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The film was followed by two sequels, 2003's ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'' and 2004's '' Scarecrow Gone Wild'', but is wholly unrelated to [[Film/Scarecrow1973 the American]] of [[Film/Scarecrow1983 Soviet]] drama films.

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The film was followed by two sequels, 2003's ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'' and 2004's '' Scarecrow Gone Wild'', but is wholly unrelated to [[Film/Scarecrow1973 the American]] of or [[Film/Scarecrow1983 Soviet]] drama films.Soviet]] films of the same name.
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'''''Scarecrow''''' is a 2002 {{American|Films}} SlasherMovie from Creator/TheAsylum.

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'''''Scarecrow''''' is a 2002 {{American|Films}} SlasherMovie from Creator/TheAsylum.

Lester Dwervick is a small-town outcast, constantly tormented by bullies. When he meets a girl who actually treats him decently, he falls in love with her, only to have his heart broken when he sees her kissing another guy. Soon after, he gets in an argument with his mom's drunkard boyfriend, who suffocates him to death and makes it look like a suicide. Lester's VengefulGhost possesses a nearby scarecrow and goes about slaughtering all his tormentors one by one...

The film was followed by two sequels, 2003's ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'' and 2004's '' Scarecrow Gone Wild'', but is wholly unrelated to [[Film/Scarecrow1973 the American]] of [[Film/Scarecrow1983 Soviet]] drama films.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AlcoholicParent: Lester's mom is such an alcoholic that he has to regularly stop their trailer from being burned down when she falls asleep with a lit cigarette.
* AlphaBitch: Stephanie flat admits that she only picked Lester as a science partner for the easy A, and rips a drawing he made for her to pieces in front of him.
* ApatheticTeacher: Mrs. Melton, a complete {{Jerkass}} who openly berates her students in front of the class and flat admits she doesn't care about them when she isn't being paid to. Meanwhile, she actively calls her students stupid and brain-damaged when she's grading their papers.
* BigBad: Chad causes all the bloodshed in the film by being Lester's primary tormentor.
* DateRape: Chad's first reaction when he doesn't recognize Judy is to ask if he got her drunk and date raped her.
* DateRapeAverted: Lester finds a guy sexually harassing a girl he's on a date with and impales him with a pitchfork.
* TheDogBitesBack: Lester is tormented by the whole of Emerald Grove all his life, until he's murdered and possesses a scarecrow to slaughter them all.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Lester's bullies taunt him with the nickname "Scarecrow."
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The scarecrow is seemingly burned to ash, taking Lester's spirit with it, but then he shows up in the framing story and kills the guys telling it.]]
* FramingDevice: The events of the film are a story told by a guy to his friends while they smoke weed in a cornfield. [[spoiler:At the end Lester shows up and kills them.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain:It's implied that Lester's rampage was caused by an evil force that sleeps beneath the cornfields.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Lester kills [[spoiler:Chad]] by stabbing him in the head with a corn cob.
* JerkJock: Chad regularly bullies Lester and flat admits to being a serial date rapist. He also uses the standard bully FreudianExcuse of poor self-esteem as a pickup line.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Lester's killer hangs his body with a rope to make it look like a suicide.
* NightmareFetishist: Two boys find one of Lester's victims in a cornfield, and decide it's the coolest thing they've ever seen.
* OneWordTitle
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These were tormented in life and return to avenge their abusers by possessing inanimate objects. When possessing said objects, they are significantly more acrobatic than in life, and immune to any damage that doesn't completely destroy their vessel.
* ProtagonistTitle
* ScaryScarecrows: Lester possesses a scarecrow to avenge his torment in life.
* VomitingCop: After a couple of kids find one of Lester's victims, the sheriff's deputy decides to talk to them in an attempt to avert this. When [[NightmareFetishist the boys talk about how cool finding the body was]], he loses his lunch anyways.
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