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Can someone explain the plot? Maybe spoilers

posted 16 years ago by DarleneHamilton
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I just didn't get it? Were the three brothers the scarecrows? How did they get that way? I'm genuinely confused,

"Well if I'da known it was such a big deal to ya I'da asked you to let them kill me"

[–] RobsBottin 16 years ago

You're not alone, but if you watch carefully Wesley leaves a few subtle clues. The Fowlers practised devil worship, it's not clear how they became zombified scarecrows exactly, but my hunch is they sacrificed themselves and came back from the dead as, erm, Scarecrows!.....then again I could be clutching at straws......

[–] MichaelM24 14 years ago

The whole devil worship thing is funny, because it's mentioned by one character who has found no evidence of devil worship. It's almost like he just grabbed a random thought floating around inside his head or something. We never see any kind of evidence of such acts. There is that little altar thing at the end, but even that is rather generic looking and just as some candles on it. Nothing else to suggest specifically it was used in devil worshiping.

[–] metalion_sos 9 years ago

This movie was made during the satanic panic period, so anyone doing anything remotely unusual is clearly a devil worshipper.

[–] Pantstrovich 8 years ago

Yes, probably.

I was a kid in the 80's/early 90's and my parents were like that and freaking everything was linked to Satanism to them. It was nuts.

[–] DevastationBob-3 15 years ago

Don't feel too bad, the plot is horrible. The three brothers were scarecrows, why? Because it's spooky. Don't try and dig any deeper than that.

He asked us, "Be you angels?"
and we said, "NAY, we are but men," ROCK!

[–] stones78 15 years ago

spooky...lol. I almost fell asleep watching this "horror" film.

[–] alucardvenom 9 years ago

Don't feel too bad, the plot is horrible. The three brothers were scarecrows, why? Because it's spooky. Don't try and dig any deeper than that.

Well I usually hate spoon-feed movies and when they over-explain things (which seems to be the case with most of the movies past 2000), but this could really give a few hints on what's going on.

There was some mention of "devil worshiping", but it's basically just one line said by an offscreen character (read: offscreen usually means "not that important") so I'll assume it's "black magic" and the same way they reanimated other dead characters. Yet as far as I remember, the woman never got reanimated (scarecrows were interrupted while "stuffing" her), so there's probably some sort of a ritual involved which movie never explains.

[–] filmbuff-36 14 years ago

I think it was meant to take place on some sort of haunted ground. Whether the three brothers were devil worshipers or not, there was clearly something unnatural about the farm where the events were taking place. The scarecrows, for instance, didn't make the key to the truck magically appear when Bert was searching the house, nor did they make the truck run when it was later revealed to not have an engine.

Whatever evil thing was happening on that farm, the scarecrows were acting in service to it.

[–] Badlands1 13 years ago

I like Curry's character explaination the best, he said "maybe the MP's did kill us, cause why did our bullets hit them but they didn't hit us for all the shots they fired.. and this is our hell, cause we're already dead"
But it wouldn't explain Kelly's innocent father being killed, but I guess the movie needed more body counts..
This, or it's some sacred haunted ground, because whenever the scarecrows killed, their victims turned into zombies too.. or after they cut and stuffed them.. 7/10