0:00 On Halloween night, a young man is walking alone through a cornfield when he is pursued by an unknown creature that makes frightening noises. After running for a few minutes, the boy decides to stop behind a bush to rest and ends up being captured by the monster. The following year, after driving continuously for several hours, Cassie and her two children finally arrive in Red Haven, a small town where they plan to live for the next few years. When he sees his new home, Finn is very excited as he realizes that he will be living in a much more spacious place than usual. Even though he knows he will no longer have to share a room with his brother, Sam regrets the move as he knows he will miss living in New York. While taking some boxes out of the trunk, Cassie is greeted enthusiastically by Sheriff Buckley and discovers that the Harvest Festival, a traditional town event, will take place
0:46 that night. At that moment, Becca, the sheriff's daughter, appears and tries to befriend Sam since they are the same age. But the boy shows no interest in socializing. So Buckley and his daughter decide to give the family some space to settle into their new home. And after unpacking, Finn convinces his younger brother to accompany him to the festival. In just 2 days, the boy will turn 18, so he tries to fulfill his role as the older brother and be the most responsible member of the family. Upon exiting the car, Sam spots a bizarre scarecrow hanging next to a fence and realizes that this place may be scarier than he imagined. While the sheriff shows his mother and brother the attractions, the boy decides to go off on his own to explore the place. And when he breaks into a barn, he comes across a rotten pumpkin on top of a rock. When he approaches to take a
1:31 closer look, Sam realizes that the vegetable has a scary face and quickly backs away. Convinced that what he just saw was just a figment of his imagination, the boy approaches again. And when he is about to touch the pumpkin, he is interrupted by the arrival of Mr. Palmer, who scolds him for snooping around his property. At that moment, Becca appears and reveals that she has been looking everywhere for Sam as he is new in town. When the pair finally managed to leave the barn, Becca advises the boy to stay away from Mr. Palmer as he is very strange. Every year, the old man grows an award-winning pumpkin to compete in the harvest festival, and he hates it when people come near his property. Seeing some people kneeling on the grass, thanking the heavens. Sam asks why they are doing that, and the girl explains that in 2003, Red Haven was perishing because no
2:17 crops were growing in that town. Until one day, Palmer did something that changed the course of things. And since then, every year, he grows the perfect crop. since that man made the town a lot of money. All the residents respect him and treat him like a god. Later, when Becca leaves with her father, Sam takes advantage of the moment when his mother and brother are talking to other towns people to take another look at that sinister pumpkin. After taking the keys from Mr. Palmer's jacket, the boy breaks into the barn again and grabs an axe to cut the roots that hold the prize pumpkin. As soon as the roots are cut, Sam hears a noise and runs away with the pumpkin to his house. A few hours later, upon arriving home, the boy realizes that the pumpkin he stole is rotten and gives up on carving it for Halloween. When he discovers that his brother secretly took the pumpkin from the farmer, Finn scolds his brother and
3:04 threatens to tell their mother. Later, when he enters the barn, Palmer realizes that his pumpkin is missing and becomes desperate. He immediately contacts the sheriff to report the theft, and during dinner, Cassie receives a visit from Buckley. At that moment, the sheriff reveals his suspicions about Sam, and the woman says she will return the pumpkin to the old man immediately. However, Buckley advises Sam to return what he stole because after everything Mr. Palmer has done for the people of that town, he deserves an apology. When he realizes that his brother is unwilling to apologize for what he did, Finn decides to go to the farm himself to return the pumpkin, but finds no one there. So, he walks to the barn to put the pumpkin back in its place. But when he opens his backpack, he realizes that the vegetable has turned into a boy's head. While paralyzed with fear, Finn
3:51 feels his body being pulled by the roots around the stone. And suddenly, the branches begin to invade his body. The next morning, Sam is awakened by his mother, who is excited because Halloween has finally arrived. Excited, the boy runs to Finn's room, but doesn't find his brother, so he decides to go out and look for him. At that moment, Becca appears and seeing the boy worried about his brother. She suggests that he may have gone out for a bike ride. However, when she finds out that Finn went to Palmer's farm the night before to return the pumpkin Sam stole, the girl begins to worry and Sam realizes that something is wrong. Frightened, the boy goes after his brother and finds his bike leaning against the fence surrounding the farm. After passing the scarecrow, Sam walks toward the barn and finds Mr. Palmer holding a gun. The old man then stops
