On October 24, 1981, CBS aired one of the most popular made-for-TV movies ever, the horror film Dark Night of the Scarecrow (watch it HERE). J.D. Feigelson had originally written the script for Dark Night of the Scarecrow with the intention of getting it made as a independent feature – and more than forty years later, he has made a sequel as an independent feature. Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is set to to receive a Blu-ray and DVD release on May 10th (you can pre-order a copy at THIS LINK), and the trailer can be seen in the embed above.
Written and directed by Feigelson, Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 has a lengthy synopsis:
Corn rustling, cicadas screaming, a crow watching as a farmer hears strange noises in his barn. He enters and looks around. Nothing. Suddenly a long, sharp scythe whisks through the air catching him between the eyes.
sponsored contentInto this environment, Chris Rhymer and her young son Jeremy have recently moved. It’s a small country town in Stubblefield County. To locals she is a mystery. “Why”, they asked themselves, “would she move to this backwater?” Chris finds work in a country store and Jeremy is watched after school by an older woman, Aunt Hildie. Hildie and Jeremy form a close relationship at the expense of Chris. One day, while looking for Jeremy, Chris comes upon an old, weather-beaten Scarecrow. Seeing how sad it looks, she puts a flower into its lapel to brighten it up, and thinking it only an inert effigy, she whispers her troubled past life into its seemingly unhearing ear. That night a dark figure enters her room as Chris sleeps and returns the flower.
Unrealized by Chris, Jeremy has fallen under the influence of Aunt Hildie. We see that she is manipulating the Scarecrow through Jeremy. With his spirit, mentally challenged in life, the scarecrow only responds to children like Jeremy. Then the terror begins. As locals and Chris’s past come to destroy her, they are met with horror and grisly death from… the Scarecrow.
The film stars Amber Wedding, Aiden Shurr, and Carol Dines.
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