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Decent horror movie about a warlock who terrorizes a town through the body of a scarecrow. It's never boring and the acting and special effects are fairly polished, but the movie suffers from one too many stupid scenes near the end. It also takes a while to explain what exactly is going on, but overall it was enjoyable enough. 4 out of 10.

This is a very typical and predictable film.I could guess out,practically each and every scene of it.BUT:I had a good a time with it.The murders are original,gruesome and they are supported by way above the average special effects.This film is to be seen with other horror buffs in order to have a good time.

Night of the Scarecrow (1995)

** (out of 4)

A young woman (Elizabeth Barondes) returns home to learn that her family is about to sell their corn fields so that a mall can take its place. The woman is against this idea and especially after an evil warlock takes control of a scarecrow and starts to kill her family. NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW has a pretty good idea for a movie but the screenplay ends up not doing too much with it and in the end we've pretty much just got your standard slasher film with a few memorable death scenes but nothing else. All of the characters are pretty much bland and that includes the leads who simply never bring much energy to their roles. Most of the supporting players are forgettable as well with the exception of Bruce Glover who plays a preacher with a big mouth. The make up effects for the most part are pretty good and we do get a couple fairly interesting death scenes. A few people are pretty much stitched up or turned into scarecrows and these scenes look very good as does another one where a woman gives birth to one. The look of the scarecrow was quite good so it's a shame more wasn't done for him. The entire subplot about the warlock never really added anything to the picture so a straight revenge tale probably would have been better. Still, horror fans into the scarecrow sub-genre will find the monsters good enough to give it a view but there are certainly better films out there.

A group of drunk teenagers accidentally set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow and terrorizes the small farming community of Hanford.

Mike Mayo says the film "is nicely photographed with a few bloody good touches". I think this is pretty spot on. The movie really does look pretty sharp, particularly for an independent film, and the gore is respectable. Any horror fan should eat it right up. The special effects, for the most part, were above and beyond what you might expect.

Lead actress Elizabeth Barondes was likable. I do not recall ever seeing her in anything else (although she did the remake of "Not of This Earth" the same year), but she deserved to be a bigger star. Apparently too late now, as she has moved on to become an interior designer. The rest of the cast is good, too, and fans of "Dodgeball" or "Office Space" will appreciate Stephen Root in the role of a sheriff.

Of particular interest to me was the "orgy" scene. Filmed in crisp sepia, with plenty of throbbing and corpulent flesh. These are not all beautiful people, but they are animalistic, and I think director Jeff Burr really did himself a favor by including this scene, pushing the boundaries of the film just a bit further.

Burr, in general, deserves respect. Sadly, this film is probably overshadowed by the similarly named "Dark Night of the Scarecrow". But they are both good films and have their own sensibilities. This one is much darker, much more gory. Burr's career is one horror sequel after another, which he does fine at, but his best work shines through in his original pieces like this one and "From a Whisper to a Scream".

As of 2012, Olive Films has finally released this movie on to DVD and Blu-Ray for the first time. I have not seen their version, but I hope it is cleaned up nice and has a special feature or two. The Netflix streaming version is full frame and somewhat fuzzy, suggesting a VHS transfer. I know this film does not have the fan following of other mid-1990s horror films, but perhaps with the Netflix exposure more people will push the right people to give this film a decent release.

Wasn't expecting anything great, but it was better than I thought. Good rural atmosphere, ok acting & decent script. Some of the murder scenes are pretty innovative & gory. Direction could have been better, sometime scenes end abruptly. Overall, good movie for a rainy evening.

The special effects and make-up are well done. The plot is standard. Characters are really fun, especially the priest. But the main girl and guy were a bit of a bore. As if cast only for their looks (which is usual, but at least look for a bit more, right?) The Scarecrow is funny and entertaining. He could've easily become one of those horror film characters like Leprechaun, or PumkinHead, or Jack Frost. But not exciting enough to become a Jason, or Freddy. Not much to say except i enjoyed it, rather than getting just plain bored.

