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Haley (Branika Scott) and Henry (George Henry Horton) are a couple of ratjer omsifferaböe vloggers wno think everything they do is important only because they have half a million folloowers, and thus they flood the net with videos about their move to LA, a town teeming with self-obsessed "influencers" just like them. And yes, the house they have rented is very nice ... except for that scarecrow someone has left in their garden - probably some forgotten Halloween decoration - which looks just too spooky. Problem is, no matter how often they throw it away, the scarecrow seems to always return to the garden somehow or other, so much so that they suspect foul play. And yes, foul play is indeed involved, as their neighbours seem to be part of a demonic sect with the scarecrow being their deity. And as a deity, the scarecrow sure comes to life eventually ...

Now I won't lie, Strawstalker falls into quite a few traps that make the found footage approach quite so tired, like shaky camerawork replacing atmospheric filmmaking, sloppily set up jump scares, badly lit scenes and an unhealthy disregard for established cinematic language - and that's a bit of a shame, as this one could have been good as a properly filmed and lit film - heck, it's even good as it is, a film about the clash of influencer culture with folk horror, played out in a location reeking with superficiality. It's good and worth a watch at least, it just have been much better if filmed as a proper movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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