DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW

Straw Power

Nick Setchfield

EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1981 | 15 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Frank De Felitta ▸ Cast Charles Durning, Tonya Crowe, Larry Drake, Jocelyn Brando BLU-RAY DEBUT Gorehounds be warned: this cult TV movie is an unlikely fit for 88 Films’ Slasher Classics Collection. But while it’s short on splatter, carnage and exposed entrails, it delivers on atmosphere and body count. When a smalltown vigilante mob mistakenly murders an innocent simpleton, retribution is unleashed, seemingly incarnated in the sinister figure of a scarecrow. This straw-stuffed spirit of vengeance trades in the deadly possibilities of threshing machines and combine harvesters rather than knives or chainsaws, and director Frank De Felitta stages the kills with impeccable restraint. It’s low-voltage horror, to be sure, with the unflashy look of fast-turnaround ’70s TV, but it…

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