Hallowed Ground (2007) (V)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

David Benullo

Writer (WGA):

David Benullo (written by)

Release Date:

9 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth. |

Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Preacher | Crow | Police Station | Attempted Murder

Cast

Jaimie Alexander	...	Liz Chambers
Brian McNamara	...	Sheriff O'Connor
Ethan Phillips	...	Preacher
Chloe Moretz	...	Sabrina (as Chloe Grace Moretz)
Ned Vaughn	...	Deputy Mark Simmons
Jim Cody Williams	...	Earl
Tamara Clatterbuck	...	Waitress
Nick Chinlund	...	Jonas Hathaway
Hudson Leick	...	Sarah Austin
Dan Warner	...	Officer Chandler
Randy Ross	...	Farmer
Steve Larkin	...	Mayor
Fred Meyers	...	Lanky Teenager
Time Winters	...	Victim
William Stanford Davis	...	Truck driver

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA (2009)

Company:

Daniel Grodnik Productions

Soundtrack:

Bonfire In The Sky

the previews looked so good.....

But of course, that's what previews are for, they're carefully edited to show only the best parts of the film and therefore suck(er) the potential viewer in. And even though I know better, that's exactly what happened to me.

What exactly is it about corn that seems to send people right off the deep end? It's never any other crops, like wheat, barley, rice...but corn seems to have the power to drive folks mad. So, there's the little town of Hope, somewhere in the Midwest, and there's Liz, whose car breaks down, conveniently, and who is forced to stay the night, waiting for a new oil pump. At the local diner, she meets Sarah, a tabloid reporter, who is there to do a story on one Jonas Hathaway, who was a preacher in the late 1800's who decided that screaming sinners nailed to crosses in the cornfields made the best scarecrows. This, until a little girl made it to the town of Liberty, and squealed on him, after which the good folks of Liberty dropped by to give him a taste of his own medicine. And he's supposedly buried in the cornfields.

So of course, Hathaway's restless soul is lurking about waiting to possess whomever, and Liz is unfortunate enough to have been chosen as his new bride. And, as usual, the town folks are all in on the joke, etc. etc. etc.

Lots of CGI crows for your viewing enjoyment, lots of tired plot devices for your boredom. And lots of reasons to avoid seeing this. 3 out of 10, but the previews looked DAMN good.