Title: Husk Directed by: Brett Simmons Starring: Devon Graye, Wes Chatham and C.J. Thomason Running time: 83 minutes – Rated R A group of friends traveling on a private road near a massive cornfield get forced off the road by a murder of suicidal crows. They look for help at the only farmhouse in the area where they discover some supernatural force had caused them to be there. There are several things that made this movie a bit of a cliché: One of the character’s names is Johnny, an emotionally disturbed girl, a jock, a guy who can’t see without his glasses and an angst-y emo; add all those to…

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Devon Graye (Showtime’s “Dexter”) will star alongside CJ Thomason , Tammin Sursok, and Wes Chatham in the horror film “Husk” from After Dark Films/Lionsgate. Brett Simmons, who is directing the project, also wrote the script. “Husk” is based on Simmons’ short film that played at Sundance in 2005. The story finds a group of friends who end up stranded in an isolated farmland where they discover that the crow-infested cornfields all around them are inhabited by reanimated human scarecrows, intent on making the group join their ranks. Filming has already begun in Iowa. Courtney Solomon, Stephanie Caleb, Moshe Diamant and Limor Diamant are producing…