Stuffed with straw, dressed in rags and left to twist in the breeze, the typical mild-mannered scarecrow may not be built to frighten anything larger than your average feathered pest... but that hasn't stopped these eerie effigies from coming to life in our nightmares. For generations, this image of the harvest has been associated with the darker, colder days to come, so it wasn't long before spooky tales were being spun about evil scarecrows wandering the fields, intent on reaping something more substantial than corn. Cinematic scarecrows have come a long way since the lovable Wizard of Oz character, but some of them might still be looking for a brain... maybe even the one that's still in your skull. Let's look at some of the all-time scariest movie scarecrows ever to stalk the fields by moonlight... “Bubba” (Dark Night of the Scarecrow, 1981) This chilling made-for-tv classic presents one of the...
- 3/13/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Generally speaking, the After Dark series of horror efforts hasn’t impressed me much over the years, though I find myself indulging in their wonky offerings time and time again. The latest batch of fright flicks bearing the familiar logo is looming on the horizon, and Bloody Disgusting was fortunate enough to get their nasty little hands on a trailer for Brett Simmons’ “Husk”. Naturally, the story is nothing to write to your impossibly elderly grandmother about — teenagers battle blood-thirsty scarecrows on a seemingly abandoned farm in the middle of absolutely nowhere — but I’m always down for a little scarecrow-related carnage. Whether or not Simmons and company can top the unintentional goofiness found in David Michael Latt’s “Scarecrow Slayer” remains to be seen. After all, that is a tough mission to accomplish by anyone’s standards. “Husk” stars Wes Chatham, C.J. Thomason, and Devon Graye. Expect the film...
- 1/13/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Do you remember those awful Scarecrow movies that came out in the early 2000s? There was Scarecrow in 2002, Scarecrow Slayer in 2003, and Scarecrow Gone Wild in 2004. Well, Gone Wild, was the first movie Olivia Munn acted in. Munn has come a long way since her Scarecrow days, starring in Iron Man 2 and having the honor of being Maxim magazine's first cover girl of 2010. Here is Munn's response about appearing in the magazine.
- 12/14/2009
- by wil
- HorrorYearbook
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