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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies

The Original ClassicOct. 24, 198196 Min.
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Watch: Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – An intellectually disabled man is unjustly accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot. Later, after it is revealed he saved the girl from a vicious dog attack, members of the search posse are killed by a mysterious scarecrow..
Plot: Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
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_**Of Scarecrows and Men**_

Something horrible happens in a rural community and four yokels are haunted by their part in the tragic event. Their torment increases when mysterious things start occurring. Charles Durning stars as the lead hick, a mailman, while Larry Drake plays the mentally challenged Bubba. Jocelyn Brando is on hand as his mother.

“Dark Night of the Scarecrow” (1981) is a thriller/horror with good Halloween ambiance that mixes in “Of Mice and Men” (1939) and “To Kill a Mocking Bird” (1962). You could tell Stephen King was influenced by it for his “The Green Mile” (1999), but don’t expect a prison flick.

There’s an effective sense of small town good ol’ boys, albeit misled by one of their own, along with some powerful subtext and a conclusion that can be interpreted a few ways, providing food for thought. One of the themes concerns projecting one’s own negative issues on to an innocent person and situation.

This was originally released to television so don’t anticipate much gore. It doesn’t need it.

The film runs 1 hour, 36 minutes, and was shot in Piru, California, which is 24 miles due north of Malibu in the high country, a dozen miles west of Santa Clarita. The 2010 restored version (which is the version I viewed) adds a key 2-second scene regarding the farm tractor in the field at the end.

GRADE: B+/A-

Review By: Wuchak

Bubba Didn’t Do it…

Dark Night of the Scarecrow is directed by Frank De Felitta and written by J.D. Feigelson and Butler Handcock. It stars Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Tonya Crowe, Jocelyn Brando, Lane Smith and Claude Earl Jones. Music is by Glenn Paxton and cinematography by Vincent Martinelli.

Small town Americana and Bubba Ritter (Drake), a friendly but mentally challenged man, is falsely accused of attacking and severely injuring young Marylee Williams (Crowe). Four of the town residents, with hate and ignorance driving them on, hunt down Bubba and find him hiding as a scarecrow in a field. Murdering him, they claim self defence and walk free from court. It’s not long afterwards, though, that the men start to see a scarecrow in their midst…

Some things from movies just stay with you from when you were a wee youngster, I still remember the first time I heard the anguished cry of Bubba Ritter stating that he didn’t do the crime he was being hunted for. Dark Night of the Scarecrow stood out by some considerable mile as one of the best TV horror movies I saw as a youth, not for things that I would later appreciate in film making as I got older, but just for sheer terror of a scarecrow stalking his prey for divine retribution. How wonderful to revisit the movie three decades later and find that it is still one of the best TV horror movies out there.

Oh it doesn’t terrify now, though it still packs a sense of unease and keeps scarecrows firmly in the realm of creepyville, but it has a style so sorely lacking in many of today’s horrors. There is no need to bludgeon us with slash and stalk, showing us gore front and centre, the makers here are subtle, refusing even to put the scarecrow in the limelight like Michael or Jason. There’s a smart ambiguity about the supernatural elements, keeping the mystery element strong as the guilty men begin to crack and head towards their real judgement.

Simmering away nicely in the narrative is of course the vile stench of bigotry, and the pain inflicted by such narrow minds. There is also a dark thread left dangling that suggests one of the guilty men is impure of thoughts towards little Marylee, one of the very things he whipped up as reason to hound Bubba for. Some thought went into the screenplay, and it’s credit to the writers that it never becomes a moral crusade, while the crafting of the lovely innocent friendship between Bubba and Marylee is beautifully born out by actors and technicians alike.

Durning and Drake dominate the movie with classy shows, impressive in Drake’s case as he is only in it for a short amount of time, but the work of young Tonya Crowe puts her in the club that houses best child performances of the 80s. Her reactions to Bubba and Otis (Durning) naturally call for different human emotions, and she in turn nails the aspects of youthful innocence and mature awareness of who the monster actually is. The photography is textured, the music equally so, and there’s even some shards of humour and irony along the way.

I can imagine many of today’s horror fans going into Dark Night of the Scarecrow and being very disappointed not to get a Voorhees type movie, while some more sensitive viewers may find the portrayals of backwater folk as being ignorantly stereotyped by the makers. It isn’t for every horror fan, without a doubt, and clearly it’s not perfect, but to those who loved it back when it first showed, those who are jaded by how this type of sub-genre of horror has evolved into bloody overkill and remake/sequel hell, then Dark Night of the Scarecrow is in fact a minor classic. 8/10

Review By: John Chard
Creepy little made-for-television gem
Frank DeFelitta, who also happened to write the novel Audrey Rose, turned to directing for this 1981 horror fantasy. The film opens with an eerie credit roll set on a pastel-colored windmill backdrop, and this is when we first hear the film’s unforgettabley chilling score. Twenty years after seeing this film for the first time, I can still play it over in my head. The film soon progresses to its undeniably clever storyline, which I won’t bother describing in detail as that has been done for me by previous reviewers. The atmosphere of this film is almost unbearably suspenseful at times, and the fact that we never see even a far-off image of the murderous culprit during the film adds to the creepiness. Charles Durning gives one of his best performances as the selfish, provincial mailman who is stalked by a vengeful killer. This film is best viewed alone late at night!
Review By: Lunar_Eclipse_Scoping
A movie made effective by its approach.
What this movie does well is not showing too much. This could had easily turned into a cheesy monster-flick, in which you see a guy dressed up as a scarecrow killing people. The scarecrow actually isn’t shown until the very end it is being implied often in the movie that the killer is not a ghostly scarecrow rising from the grave to take revenge upon his killers but a normal person of flesh and blood who has their own motivation to kill the bad men.

It relies further more on a very simple plot but due to its approach it works out original and effective nevertheless. Not that the movie is a very scary one but it still turns into a creepy and atmospheric one, when you’re not fully knowing what is going to happen next. The movie is definitely less worth and cheesy than its title at first sight might suggest.

You could say that the movie doesn’t show much and doesn’t has any gore in it because it’s a cheaply made for TV movie. That might be so but however the movie simply uses this to its own benefit. In this case less is more within this movie.

Director Frank De Felitta actually directed a couple of more made for TV horror movies like this throughout his career and it’s short of a shame that he never really broke through. Although I don’t know if his movies would had been better though if they had a bigger budget and a global world wide theatrical release. He actually made one big movie in his career, starring Sharon Stone which did flopped.

The movie doesn’t feature the world’s best actors (though Charles Durning has done some good things throughout his career) but this suits the movie and its atmosphere and style well. It is a surprising sight though seeing Marlon Brando’s older sister Jocelyn Brando in this. It also was weird seeing Larry Drake in this, as a retarded man, who can only think and act like a child. It was weird seeing him as this, since Larry Drake to me while always be that tough criminal Durant from the “Darkman” movies.

A movie really worth watching.

7/10

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Other Information:

Original Title Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Release Date 1981-10-24
Release Year 1981

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror
Director Frank De Felitta
Writer J.D. Feigelson, Butler Handcock
Actors Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 123movies
Original title Dark Night of the Scarecrow
TMDb Rating 6.5 117 votes

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