Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Movie • 1981 • Horror
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Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked by a mysterious scarecrow.
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A character is implied to be a pedophile, and later there is a scene where they are talking to a little girl in a creepy, grooming manor and attempting to get her to come close to him. They are stopped but it is an uncomfortable scene. At the end the little girl is physically (not sexually) attacked but is unharmed.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone stalked?
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A character is watched with binoculars and is followed and chased with intent to harm. The perpetrators are then “stalked” by a ghost.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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It is heavily implied that Otis is an alcoholic.
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An angry dog is shown, about to attack, but we aren’t shown the attack
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Are there bugs?
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Other than a few that you see quickly fly by because so much of the movie was outside. Bugs aren't a featured part of the movie.
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Is someone buried alive?
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A man is buried alive under a bunch of grain inside a silo.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Someone once uses an inhaler after they are frightened.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character falls into a machine which kills them. They can be seen falling and heard screaming as they die but the death is off camera.
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Is someone burned alive?
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No one is burned alive, but a character dies and the house their body is in bursts into flames.
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A child is attacked by a dog and presumed dead for a moment, but is soon revealed to be fine.
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A mother of a deceased adult with a probable developmental disability dies.
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Although a ghost is haunting characters, an apparition is never seen, only a stationary scarecrow. At the very end, the ghost scarecrow moves on its own.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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A stereotypically autistic-coded character is wrongfully accused of harming a child, and is chased down by a gang of “vigilantes” who kill him. It is implied that they have been stalking him, verbally abusing him, and planning on harming him for some time before the events of the movie also.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A character is trapped in a grain silo and dies when grain pours over them, suffocating them.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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As I stated in the “autism specific abuse” category. Also the autistic-coded character’s mother says he is no older than a child in his mind. She means no harm by the statement and is attempting to protect him by saying it, but it could still be triggering to those who’ve been had similar things said about them.
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Vehicular
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Toward the end of the movie, yes. It's not a very graphic crash, and nobody is injured as a result.
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Not much blood and gore, mostly just bloody bullet holes on screen for a moment, and another set of bloody wounds at the end.
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Is there gun violence?
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A character is shot 20 times. The shooting is on screen and the bloody bullet holes are seen.
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