Scarecrow

A brooding, cerebral detective story that uses haunted places as metaphors for prejudice, pulling you into an unsettling inquiry into fear and hate.

Directed by

Jeff G. Vincent

Genres

Mystery, Thriller

Starring

Barış Özcan, Chuck McMahon, Sébastien Louis

Overview

New York homicide detective James D'Angelo discovers the connection between murders which seem ordinary and unrelated. Motive of those incidents are related with hate, race, sexual orientation, xenophobia and extremism. They all happened in haunted places at different periods of time. Investigation drags him into darkest corners of human nature. Haunted places -just like scarecrows- hide a bigger truth, beyond police work. The detective find himself as 'a crow' and figures out haunted places, hate, extreme thoughts and phobias are as scarecrows. Fear motivates people's acts, we're like crows. But who put these 'scarecrows / scare-humans' to our lives?

How it feels

Dark, tense, eerie and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Crime, race, identity, fate

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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