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It aint right executing a mentally challenged man named Bubba!
I purchased this movie for a friend from the Amazon market place seller and was holding my breath waiting to see what kind of shape a movie this old would be in when it arrived in my mailbox but to my surprise, it arrived in near mint condition. So my friend, who doesn't live near me, asked me to view the movie to make sure it was okay, I said "sure why not?, I hadn't seen it since it aired on TV, I'll give it a whirl!".
Well, in went the tape and aside from some tracking issues, which were solved with tracking controls, during the opening credits?, the movie played flawlessly in my VCR.
This is the story of Bubba, who was severely retarded, who befriended one of the local town girls of, shall we say, not of Bubba's physical age but anyways, some of the local townsfolk don't take a liking to Bubba hanging around with little girls and are just looking for any excuse in the world to come down on Bubba like a pack of wild dogs, well, they get their wish, as bubba's friend decides to tresspass in the yard of one of the locals, what she doesn't know is a vicious dog is waiting for her, Bubba crashes through the fence and the scene cuts to the little girls house, where there is a knock on the door, the mother answers the door and sees Bubba standing there with a seemingly lifeless body of her little girl, she lets out a scream and immediately, we see the local "pack of wild dogs" assembling for the hunt. we fast forward a bit when the posse comes to Bubba's house but his mother aint telling nobody nothing, seems they were after Bubba once before but couldn't find him but this time, they bring dogs with them....their search takes them out to the field where they encounter a scarecrow and the mailman (played by Charles Durning), discovers why they didn't find Bubba the first time.............he's hiding in the scarecrow...the last words he utters are "Bubba didn't do nothing"........the Posse opens fire and kills...err executes him but right after they kill him, they find out they executed an innocent man because the sheriff informs them that the little girl is still alive and Bubba saved her from the dog......the Mailman gives you an "Uh Oh" look on his face and I'm ending my review right here, you can either guess the rest or order the movie yourselves but it is a good movie from a TV movie standpoint, well as good as it could be, as old as it, is back when these kinds of movies were on TV but they have graciously omitted commercials.......Thank God.
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Now this is a good scarecrow movie
Years back I caught the final scenes of this movie on television and although I enjoyed it, I was never able to find it or even figure out what it was. In my search I came across the movie Scarecrows, which I didn't care for in the least in addition to it being a totally diferent film than what I thought. Finally I found it: Dark Night of the Scarecrow. This was apparently a made for television movie, although the quality it demonstrates would certainly have you believing otherwise. The term "Made for television" is usually synonomous with low production values, terrible acting, and all other attributes of Z-grade cinema. However this movie does the exact opposite and disproves these common beliefs.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow tells the simplistic tale of Bubba, a mentally challenged man who despite being harmless is regarded as somewhat of a nuisance amongst the residents of his small rural town, mostly due to his friendship with a little girl. When the young girl is attacked by a dog, the town accuses Bubba of harming her, giving four local men who are less than fond of Bubba reason to hunt him down. Bubba is found hiding in a scarecrow and is brutally shot down by the men, conveniently just before the truth about the incident is revealed. After the law fails to convict the men, another form of justice prevails when a familiar scarecrow begins appearing in their fields and they begin meeting their fates one by one in some very gruesome ways.
The scenery really assists in giving the movie a creepy atmosphere with many shots of deserted farmland and the dark rural town. The kill scenes also add a lot to the film as they are all quite creative including a crop harvester, a corn silo, and a pitchfork. The scarecrow is never really shown committing any of the murders, but rather serves as somewhat of a symbol foreshadowing the fates of the men as it appears randomly in the fields as a ghostly, lifeless figure in the breeze. As the men grow more fearful, it becomes viewed as a type of supernatural force that will inevitably claim them all as a form of justice for their wrong doing. As if meeting their deaths is the universe's way of balancing itself out.
Amazingly the film manages to be very entertaining with hardly a drop of blood and the fact that the killer is never shown until the final scene. Add to that a eerie score, and we actually come out with a very good ghost/revenge/Halloween movie here that probably doesn't exceed a PG rating! This is a tough movie to track down, but it's a classic in its own right and if you're a horror fanatic it's definetly worth it. This NEEDS to see a DVD release, hopefully we'll see something in the future for Dark Night of the Scarecrow.
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they anit ten like you worth my sons life[bubba's mother]
i seen this film in 1981 when it came out.and i still love it
i've got it on an old VHS i really wish they would put it on dvd.
what happen to those four men.they asked for it.bubba didn't hurt
marylee.RAY G.
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Unlike Michael, Freddy, Jason, or Leatherface, the shadowy stalker in this film is the good guy!
"Dark Night of the Scarecrow", especially for it's time, was a highly effective thriller. What makes this film so unique is that it was released at a time when the shadowy characters in movies (Michael Meyers, Jason, Freddy Kruger)were the bad guys. This time, the shadowy figure is the good guy--exacting harsh justice on those who savagely gunned him down. This, I thought, has always been the most refreshing item about this movie. They didn't make "Bubba" into a psycho killer murdering camp councelors which gave the film a nice twist to this particular genre of thrillers. Very nicely done.
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Truly one of the greatest horror films of all time!!!
This truly is one of the greatest horror films of all time! I remember watching this movie back when I was about 8 years old when they first showed it on tv, this movie still gives me the creeps today, 24 years later! I am a horror movie fanatic, and there are very few movies that still genuinely give me the creeps and this one definately rates up there! I don't know why they have not released this movie on DVD, it truly is a classic that did not receive nearly as much recognition as it deserved.
