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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...

Among the eight films debuting in theaters January 28 from After Dark Originals , one is going to take another stab at the scarecrow sub-genre. Hear that groan? It's the sound of horror fans collectively reflecting on dour scarecrow fare like 1995's Night of the Scarecrow or 2004's Scarecrow Gone Wild . Granted, fans have had to take the good ( Dark Night of the Scarecrow ) with the bad ( Messengers 2: The Scarecrow ), and Brett Simmons, the director of the upcoming Husk , is well aware of this. With his film, he hopes to remove the stigma usually afflicting scarecrow-themed horror stories. Simmons film began as a short that played to Sundance audiences. When After Dark came a-callin', he was given a chance to expand the Husk 's story and attach Wes Chatham, Devon Graye...

Internet nerds and comedy geeks were brought perilously close together a few days ago when The Daily Show introduced Attack of The Show’s Olivia Munn as the latest guest correspondent on Jon Stewart’s political comedy series. Munn showed up as the “Senior Asian Correspondent”, reporting on the disastrous Bp oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s probably not a coincidence that her debut bit was also one of the funniest we’ve seen on The Daily Show in months (which is saying something): Munn’s a gifted comedic actress– as she’s proven on G4’s Aots many times over. With that in mind– along with the brand-new NBC series, Perfect Couples, she has on the horizon, Collider’s Scott Wampler talked with Olivia to get to the bottom of her awesomeness. Read it for yourselves after the jump…

In case you missed her debut sketch,...

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.