4:37 the boy from trespassing on his property and orders him to leave. Terrified, Sam grabs his bike to leave, not even noticing that the scarecrow guarding the farm has suddenly disappeared. When he returns home, the boy tries to alert his mother about what happened and says that his brother may be in danger, but to his surprise, Cassie seems confused and says she only has one son. At that moment, Sam decides to ask the sheriff for help, but Buckley also claims not to know Finn. Desperate, the boy runs to get a photo of his brother, but he is the only one who can see Finn in the picture. When asked about the conversation they had earlier, Becca changes the subject and drags her friend into the backyard. When they are alone, she reveals that she believes Finn was captured by Mr. Palmer and claims that all the children in that town know someone who has disappeared. According to Becca, a few
5:24 years ago, a girl in her class simply disappeared, but no one filed a police report because the adults don't remember her existence. The only person in that girl's family who still remembered her was her older sister. However, when she turned 18, she also forgot. When she realizes that Sam is willing to confront the farmer to rescue his brother, Becca decides to support him in this mission and goes after Rusty to ask for help. The man lives in a trailer in the middle of the forest and points a crossbow at the intruders. At that moment, Becca recalls the day Rusty invaded the harvest festival a few years ago to warn the population about the disappearances, but no one listened to him. >> [music] >> and the man was expelled from the city. Hearing the plea for help from a boy who has just lost his brother, Rusty decides to help him and tells him that decades ago when Rehaven went bankrupt, most
6:11 people left town and those who stayed could barely survive. Then when Palmer brought fertility back to those soils, everyone began to idolize him. But the truth is that the city was cursed. Every year since then, the farmer sacrifices a young resident of the city. And by eating the harvest distributed each year during the festival, the adults end up forgetting the existence of the missing children. Unlike the other residents of the town, Rusty does not eat the vegetables grown in the town. For years, he has eaten only canned food, which prevents him from being contaminated by the curse. According to Rusty, Finn is still alive, but when the clock strikes midnight, the boy will be used as a sacrifice and forgotten forever. The man reveals that he discovered this story through a book that Palmer keeps under lock and key on his farm and claims that those pages must contain an explanation
6:58 of how to stop the curse. At that moment, Becca begins to think of a plan to break into the farm without the old man finding them. While Rusty distracts Palmer with a sudden phone call, the teenagers break into the house and split up to search for Finn. What the two young people don't realize is that the scarecrow used to protect the old man's crops has come to life and is on their trail. when he hangs out of the barn window to look for his brother. Sam sees disgusting slime dripping from his hand and looks up. At that moment, the boy comes face to face with a monster and decides to run away, but is pursued by the creature and runs away from the barn. Meanwhile, Becca searches the attic and finds a chest. After breaking the lock, the girl lifts the lid and finds several old items inside along with the book Rusty mentioned. Suddenly, the young woman hears the door slam and
7:44 realizes that Palmer has returned home. Frightened, she tries to sneak out, but the wooden floor begins to creek and the old man realizes that his house has been broken into. Hearing him climb the stairs, Becca rushes to hide. And when he sees his chest open, Palmer realizes what has happened. While the old man is distracted, the girl takes the opportunity to escape and runs away with the book in her hands. During her escape, Sam looks back and sees the scarecrow running toward her as if possessed. Terrified, the boy looks for a place to hide. And when he thinks he has managed to lose his enemy, the creature appears and grabs him by the neck, inhaling the dark smoke coming out of the monster's mouth. Sam is infected and about to be eliminated when Rusty appears and cuts off the monster's head with an ax. However, when the pair leaves, the monster starts moving again,
