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The ultimate in stark, shadowy terror.
Dark Night Of The Scarecrow comes across, at first, like a typical 70's "B" horror movie. One you would compare to a movie version of any of the scary "In Search Of..." [with Leonard Nimoy] weekly episodes shown at the same time of this movie's release. Even the music has that creepy similarity. Watching further with curiousity being the motivating factor, "Dark Night" becomes an edge-of-your-seat chiller that sets an uncomfortable and looming tone that leaves you shaken for the rest of the movie. It is one of the movies you stumble across and you find yourself calling your friends the next day to say, "You will not believe how good this movie is!" If Dark Night Of The Scarecrow were revamped with current stars and the latest technological wonders, it still wouldn't have the bleak and interesting look the 70's gave it.

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Still creepy after all these years.
I remember this coming out on TV when I was in the 4th grade. It was very scary to me then, but even though it's not so scary now that I'm older, it still holds up as a really good creepy movie. I also remember the next day at school every kid was talking about it. Good stuff.
It amazes me how great made for TV movies were back then. I recently found out that the classic thriller "Duel" was also made for television. Wow.
Dark Night of The Scarecrow is among my favorites in the classic horror genre. I also think this movie was even good enough to have been released in theaters. So, if you are a fan of creepiness, then this film should make you happy.

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A very interesting horror film
Bubba is a mentally handicapped adult who hangs around with a very young girl much to the disdain of the local mailman who is always talking about taking matters into his own hands with his backward redneck friends. When Bubba turns up on the girl's mothers doorstep with the youngster covered in blood, the mailman gathers his friends together for a lynching mob and they murder him in a scene involving a scarecrow. Later they learn that Bubba was innocent and are prosecuted for the slaying but manage to get themselves acquitted.

Then a strange scarecrow turns up in their field and slowly, one by one, they meet some form of a very nasty demise.

This film is a Whodunnit' and nearly everyone in town is suspect of murdering the men who go to all sorts of trouble to figure out who is trying to kill them. The whole film from start to finish is a very interesting murder mystery with its fair share of horror; however forget about the twist ending that some of you may have heard about. There is no real twist ending, it just sort of works out in a very eerie way that looks good, but do not expect much brain work involved. To tell the truth the ending may be a little disappointing for some but the whole film itself is done very well for a TV movie and that is why it earns five stars. This is far from a perfect movie but for the horror genre is leaps and bounds ahead of most. Well worth watching and very creepy.