This movie has no redeeming qualities (okay a couple of inventive deaths but you'll be bored getting to them). Writing a review of it seems to be a waste of time but I've already wasted 90 minutes of my life watching it so if I can stop other people from doing the same then it was worth it. Think for a minute what makes bad horror movies so bad and you have Night of the Scarecrow. The director needs to go back to film school and study suspense again because this movie doesn't have any. Let me say this one last time: gore does not equal horror!!! The gore in the movie is even quite lame. I find Scarecrows scary so I had high hopes for this film but it's just another example of why horror movies get such a bad rap. The acting is mediocre as are the few shocks that the film has. Do yourself a favour and skip this dud. 1 out of 10.

This film is long lost treasure for horror scavengers. Its often labeled as "supernatural horror", but its true strength is in the slashing scenes. The story of the small town with a curse wouldn't be as engaging without the fantastic slasher edge. The kill scenes look like they are straight out of classic Italian horror: amazing gore effects done without computers. The kills are innovative and realistic looking, including some Saw-worthy torture sequences. The plot is hardly original but it turns out to be just sufficient enough. If you somehow combined Maniac, Children of the Corn, and Pumpkinhead into one movie, it would come out something like Night of the Scarecrow.

A group of drunken teenagers accidently release the spirit of an evil warlock who was imprisoned for hundreds of years who takes the form of a scarecrow. He then goes about the town killing the descendants of those who imprisoned him. Well made horror flick with good special effects, is still just a routine slasher flick with an unoriginal premise.

Rated R; Nudity, Violence, Sexual Situations, and Profanity.

If u are a fan of crappy b grade horror movies i highly recommend that u watch this movie and i think that u will like this movie.The acting in this movie is really poor and there are some OK gore scenes in this movie and the horror make up and the special affects are actually good.

I was surprised to find that the OK actor Stephen Root from the good movies the lady killers and the very funny movie Dodgeball stars in this movie as the Sheriff.

Over all this movie is OK and this movie is not out on DVD yet and if u find this movie on old crap video u should rent it.Over all my rating for this movie is 5 out of 10.

Claire Goodman (Elizabeth Barondes) returns to her hometown Hanford to visit her estranged father, Major Frank Goodman (Stephen Root), and her family. She befriends the constructor Dillon (John Mese) that works for her father, and invites him to have dinner with her family. Dillon has fired the rebel Danny (John Hawkes) along the day, and during the night, the completely drunken Danny decides to seek revenge and drive a tractor with a friend through the cornfield. However, he stumbles upon a stone and breaks it, unleashing a force that uses the nearby scarecrow as a body. Soon, the scarecrow looks for members of the Goodman family to kill them. Claire and Danny are dating and they lean that one hundred years ago, a warlock promised to turn the useless land into a fertile and productive land. However, he was betrayed by an ancestor of the Goodman family and buried in the cornfield. Now his spirit is seeking revenge and looking for his book of spells to return to the human form.

"Night of the Scarecrow" is a slasher with the storyline of the curse of a family that is hunted down by a scarecrow. The plot is very reasonable, with good performances and special effects. The unknown Elizabeth Barondes performs a strong and great character. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Noite do Espantalho" ("The Night of the Scarecrow")

Now, I had never actually heard about this movie prior to stumbling upon it here in 2024. And with it being a horror movie I had never heard about, much less watched, of course I opted to sit down and watch it. Perhaps I had been missing out on a great horror movie.

The storyline in "Night of the Scarecrow" was a pretty generic and mundane one, even for a horror movie of this sort. Sure, it was watchable, but it was by no means an outstanding or memorable horror viewing experience. Writers Reed Steiner and Dan Mazur just didn't put together anything overly impressive here back in 1995.

I am sure that if you are a newcomer to the horror genre, then "Night of the Scarecrow" might do the trick for you. But I have been watching horror movies for about 40 years, and I have to admit that director Jeff Burr just didn't really deliver the goods here for me.

