Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: VCI9213
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 089859921322
- Street Date: 09/10/24
- PreBook Date: 08/06/24
- Label: VCIINDIE »
- Genre: Horror
- Run Time: 181 mins
- Number of Discs: 2
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1981
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Charles Durning
- Robert F. Lyons
- Claude Earl Jones
- Lane Smith
- Tonya Crowe
- Larry Drake
- Jocelyn Brando
- Amber Wedding
- Adam Snyder
- Carol Dines
- Aiden Shurr
- Tim Gooch
- Mike VanZant
- Richard Seng
- Director: Frank De Felitta
- Director: J.D. Feigelson
Product Assets
Dark Night Of The Scarecrows: Ultimate Collector's Edition Double-feature
Thrilling double feature includes both the 1981 classic horror film along with its exciting, long awaited 2021 sequel!
- List Price: $29.95
- Your Price: $29.95
- In Stock: -86
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981): When young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe) is found viciously mauled, all hell breaks loose in her small rural town. Officious postmaster Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) leads a gang of bigots in pursuit of the suspect: her mentally challenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). Finding him hiding inside a scarecrow, they exact brutal mob "justice"...only to discover a tragic mistake! Now a strange apparition stalks the land seeking each of them out, as the legend of the Scarecrow begins.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2021): A dark terror lies just below the surface of the small-town Chris Rhymer (Amber Wedding) and her young son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr) have settled in. One day while looking for Jeremy, she comes upon a weathered old scarecrow, and realizing that is only an inert effigy, she tells it her secret for being there. Now, suddenly after forty years, a dark terror stalks the cornfields. Is it on a mission of revenge or is it protecting Chris from outside threats? The legend of the Scarecrow continues . . .
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Sales Points
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) stars Larry Drake (Darkman), Charles Durning (Dog Day Afternoon) and Tonya Crowe (Knots Landing)
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) is from Executive Producer Joe Wizan (Jeremiah Johnson, Junior Bonner, Audrey Rose)
- Having achieved cult status, Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) had it's 'big screen' premiere during it's 30th Anniversary as part of the 2010 Texas Frightmare Weekend
- J.D. Feigelson’s pitchfork-perfect Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), made its debut on CBS in 1981 and became one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time and started the whole “Scarecrow” horror genre.
- Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream); after reading J.D. Feigelson’s script for DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW-2, commented “Loved it…beware the cornfield!”
Press Quotes
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981): A spooky masterpiece... 4.5 out of 5 stars
—Dread Central
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981): A slow burning, fantastically creepy small screen tale... 4/5 stars
—Justin Kerswell, Hysteria Lives
