The only possible saving grace to this would be one disemboweling scene that still manages to be awful but is an award winning effect when compared to the blood splatters after a girl is slapped or the mannequin decapitation. The story is bad, the dialogue is worse, the acting somehow manages to be even worse. It was amusing to laugh at the horrible line reading for a minute or two, but eventually it was too much to take and became unbearable. The "acting" (if you can call it that) was abysmal. I am a fan of independent cinema and have watched several low budget, shot-on-video productions that were still a worthy rental but this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Do not be suckered in by this! Granted, if you've seen Dark Harvest 1 or 2 than you already know what to expect with 3 but there is a place for movies like this and it is not on a video store shelf beside professionally-made features. Now we have Lions Gate getting into the mix, only they have decided that it'd be better to sucker in poor saps by putting a "professional" looking cover on it and charge the same price as one of their higher-budget, professionally made features. That's acceptable to me, because you could see these movies from a mile away with their shoddy box art and cheesy titles. It used to be that video distributors like Sub Rosa and Brain Damage Films would release low-budget, shot-on-video horror films to a select market of gorehounds that ate them up with glee. The story is awful, the sets are from a haunted Halloween put on by ADHD middle school students and once again the line reading (remember this is not acting anymore than sinking to the bottom of a pool is swimming) is distracting beyond mere words. The camera work is drunken father shooting vacation film quality and while the special effects are okay the scariest effect is the breast augmentation scars in the nude scene. This is a collection of deadbeat dads and strippers pretending to be in a movie between cans of Schlitz. The line reading (I refuse to call it acting) is uniformly awful. If you are familiar with Lionsgate's own version of Project Greenlight (This is where they buy a home movie but a fancy cover on it and sneak it into the horror section of your local Wal-Mart) you will not be surprised by the complete and utter lack of entertainment value contained within. Even on fast-forward (And you will be reaching for that fast forward button) it clocks in somewhere around eternity. (Or so I've heard) In other words this movie feels a lot longer that an hour and change. Dark Harvest 3: Scarecrow: 1 out of 10: In Einstein's theory of relativity time is of the perspective of the one that views time.
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