The movie actually has a couple of familiar faceso n the cast list, with the likes of Bruce Glover, Dirk Blocker, John Hawkes and Stephen Root. The acting performances in the movie were actually good.

Visually then "Night of the Scarecrow" was okay. Nothing outstanding really, but the effects were fair enough for a movie such as this.

My rating of director Jeff Burr's 1995 horror movie "Night of the Scarecrow" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Nothing exciting happens in this horror movie. All is extremely standard, all is expected, and you keep having this 'deja-vu' feeling despite the fact that you did not see the film before. No wonder, it looks like some collection of quotes from gothic literature that you have already read and from other many class-B horror movies that you have already seen.

I cannot point to something bad either. Acting is not good or bad, just medium TV-level stuff. Effects are no worse or repulsive than in many other movies that belong to the genre. It is just...boring. Avoid this film, unless all other channels broadcast only cricket or baseball games (no offense intended - replace those by the two sports that you cannot understand)

This film essentially begins a hundred years earlier in a small farming community which has been experiencing several issues resulting in extremely poor harvests. Desperate to turn things around the leaders of the community make a deal with an evil "Warlock" (played by John Lazar) who promises better crop yields in return for allowing him to live freely among them. Not seeing any harm in this they agree only to soon realize that he is intent upon seducing all of the local women and changing their community into something to simply satisfy his deviant sexual desires. Eventually things get completely out of control and they decide to kill him. The only problem is that his magical powers are so formidable that they fear the consequences if they fail. So after extensive research they discover that in order to rid themselves of him they first have to steal his spellbook. Once that is accomplished they then crucify him and subsequently bury his bones under the cross in a sealed container. This results in the warlock's spirit being trapped inside his body which transforms into a scarecrow hanging in the middle of a cornfield. Not long afterward things return to normal and the small community of Hanford gradually begins to grow with the descendants of the leading pioneer eventually assuming leadership positions. However, things change dramatically when some drunken teenagers accidentally break the container and release the warlock's spirit which brings the "Scarecrow" (Howard Swain) to life--and fills him with an insatiable need for revenge. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film started off well enough but it suffered somewhat from a rather thin plot and weak script. Admittedly, there were a few good horror scenes here and there and Elizabeth Barondes (as "Claire") performed in a respectable manner but it wasn't quite enough for me to rate it any higher than I have.

This effort from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" and "From a Whisper to a Scream" director Jeff Burr follows a small farming community in Northern California, where the spirit of a warlock is unleashed and possesses a scarecrow, wreaking havoc on the townspeople. The mayor's daughter, who has recently returned, finds herself a prime figure at the center of the madness.

Not to be confused with the 1981 TV movie "Dark Night of the Scarecrow", this 1995 film does very much have the look and feel of a TV movie at times, or rather, a direct-to-video comportment (which it was). It very much resembles a number of other films of this era that lined video store shelves (think the numerous "Children of the Corn" sequels, for example) which, while not high art, were often schlocky fun--and this is certainly true of "Night of the Scarecrow."

The film suffers from some clunky dialogue and at times lifeless performances, as well as a number of special effects that even would have looked a bit hokey in 1995, but it's not all bad. There is a decent atmosphere established here, and the classic "town secret being unearthed" subplot is decently played, even featuring a stagey Satanic orgy sequence shot in sepia (and with what appears to be occult symbols on the floor with duct tape!). There are a number of fairly showy gross-out murder sequences here that are marginally effective, and the film is largely well-shot.

The finale plays out as to be expected, but again, it is all in good fun. While it is not an exceptional film by any means, "Night of the Scarecrow" will have a fair appeal to genre fans who grew up in the 1990s with films of this type. If your parents let you rent any number of "Children of the Corn" sequels from Blockbuster (and they made an impression on you), "Night of the Scarecrow" serves as a nice throwback to video store-era horror done on the cheap. 6/10.