8:30 but they ignore it and go to find Becca. While trying to open the door, the girl realizes that she will not be able to reach the lock. So, she tries to find another way out. At that moment, she is surrounded by Palmer and ends up losing the book, but manages to leave the house and is found by her friends. When he realizes that Rusty is helping those young people, the old man tries to call him over to talk, but is completely ignored. Fearing that the trio has broken into his barn, Palmer goes there to check if his new pumpkin is in place and realizes that Finn's transformation is almost complete. When the trio is safe in the forest, Becca asks why Rusty was recognized by the farmer and is surprised to discover that he is Palmer's son. At that moment, the man takes an old photo out of his pocket and reveals that he had a younger sister named Lily. According to him, the girl
9:17 was the first young woman taken as a sacrifice. But Rusty believes that his father intended to sacrifice him in his sister's place. He was only 17 when the farmer found that book. And when he saw his father spending the whole night locked in the barn, Rusty became curious to know what he was doing. So during the early hours of the morning, he went to snoop around and came across a pulsating rock covered in roots and vines. Rusty's plan was to wait until the next morning to confront his father and ask him what it was. But then Lily appeared and suddenly the vines simply attacked her. While trying to help his sister free herself, Rusty was attacked by his own father and knocked unconscious after being hit on the head. The next morning when he woke up, he found his father devouring the fresh food that had sprouted on his farm overnight. And when asked about Lily, Palmer simply claimed
10:03 not to know who the girl was. For several weeks, Rusty continued to search for Lily and got into a big fight with his father, who accused him of disrespecting the miracle that had restored fertility to those lands. After that, Rusty left and tried to warn the population. But the town's people were so caught up in the curse that they labeled him crazy. However, this time with the help of Becca and Sam, Rusty has a new chance to fix things and clear his sister's name. At dusk, the young people dress up in Halloween costumes and use the pretext that they are going trick or treating to put their plan into action. However, Sheriff Buckley forbids his daughter from leaving the house that night, as he has learned from Palmer about the farm invasion. So, Becca convinces him to let Sam stay at their house so they can watch TV together. But her real plan is to wait until two young
10:48 people show up to trick or treat and bribe them to stay in her place. In exchange for the entire bowl of candy, the pair must stay on the couch watching movies so that Buckley doesn't realize his daughter has run away from home. After meeting Rusty at the agreed location, the two teenagers head to the farm and watch Palmer with binoculars. When he realizes that his father is sitting at the front door with a shotgun in his hands, Rusty begins the first stage of the plan and sets off some fireworks a few meters away from the farm to attract his attention. At that moment, Palmer calls the sheriff to ask where Becca and Sam are, so Buckley says they are watching TV. In an attempt to find out who is responsible for the fireworks, the farmer hangs up the phone and goes to investigate. When they realize the coast is clear, the teenagers break into the house and split up to search for the new hiding place
11:34 where Palmer kept his book. Upon finding the location of the fireworks, the farmer manages to destroy them, but ends up being hid by a tranquilizer dart fired by Rusty. At that moment, the man sees his father unconscious and ties him up so he can't escape when he wakes up. After searching every corner of the first floor of the house, Sam finds a door leading to the basement and goes down the stairs with Becca to investigate. At that moment, Sam's flashlight stops working and he sees the cursed book lying on the floor. When he bends down to pick it up, the boy comes face to face with the scarecrow and starts screaming. Seeing her friend being captured, Becca uses her slingshot to hit the monster and they run up the stairs with the intention of trapping him in the basement. The problem is that Sam couldn't get the book. So, they decide to lure the creature out. While
12:20 the teenagers hide, the monster searches the entire house for its prey. And when they realize their enemy is distracted, Becca and her friend return to the basement. When he finally manages to retrieve the book, Sam hears the scarecrow approaching and decides to set a trap to capture it. After going down the stairs, the monster opens the chest, expecting to find the children hiding inside, but ends up being pushed and locked inside the box. Knowing that the creature will be able to free itself at any moment, the two friends rush to the barn and find Finn about to turn into a pumpkin. In an attempt to find out how to break the curse, Becca begins to leaf through the book and they start reading the description of the spell called Reverso. At that moment, Finn begins to regain his human form and all the town's people are freed from oblivion. When his father wakes up, Rusty tries to remind
