between & as a whole it's a silly, boring, poorly written teen slasher film with highly annoying character's who irritate. It' also very predictable & has a stupid twist ending which doesn't really feature the scarecrow at all which is a problem as when you watch a film called Scarecrow Gone Wild you expect to see a scarecrow go wild & I have to admit he looks quite cool as horror character's go.Director Katkin does a reasonable job here actually although what on Earth is up with that hospital at the end & all that neon lighting everywhere & the fact there is only one patient there & two members of staff? The cinematography is much better than the usual straight-to-video low budget horror film of late & there's some nice, if totally unrealistic, lighting. The film lacks any real scares or tension & some of the medical terminology used throughout is a bit iffy to say the least & I say that as an insulin dependant diabetic myself. There's not much gore here, there's a couple of scenes where some actor has some fake guts placed on their stomach to represent them being gutted but it looks pretty fake, there's also a burned face & a couple of impalement's but little else. There's a fair amount of naked female breasts on show if that's your thing.Technically Scarecrow Gone Wild is pretty good considering some of the low budget abominations I've sat through recently, unfortunately it's still a poor film overall. The least said about the acting the better.Scarecrow Gone Wild isn't as bad as some of the straight-to-video horror crap that's been turning up recently but having said that it's not that much better & it's still a bad film when all said & done. Not recommended, the two previous entries are Scarecrow (2002) & Scarecrow Slayer (2003) both of which also went straight-to-video.

"Scarecrow Gone Wild" is an okay if unspectacular killer scarecrow film.**SPOILERS**Mike, (David Zelina) and his baseball teammates decide to change traditional and move their hazing ritual from a corn-fields to a beach. Jack, (Matthew Linhardt) the team captain and his girlfriend Beth, (Samantha Aisling) decide against the ritual, and when one of the stunts goes wrong, one of the guys is seriously injured. Jack and Beth are forced to come out to help, with the rest of the team partying on the beach unaware. When they start going missing, a local legend about a scarecrow is blamed. Thinking it to be nothing more than just a legend, they laugh it off until the scarecrow does come for them.The Good News: This is the third film in a trilogy that hardly anyone knew existed, and as such, it isn't all that terrible. The amount of cheese on display is quite large, and it ranks as one of the cheesiest movies made. A killer scarecrow stalking a group of college students on a secluded beach is the quintessential cheese plot, and this film delivers it in spades. There is really no end to it on display here, and it would take forever to analyze the ingredients involved in the film that makes it cheesy. Besides that, there were a few things of note in it. The film, ever now and then, was actually pretty suspenseful. The fact that every time the creature was about to attack he unleashed a creepy whistling tune gave some chills once it was established. It didn't help that the whistle was creepy to begin with. It's got a really unnerving quality to it. The sequences at the end at the hospital are also pretty creepy. It had a hint of the Gothic in the long hallway, the flashing lights, and the slow walk down the hallway bu a character dressed in white. It's a minor touch that really works well. There is a pretty big body count for a film of it's kind, and we get some okay deaths. The best scene is the death with the tent pole, as it comes across as a scene to watch, and the payoff is quite good.The Bad News: The amount of cheese on display is quite large, and it ranks as one of the cheesiest movies made. A killer scarecrow stalking a group of college students on a secluded beach is the quintessential cheese plot, and this film delivers it in spades. There is really no end to it on display here, and it would take forever to analyze the ingredients involved in the film that makes it cheesy. This could be taken anyway you choose to. It's an either/or situation: either you like it because of the cheese or not. It's also a film where you have to suspend a giant amount of disbelief to believe in the story that it could almost be said that it's nearly impossible to do so. Plot holes are very frequent, so it's a frustrating watch if you can spot them easily. Some of the deaths are just so beyond badly realized that it could border on the frustrating if that turns you off. Only one death is realized in semi-realistic fashion, and it ranges from the oh-so-obvious to the it-wouldn't-look-like-that-in-real-life reactions, and it's not the kind of responses in a horror film, despite the cheesiness in this one.The Final Verdict: While it's not the worst killer scarecrow film, it's not the best one either. It's got it's moments, but yet there are times when it could've been something more. See it if you like cheap, B-grade horror films, but if you don't enjoy those kinds of films, then start somewhere else.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and some drug use

This an extremely horrible movie. And if your thinking you've seen another horrible movie, exactly like this one before, you probably have. You probably saw Scarecrow 2 made in 2003. Yes thats what I said, Brian (the director) stole the movie idea. And not only did he steal it, he actually might have been able to make it worse. I bet the even the actors were scared to tell people they were actually in the movie. Also I have to mention that the director was trying to make up for the cheesiness by showing as much tits as possible. Also the kissing scenes were put together like a porn movie. In fact that is probably all that the director has ever seen, and tried to put together a decent movie, which will never work.

Wow! Here comes another straight-to-video scarecrow movie to keep the cinematic masochists happy. If the cheap-looking opening credits don't tell you you're in for quite a ride, then the diabolically tragic "writing" sure will.A diabetic kid gets tied on to a legendary scarecrow as part of his initiation onto the baseball team. Then the scarecrow goes nuts and starts offing people. Need I say more? This movie consists greatly of cheap effects that makes it look like it was edited with iMovie (note that spooky color inversion) and actors who apparently weren't good enough to show up on some late-night Cinemax special. Actually, thats not fair, as the actors didn't have much room to work around the abysmal script. Parts of this movie really seem like parody, especially when one character picks up his guitar and starts playing the worst song ever conceived by humans, with the worst lip-synching ever performed to go along with it. The "gore" here is also a major disappointment. In most B-movies such as this, there is a thick layer of cheap gore FX to make up for what the story and acting lacks. Here, the stuff is so cheap that it's not even fun. This movie actually makes "Jack Frost 2" look like lots of fun in comparison.If you think this movie is the "worst one you've ever seen" then you probably haven't gotten deep into the world of straight-to-video B-horror. Regardless, this movie will cause you a great deal of mental anguish, no matter what your background.