A scary story to tell in the dark.My girlfriend and I just watched a Creepshow episode involving a killer scarecrow... Despite some great effects/visuals, we didn’t love that segment and yet again another killer scarecrow piece felt squandered... so I turned to my hopefully future wife (no joke guys I’m proposing next week!) and asked her if she’s seen Dark Night of the Scarecrow. She said, “no”, I said “YES!!!”, and we immediately popped it in. It played like gangbusters tonight—The perfect late night jam filled with well deserved vengeance, dark humor/moments, psychological terror, and a terrific finale in a cornfield/pumpkin patch.I watch every scarecrow movie that comes out because it’s the best idea that’s never pulled off well... hoping that the next one will be the one... but it hasn’t turned out that way yet. As it stands, this and Scarecrows (a movie that is wrongfully shit on and actually rules despite what many others will tell you) are my favorite of the bunch... especially this one though—this is the best scarecrow movie—a familiar story told many times before but the execution here is just something special... filled with moments equal parts wonderful and disturbing and an ending that reaches right into my chest and touches my heart.