I'll admit, there aren't that many English language horror movies that made it to video in the 90s that I'm not at least aware of, but Night of the Scarecrow took me by surprise, I'll admit. It is possibly I had actually seen its title before, but in my head confused it with either Scarecrows, a 1988 movie, or any of those entirely disposable horror movies that came out post truth of the century that seemed to favour scarecrows as an antagonist.

Indeed, Scarecrows are a recurring menace in all walks of fiction, villains in both Marvel & DC comics, numerous movies, a Tales from the Crypt episode...there's even a Goosebumps book about one. Yet I can't think of any definitive turn for one as a villain, which does make me wonder why it's such a popular touchstone for horror writers, even though there's been limited success?

This didn't have any names I recognised, and upon looking up director Jeff Burr, the immediate standout on his CV is Witchouse 2, one of the worst movies I've ever seen, so hopes weren't high.

The movie follows Dillon (John Mese) a construction worker who has pulled up in a small American town in search of work. He quickly befriends Claire (Elizabeth Barondes) whom it turns out is daughter of town Mayor Frank Goodman (Stephen Root)

The Goodman's run this town in all faucets, with the Mayor, chief of police and priest all part of the deep rooted clan.

This are going fine until local town reprobates take a joyride on a tractor and wind up crashing into and destroying a mysterious stone crypt. This releases the spirit of an ancient warlock, who possesses a nearby scarecrow.

As he begins a rampage across the town, Dillon has to not only stay alive, but work out how to defeat the straw slayer while uncovering his motives, and why he has a vendetta against the Goodman clan.

So the plot isn't going to rock your world, but in all honesty, it's relatively engaging, and does at least have a bit more to it that the majority of slasher films of the era (the genre was about to receive a big facelift courtesy of Scream) and while it's not original, it is workable.

Where it does hold some real appeal for horror aficionados is the rather creative ways the scarecrow offs his victims. It starts with a simple pitchfork but his supernatural nature grants him a few more unique means to dispose of his victims. It's not that gory as such, with a few exceptions, but his use of straw is somewhat unsettling.

One thing I'm on the fence about, which based on the trivia here was a late change, is the nature of the Scarecrow's vocal capacity. I mean he talks. Apparently Burr stopped short of having him make wisecracks, but he is relatively vocal, which is a bizarre middle ground that I never really come to terms with. I think his few outbursts are meant to be creepy, but they fall a bit flat for me.

The effects work is generally quite decent to be fair. It's not pushing the boundaries or anything but more than acceptable for a movie of this ilk.

On that note, this is a strange beast. In terms of production values, this feels somewhere between a Straight-To-Video and a TV Movie in terms of budget. The effects and general quality of the film feels good, but the acting, while not awful, is a bit below par. I mean there's nothing off putting, but I feel like it's missing a character actor or two to steal the show.

Indeed, this is a strange one to try and rate. It's not a 'good' movie by any stretch, not even fun enough right be a cult classic, yet at the same time it's relatively engaging for fans of the genre, so if tit get the chance to stream it for free...it's a passable way to spend a night indoors. Don't set your hopes too high and you should be fine.

Night of The Scarecrow is a cool horror movie. The scarecrow may look cheesy but he is cool. There are some great killing scenes throughout the movie which make this a worth while watch. Not many people have heard of this, but still give it a go because it is much better then some of the other horror movies out there.

I watched this when i was 4 in VHS and i used my mom as a shield not to see it! 🤣🤣

I only watched "Night of the Scarecrow" for one reason, and that was to look at the beautiful Cristi Harris. She should have played the female lead but instead was barely in the movie. This wouldn't have mattered so much if the movie was interesting at all, but it really isn't. I just never cared about it at all.

It's a slasher about a killer scarecrow, but you knew that already. I can't tell you anything else about it because I didn't pick up on anything else while watching and toward the end I just watched YouTube or something while waiting for the movie to end.

It does have one scene that got my attention, which was a death scene in which the scarecrow is apparently able to infest its victim's body with straw which bursts out from within and even comes out the victim's eyes. This was pretty impressive from a special effects perspective.