Husk
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 04:11PM ;)
Over the years we have been subjected to a variety of scarecrow films. These straw stuffed funny faced clowns have been used by film makers to try and make the average and usually very fucking stupid film watcher shit their pants with fear. Sadly I can safely say that the success rate is to say the fucking least fucking appalling. If any of you have seen the 2002 classic Scarecrow they will know what I mean by this. Scarecrow was a film so terrifying that even kittens turned away in fear. Obviously you can by now sense my fucking sarcastic tone. The other issue for me is that I'm English so my general knowledge of scarecrows is the 1979 TV series Worzel Gummidge and believe me if you haven't witnessed that little beauty then you haven't fucking lived. Still being fucking sarcastic by the way. The question is would Husk change my rather beleaguered view of these field protecting, crow scaring, badly dressed idiots?
Husk is from the After Dark studio who release series of horror flicks throughout the year and are known for their Horrorfest films but they also do After Dark Originals of which Husk is one. As is standerd with modern horror we need a small gang of completely dislikable characters of which we can enjoy being killed one by one and generally doing stupid things in their quest for survival. As a horror fan I have often pondered what it is about severe situations that makes people fucking stupid. Would we really react with all the brains of a snail when presented with our own survival? However in the defence of this if the fuckers were genuine we would have a shit film in which our chainsaw/axe/knife weilding mask wearing/horrifically scarred psycho would die in the first ten so god fucking bless horror films and stupid people. Anyway back to Husk. Our five ready to die volunteers crash their car into a ditch next to a cornfield after a murder of crows attacks their car. As always they spot a house in the distance which of course they decide to head for.
Not through the cornfield I hear you scream. Yes thats right through the cornfield or maize as our friends across the pond would say and it sparks a shit load of fucking mayhem for them I can tell you. Within said field lurks an evil that is prepared to stop at nothing to kill each and every one. Nobody knows why this is happening and it is the nerdy one in the group who starts to figure out the back story. Now this is what I mean by fucking dumb. They soon discover that the scarecrow (well it's actually scarecrows) can't leave the field. Now I'm no fucking genius but surely you'd stay out of the fucking field but maybe that's just me. To be fair Husk is actually good fun and my grumblings about dumb horror victims is across the board. They are dumb but if they weren't we'd have no horror and even parodies of the genre like Scream show this.
Gripes aside Husk is probably the best scarecrow film out there. If you're feint of heart you will no doubt jump at the scarecrows and their sack faces and there is enough back story to make it reasonably interesting. I won't lie I actually thought this would be fucking shit but was surprised and even shocked by some of it. It gave me a break from in your face "torture porn" and was almost like a pretty good 80's horror. In the light of day Husk won't win a million awards but it's not meant to but it did entertain and believe me it usually takes six naked fat ladies and a paddling pool full of baby oil to do that. So if you're fucked off with Saw etc then why not indulge? You could do alot fucking worse.
A Pretty Tasty Corndog out of 5
Reader Comments (3)
Nice one DM!
Why thankyou Mr G. I enjoyed writing this one.
Cool fucking review and the sack-face reference did it for me. I know all scarecrow/cornfield movies have been shit and probably will always be shit, but when you're in the mood to see dumbass teens bite it, it's the way to go.