Husk (2011)

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Written and directed by Brett Simmons.  Starring CJ Thomason, Devon Graye, Tammin Sursok, Ben Easter and Wes Chatham.

Plot: a group of friends become stranded at a desolate farmhouse in the middle of a cornfield and are soon hunted by scarecrows.

I love horror movies.  Always have. Probably always will.  But I can admit that sometimes when we watch certain horror movies we end up with more questions than answers.  Sadly, this was one of those movies.

Some of those questions, for example, were: Why were there nails in their fingers? Why didn’t they try destroying the sewing machine? Why did they keep splitting up? Why when she said “I think that scarecrow is a person” did he not check to see if it, in fact, was a person?  And why didn’t they just try to take off all the scarecrow’s masks since it seemed to incapacitate them?

CJ Thomason!

So you may understand me more fully, I’ll give you some of the story. It opens with Chris (Thomason), Johnny (Easter), Scott (Graye), Brian (Chatham) and Brian’s girlfriend, Natalie (Sursok), driving through Nebraska. They end up crashing and it knocks them all out. When they wake up, Johnny has mysteriously vanished. They go out to look for him in a nearby cornfield and, of course, things go wrong pretty quickly.

The friends find an abandoned house, begin hallucinating, are lured into a strange sewing room and get attacked by scarecrows. They eventually learn that there was a murder on the property and that possession is playing a role in their circumstance. They all try to survive, but SPOILER ALERT, it doesn’t work. Maybe if they’d worked together beforehand their chances would have been better. Maybe if they tried harder to survive they would have made it.

CJ again. Cause I can. So cute.

It’s an unrealistic film and the story behind the scarecrows is crap. I wouldn’t say I hated it though. The acting was decent and there were good special effects. Also, I got to watch CJ Thomason run around for a while and he’s very attractive. Still, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they also happen to like CJ Thomason.

Our score: 30.

Published by TaraRomero

I suppose I could list my favorite movies here, but instead I'll give you a strange glimpse into what makes me TaraRomero. 1. My favorite place in the world is Atlantic City. The food, the smells, the beach - I love it all. 2. I am particularly good at crafting. Especially scrapbooking and cross-stitch. 3. I am mixed. My dad is black and my mom is white. I'm very proud of both sides of myself. 4. My favorite food is either the cheesesteak or the hoagie. Not the sub, not the grinder, the hoagie. Totally different experience. 5. I have a number of pen pals I write snail mail to. We exchange stickers and little gifts sometimes, too. I have an extensive sticker collection. 6. I just reconnected with my father after 15+ years. It's going great so far. I've missed him. 7. My brother is my best friend, hence the reason we do this together. 8. I don't have a favorite book. I like too many to have a favorite. But Paul Zindel is my favorite author. Stephen King and Jane Austen are close seconds. I know, eclectic. 9. I'm not very religious at all. I consider myself agnostic. 10. I would say that my most prized possessions are my dogs, but I don't consider them possessions. I consider them people. They are my people.

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