One way to get kids to do something is to tell them not to do it - so in The Fields young Steven repeatedly enters the cornfield and just once ventures into the abandoned fairground despite grandma saying not to. Is that scary? - not especially. As a child i would have found living among this bunch of oddball hillbillies more frightening. Echoed voice effects and brooding music promise something - nothing and i literally mean nothing is delivered.
When we enter the park it reminded me of the dreadful Tobe Hooper Funhouse - no don't go there - too late. As others have commented on the pace is flat lined and the acting beyond terrible. The young boys haircut looks like a cornfield. Marketed as such this is NOT a horror movie - the deceptive UK DVD cover shows two hooded figures, one brandishing a scythe, in the cornfield outside the house. Cool but wait - this does not reflect anything that actually occurs in the movie.
A glimpse of the protagonists is shown earlier in the movie before the final 20 minutes. This is so brief that the film makers felt the need to include the old chestnut of an explanatory news radio broadcast to avoid any head scratching come the credits - if you make it that far.
Absolute garbage.
When we enter the park it reminded me of the dreadful Tobe Hooper Funhouse - no don't go there - too late. As others have commented on the pace is flat lined and the acting beyond terrible. The young boys haircut looks like a cornfield. Marketed as such this is NOT a horror movie - the deceptive UK DVD cover shows two hooded figures, one brandishing a scythe, in the cornfield outside the house. Cool but wait - this does not reflect anything that actually occurs in the movie.
A glimpse of the protagonists is shown earlier in the movie before the final 20 minutes. This is so brief that the film makers felt the need to include the old chestnut of an explanatory news radio broadcast to avoid any head scratching come the credits - if you make it that far.
Absolute garbage.