Husk

Husk

Year: 2011

Runtime: 83 mins

Language: English

Director: Brett Simmons

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When a group of friends becomes stranded near an isolated cornfield, they seek refuge in a rundown farmhouse. Inside, they soon realize the house sits at the heart of a dark, supernatural ritual, turning their night of shelter into a battle for survival against an unseen, malevolent force.

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1

Crow attack and SUV crash

A flock of crows attacks their SUV on a rural Nebraska road, crashing the vehicle and knocking everyone unconscious. When they come to, Johnny is missing and the group must decide what to do next.

Rural Nebraska road
2

Search for Johnny begins

Natalie and Chris stay by the car while Brian and Scott venture into a cornfield to search for Johnny near a nearby farmhouse. The search is tense, with the group split and the sense that danger lurks nearby.

Cornfield and nearby farmhouse
3

Scarecrow clue appears

In the field, they discover a scarecrow mounted in a clearing and a rusted, derelict car whose windshield is smeared with crow carcasses. The unsettling finds hint at a malevolent force at work.

Cornfield clearing
4

Abandoned farmhouse looms

The group reaches a decaying farmhouse that seems abandoned, yet a light glows from an upstairs window. The eerie glow suggests somebody may still be inside.

Farmhouse
5

Natalie finds a gruesome clue

Natalie spots a young boy in the cornfield and chases him, only to stumble upon a foul-smelling scarecrow that hides human remains beneath its clothes. The discovery heightens the danger and horror they face.

Edge of cornfield
6

Undead Johnny and sewing room

Brian and Scott reach the lit upstairs room and find Johnny undead, sewing burlap pieces on an antique machine. The room goes dark just as Natalie's scream echoes from outside.

Upstairs sewing room, Farmhouse
7

Natalie attacked in the corn

Chris follows Natalie into the corn and witnesses her being attacked and dragged away, vanishing from sight. The danger closes in as the group loses track of her.

Cornfield
8

Natalie’s death and the scarecrow threat escalates

Brian discovers Natalie's lifeless body strung up in the clearing, and a strange force seems to enter her eyes. He then spots movement in the corn and tackles a seemingly murderous scarecrow, only to be knocked back by a second attacking scarecrow.

Cornfield clearing
9

House tensions and barn visions

Back at the house, Brian blames Chris for Natalie's death, and he and Scott leave Chris alone to search the yard for a way out. In the barn, Scott hallucinates a farmer abusing his teenage son (Corey) in front of his other son (Alex); Brian does not share this vision.

Barn and house
10

Sewing room lure and entrapment

The young boy Natalie saw lures Brian to the sewing room, where an undead Natalie begins to sew a scarecrow mask. Chris tries to leave but the door is stuck; Scott and Brian fail to open it, and Chris escapes through a window only to be knocked unconscious. Brian enters the sewing room and finds it empty.

Sewing room
11

Corey’s vision and the first real scarecrow attack

Scott hallucinates again, this time seeing Corey kill Alex in the cornfield and dress the body as a scarecrow, blood seeping into the ground. Scott wakes to a real scarecrow attacking him, but Brian arrives and smashes it with an axe, then helps Scott back to the house.

Cornfield / House
12

Final stand and tragic ending

In the cellar, Scott and Brian find Corey's remains with a shotgun, indicating Corey died by suicide. Chris hot-wires the truck and drives through the cornfield, but is attacked by several scarecrows; Brian saves him with Corey's shotgun, but is killed by Natalie's scarecrow when he cannot bring himself to shoot her. Alex possesses Brian, and Chris and Scott plan to burn the field; Chris fights off multiple scarecrows but is killed, and Scott escapes toward the road as a couple arrives at the SUV too late to help, with Alex lingering in the grass as the credits roll.

Cellar / Outside field

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