Short film

Scarecrow
1972 · 17 min
A slow, sun-scorched descent into dread, all parched fields and circling birds, that leaves you uneasy long after its brief runtime.
- Directed by
- John Sharrad
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Don Blackwell, Dara Merry, Des Waters
- Overview
- July 1931. A farmstead near Kilmore, Southern Ireland. The country is in drought. Day after day the sun scorches the land and parches the crops. The dry East wind carries a plague of rooks and crows which plunder the fields continually. Each new day brings little hope of change...
- How it feels
- Eerie, bleak, dark and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Survival, isolation, nature, fate
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- John Sharrad
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Don Blackwell, Dara Merry, Des Waters