Looking at the cover of Hallowed Ground, you think to yourself, do we really need another movie about a killer scarecrow? I mean honestly, hasn't this been done several times before, and never successfully? Luckily, the cover art is deceiving. Hallowed Ground centers on a young woman, Liz Chambers (Jaimie Alexander, Rest Stop), whose car breaks down in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Granted, we have no clue what she's running away from, only that she left the city quickly. It seems like she's trying to run away from life. Anyway, she finds out her car is going to take until the next day to fix, so she goes to the local diner to get some food. All the people there just stare at her, like she's something odd.

You think the townspeople are staring at her because she's the only outsider in town, but coincidentally there's a reporter from the city there also. The reporter, Sarah, (Hudson Leick) tells Liz all about the town's sordid past and the preacher who vowed he would return. She's there to write a story on him and invites Liz to go with her to check out an old farmhouse where the preacher lived. Now personally I'm not sure it's believable that Liz would just hop in a car with a reporter she just met five minutes before, but I guess it beat boredom. Consider that all this has happened in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie.

Hallowed Ground does not waste time getting to the action. The killing starts very early and the action does not let up until the end of the movie. The very few good guys are likeable, other than the very bad pun of "I hope it's not bird flu. I hear it's un-tweetable." I think I could have done without that line, personally. The bad guys are typical of horror movie bad guys. They're not the brightest bunch, but they can be dangerous. The sheriff (Brian McNamara) does a good job in his role. We debated back and forth whether he was really trying to help Liz or not. Jaimie Alexander is great in the role of Liz. Her character was believable. At times Liz was helpless, but then she would get her act together and keep going.

The sound effects can be quite creepy at times. The sound of a pitchfork scraping against glass was unnerving to me. There wasn't much in the way of special effects, which I think is good in a horror. If you put in too many fake-looking characters, it seems unreal. On the whole, Hallowed Ground is a decent horror movie. Some of the plotline was a little unbelievable; sometimes we were confused as to what was going on, but in the end, it was enjoyable.