Scarecrows
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Scarecrows is a 1988 horror film.
Following their robbery of the Camp Pendleton pay-roll, a group of ex-military personnel escape on a plane to Mexico, and end up getting double-crossed by one of their own, who parachutes out of the plane with the money. The rest of the gang gives chase, and they all end up at some cornfields and a farmhouse where an extremely vicious and territorial group of scarecrows is prowling around.
Tropes used in Scarecrows include:
- Antagonist Title
- Body Horror
- Cruel and Unusual Death: One member's corpse is found stuffed with the heist money.
- Death by Materialism
- Demonic Possession
- Department of Redundancy Department: "I think this place is possessed by demonic demons." Immediately lampshaded.
- Don't Go in The Woods
- Evil Phone
- Eye Scream: Al the pilot loses an eye when barbed wire is wrapped around his head posthumously.
- Facial Horror
- Fingore: A zombified Bert has his fingers accidentally bitten off.
- Nothing Is Scarier: No explanation is offered as to why the scarecrows are alive, though some of the criminals have theories.
- The remaining pictures and belongings in the farmhouse suggests that the owners were dabbling in black magic, and after they died (or left the area) whatever spells they cast remained on the land.
- Off with His Head
- Rule of Scary: The film is more or less fueled by it.
- Scary Scarecrows: As should be apparent.