How does a movie this camp, one that went straight to video, make the top 5?
It’s a revenge thing, the poor sod. Lester Dwervick (TimYoung) is just this trailer park kid who has fuck all. Nobody likes him, then
gets murdered, and comes back for revenge. You’re kind of with him because they
all deserve to die, really. He spares his mum, even though she didn’t bother
going to his funeral. It’s nice that some revenge was had.
He did spare the girl too.
Tiffany Shepis’s Judy Patterson? In the end, yeah.
Eventually. In all fairness, she did stand up for him – but he did get it wrong
with her too.
The production quality isn’t as high as some of the
others we’ve seen…
No, it’s not but it still works well, and you don’t really need a high budget to make a movie like this work. The sound is good enough and it’s well lit. The acting isn’t great, maybe, but it’s not terrible, either. The Scarecrow was good.
Although… it would have been better if you hadn’t been
able to see the guy behind the mask… He spoke and laughed, which was
different from a lot of the other scarecrow movies we've seen.
I liked the way he spoke. It was comically sinister and kind of sarcastic. Like an old Batman villain.
Yeah, it was good.
The production quality makes me think that maybe it was
someone’s first attempt… like maybe it was a bit amateur.
It does have that feel. Actually, I think maybe it was
Emmanuel Itier’s (the director) second film… But, like you said, although it’s kind of
amateur, that doesn’t take away from your enjoyment of it.
What is your favourite moment of the movie?
My favourite moment was when Lester went after the guy who
killed him, his mom’s sleazy boyfriend. “Look what you made me do. I didn’t
mean to!” It was perfect that The Scarecrow (played by Todd Rex) mocked the drunk
with the same words that he used when he killed Lester. Have it back, bitch!
My only complaint was that it ended too soon. He should have
made him suffer a lot more.
That’s a little disturbing… but I can’t disagree.
What are your thoughts on the dialogue? Did it seem realistic
to you?
Well, I never went to an American school… and I never saw
anyone get so bullied at school but if I’d had to go through what that
poor kid did, I probably would have ended up a mass murderer too. They were so
horrible and so relentless for no apparent reason that it was no wonder he
snapped.
What did you think of the acting overall?
Tiffany Shepis has been in too much now to not be good. She
can’t be a bad actor, or she wouldn’t keep getting cast. Great tits can only
get you so far. She might be a b-movie actor, but she’s good at what she does.
Mind you… if the main character is a teenager, I’m Dutch –
but Hollywood always does that.
What did you think of the ending? Was it a good
resolution?
It was a great twist at the end. You’ve got Mitch, who was
telling the story all along, just watching his friends get murdered – or did he
lure them there? Maybe he was after some revenge of his own…
Either way, I worry about the people living in that town…
