Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a 1981 American madefortelevision suspense horror film directed by veteran novelist Frank De Felitta author of Audrey Rose from a script by J.D. Feigelson. Feigelsons intent had been to make an independent feature, but his script was bought by CBS for television despite this, only minor changes were made to the original screenplay.
Marylee, who has recovered from the attack, sneaks out of her room at night and goes over to the Ritter house looking for Bubba. Mrs. Ritter cannot bring herself to tell Marylee the truth and instead tells her that Bubba has gone away where no one can hurt him. Marylee runs out of the house to look for Bubba and Mrs. Ritter goes after her. She finds Marylee sitting in the field where Bubba had been killed singing a favorite song of hers and Bubbas, and she calmly tells Mrs. Ritter that Bubba isnt gone, only hiding.A day later, Harliss finds a scarecrow in his fields like the one Bubba was hidden in there is no indication of who put it there. Otis suspects the district attorney of putting it there to rattle the four of them and tells the others to keep calm and do nothing. In the evening, the figure disappears, and Harliss hears activity in his barn. He is investigating up in the loft when a wood chipper below starts of its own accord. Startled, he topples over into the machine and is killed. Because the wood chipper had not run out of gasoline after Harliss had been killed but had been switched off, Otis, Philby and Skeeter suspect that Harliss death was not accidental. Otis obliquely accuses Mrs. Ritter of having engineered this supposed accident she denies involvement, but says that other agencies will punish her sons murderers and also implies that Otis is a pedophile because of his intense interest in Marylee. ........
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