13:06 him about Lily, but the old man does not remember the existence of his own daughter and says that his son needs psychological help. Determined to avenge his sister, Rusty prepares to shoot. But seconds before pulling the trigger, he realizes that Palmer has remembered his daughter again. When her memory is restored, Cassie runs to the sheriff's house to ask for help. And when she sees her youngest son on the couch, she rushes to ask where Finn is. At that moment, the children's disguise is discovered. So Buckley says he will go out to look for them while Cassie stays home to welcome them if they return. While Palmer regrets having given up his daughter as a sacrifice, the scarecrow manages to free himself and Sam frees his brother. As soon as Finn's transformation is reversed, the vines steal the book from Becca's hands and she is unable to finish reading the
13:52 spell. Minutes after Bucker leaves the house, the phone starts ringing and Cassie answers the call hoping to receive some news about her children. However, to her surprise, she discovers that the police station is full of desperate parents looking for their children and she comes to the conclusion that Palmer is involved in all those disappearances. When he arrives at the farm and sees the vines approaching his daughter, the sheriff immediately tries to protect her. But the truth is that Buckler was responsible for initiating the curse. Upon regaining his memory, the farmer confesses to his son that the sheriff convinced him that the ritual would be safe and would help heal the land, believing that the book would bring a great blessing to the residents of Red Haven. Palmer fell for the sheriff's talk and without knowing it, ended up eliminating several young people. After handcuffing Becca, Buckler
14:37 takes his gun and orders Sam to stay away from the book. Upon hearing the shot, Rusty rushes to help the children while the sheriff explains why he agreed to the curse. His goal was to prevent the people of that town from continuing to suffer from hunger even though he knew the high price families would have to pay. After taking the book, Buckley delivers Sam as an offering. And as he watches the boy being dragged away, he tells how he tricked Palmer into believing he was participating in a miraculous spell. The old man believed he was growing a magic pumpkin every year, but Buckley always knew the truth, and it was he who attacked Rusty on the night Lily was sacrificed. When she discovers the truth, Becca feels deeply disappointed in her father. But Buckley assures her that as soon as she turns 18, all these memories will disappear. At that moment, the sheriff takes the
15:23 book to read the spell that will bring back the curse. And on his way to the barn, Rusty is attacked by the scarecrow. While trying to hit him with his father's shotgun, the man is captured and is about to be eliminated by the evil smoke when Palmer appears and shoots the creature to save his son. After knocking down the old man, the monster tries to eliminate him with its smoke, but is interrupted once again by Cassie's arrival. While reading the spell, Finn regains consciousness and seeing his brother in danger, he attacks the sheriff. While the two begin a physical fight, Becca recovers the book and reads the reverse spell. After knocking Buckley out with a blow, Finn hears his mother screams and runs to help her. However, as soon as Becca finishes reading, the evil spirit inhabiting the scarecrow's body is released, and all the vegetables that had been growing healthily on that farm
16:10 rod. At that moment, the vines pull the book into the rock and disappear shortly after a small explosion. A few minutes after midnight, Cassie has the chance to hug her son and is relieved to know that he is okay. That day, the boy is turning 18. And when he sees his younger brother, neither he nor his mother recognize him. At that moment, Becca explains that Sam was still under the influence of the vine when the clock struck midnight. And because of that, his family cannot remember him. Desperate, the boy starts looking for the book, but soon realizes that it has disappeared, and he has to live with the fact that his family will no longer remember him. Luckily, Sam has the support of Rusty and Becca, who, like him, no longer have any support from their parents. So, what did you think of this movie? Leave it in the comments. below. And if you like the video, like
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