Husk
Director: Brett Simmons
Writer: Brett Simmons
Cast: Devon Graye, Wes Chatham, C. J. Thomason, Tammin Sursok, Ben Easter

Plot:
The five friends Scott (Devon Graye), Brian (Wes Chatham), Natalie (Tammin Sursok), Chris (C. J. Thomason) and Johnny (Ben Easter) are on their way to a weekend retreat when they have an accident and are stranded next to a cornfield. Seeking help in a nearby farmhouse, they soon discover that there’s something else with them in the cornfield.

My first thought after seeing this film was that it must be the first film by Brett Simmons. But it’s actually his third, which makes things a little sad. It has its moments but those seem to be more of a coincidence.

There is one moment in particular that stands out where the camera pans slowly over a scarecrow in the cornfield and it seems that the scarecrow’s gaze is following you. That one shot would have been a good indicator for me that Simmons is talented but doesn’t yet know exactly how to use his talent. But as it’s his third film, he should have managed to wrangle more than one really good scene from it.

Even if it would have been a fight to get anything good from that script, no matter how talented a director you are. (But since he also wrote the script, I guess there’s nobody toblame but himself.) The dialogues were absolutely horrible and for a movie that barely has a plot anyway, he really managed to fill it with more holes than should be humanly possible. At least the acting skills of the cast fit the rest of the film and is equally sub-par.

Even though it’s nothing special, a good editor (and I’m thinking writing editor, not film editor) going over the script and mending a few of the plot holes could have saved the film. But as it is, the only saving grace it has is that it’s pretty short.

Plus, the pacing isn’t bad, so at least it doesn’t get boring. It just isn’t terribly engaging.

Summarising: Pretty run of the mill.