If you own a failing farm, and you find a secret room in your barn with a scarecrow stuffed away inside, and your kid then claims it’s evil, do you put it up? Fuck no! You burn that bitch to the ground, salt the freaking earth, and move to the next God damn county, because […] […]
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Blood Harvest (1987)
Blood Harvest Jill Robinson, visiting her hometown from college, arrives in town to find her welcome anything but warm. The poor economy has caused the local bank to foreclose on several of the nearby farms, causing tension amongst the citizenry. The brunt of the backlash seems to be targeted at Jill’s father, whose job is […]
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow In a small, rural farming town, 36-year-old developmentally disabled Bubba Ritter is not the town’s favored son. The local postman, Otis Hazelrigg, in particular, seems to have it out for him, and has convinced himself and three other townsfolk that Bubba is dangerous and something needs to be done about […]
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Hack-O-Lantern (1988)
Hack-O-Lantern AKA: Halloween Night Young Tommy is particularly close to his grandfather, who dotes on him more than his other two siblings. But Tommy’s parents don’t like how fixated he is on their oldest son, and on Halloween night, after one too many unwanted visits, Tommy’s father decides to drive to his father in law’s […]
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Wanderer (2015)
A young backpacker runs out of water and asks if he can rent a room for the night at the remote farmhouse of a couple who live out in the middle of nowhere in the California desert. Everything’s fine until partway through dinner when seemingly innocent dinner conversation about happiness spirals into some very awkward […]
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