Night of the Scarecrow

About the movie

Claire Goodman returns to her hometown Hanford to visit her estranged father, Major Frank Goodman, and her family. She befriends the constructor Dillon that works for her father, and invites him to have dinner with her family. Dillon has fired the rebel Danny along the day, and during the night, the completely drunken Danny decides to seek revenge and drive a tractor with a friend through the cornfield. However, he stumbles upon a stone and breaks it, unleashing a force that uses the nearby scarecrow as a body. Soon, the scarecrow looks for members of the Goodman family to kill them. Claire and Danny are dating and they lean that one hundred years ago, a warlock promised to turn the useless land into a fertile and productive land. However, he was betrayed by an ancestor of the Goodman family and buried in the cornfield. Now his spirit is seeking revenge and looking for his book of spells to return to the human form.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil