History Main / ScaryScarecrows

* Found around San Monique in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.

* See also the low-budget CultClassic ''Film/{{Scarecrows}}'' from 1988.

* The short horror film ''{{Husk}}'' and its feature-length adaptation.

* The 1995 horror film ''Night of the Scarecrow'' has one that's possessed by the spirit of an evil warlock. Notable for some decent scarecrow-related special effects deaths and an ActuallyPrettyFunny PreMortemOneLiner.

''On it's face it's wearing your confused expression''\\

* Lord Pumpkin (see Comics examples) also appeared in the shortlived ''{{Ultraforce}}'' animated series.

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* Lord Pumpkin from TheUltraverse.

* The Syfy channel original movie ''Scarecrow'' uses a very creepy one that can only be stopped by [[spoiler: burying it alive.]]

* ''Film/TheStrangers'' also utilizes a scarecrow-like sack mask.

* The underrated, made-for-TV ghost story ''Dark Night of the Scarecrow''.

** The Batman version has also been adapted in the film ''Film/BatmanBegins'' (you'd think CillianMurphy would be slightly less creepy with a mask, but you'd be wrong), the video game ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', and various animated TV series.

* A scarecrow is one of the forms inhabited by the eponymous villain the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "The Mysterious Mr Mist".

* A scarecrow is one of the forms inhabited by the eponymous villain the ''WesternAnimation/NewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "The Mysterious Mr Mist".

* There is one in "Night of the living Scarecrow", the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/MonaThevampire''. Played with and subverted for these reasons: One, what one was the scarecrow was really the caretaker of the church...but then we find out there's a second hat, so there might really be a living scarecrow.

* ''WorzelGummidge''

* ''Series/Horrible Histories''' Pachacuti song:

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* Spud from ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' (sort of a [[TheTrickster mischief-maker]], but not scary).
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack's]] scarecrow costume is adorable.
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* Spud from ''BobTheBuilder'' (sort of a [[TheTrickster mischief-maker]], but not scary).

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[[caption-width-right:322:[[TooDumbToLive There really is nothing]] [[GenreBlind to be afraid of]], they told one another. [[TemptingFate After all, what could]] [[CreepyDoll a doll do?]] He's just a sack of straw, [[FamousLastWords it's not possible!]]]]

Scarecrows are scary. There's no doubt about it. The fact that they look like corpses propped up, or the [[FauxSymbolism vaguely]] [[CrucifiedHeroShot Christ-like]] looks, or the fact that [[UncannyValley they're meant to be human]] but don't look very human at all. As such, scarecrows are brilliant NightmareFuel fodder, so fiction is littered with examples of evil scarecrows.

* [[HollywoodVoodoo Basil Hawkins]] in ''OnePiece'' can cover himself in straw to turn into a scarecrow.

* The ''MagicTheGathering'' set ''Shadowmoor'' introduces a veritable plethora of animated scarecrow monsters, from the lowly [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=154395 Heap Doll]] to the mighty [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=159408 Reaper King]].

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''Comicbook/GhostRider'' both had separate villains called the Scarecrow. The Marvel version sometimes fights ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' as well.

* The Creeper disguises himself as one at the start of ''JeepersCreepers 2''.

* ''TheOrphanage'' has a scary scarecrow ''[[CreepyChild child]],'' whose sack mask hides a deformed face, [[spoiler:[[DarkIsNotEvil although he is not evil.]]]]

* The beginning of TimBurton's ''Film/SleepyHollow''.

* ''TheStrangers'' also utilizes a scarecrow-like sack mask.
* In ''CaptainClegg'', there are these all around town. The smugglers actually hide inside them to keep their eyes out for the law.

* One of the ''DresdenFiles'' books involved horror movie monsters coming to life; the biggest and baddest was a scarecrow.

* ''{{Goosebumps}}'' ''The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight'', where the protagonist and her brother visit their aunt & uncle's farm, only to come face-to-face with a dozen of these, brought to life by a somewhat psychopathic farmer nearby. The spell that brought them to life is reversed at the end, but then the farmer accidentally brings a ''bear pelt'' to life...

* "Harold" in ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones''. Two farmers make a scarecrow they name "Harold", after a neighbor they both hate. They use it as a punching bag and call it names. It comes to life and skins one of the farmers. [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/scary%20stories%20harold/gorycory08/sc27zy8-1.jpg The illustration]] is what makes it a scary scarecrow.

* The [[SecretHistories Drood family]] has scarecrows as one of the many defenses of their estate. Turns out they're actually the bodies (and souls) of the family's enemies, held between life and death, preserved and stuffed with straw, to animate and defend the house in times of need. If you listen in on the right frequency [[AndIMustScream you can hear them screaming.]]

* ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'', "The Tale of the Silent Servant": Two kids staying at a farm find a magic scarecrow who takes everything they say literally, i.e. the boy says he'd "like to ''kill''" his cousin for taking his baseball glove.

* ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'': A man is trapped and posed as a scarecrow by a vengeful farmer for sleeping with his wife.

* One episode of ''OneFootInTheGrave'' has a surprisingly dark ending, in which Victor takes revenge on some abusive nursing home staff by encasing their feet in cement and disguising them as scarecrows in a field.

* One episode of ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' called Four-Sided Triangle has shades of this. An abused girl living at a farm is constantly mistreated by the couple living there and the man lusts after her. After she hits her head in an 'escape attempt'' she seems to fall in love with the scarecrow in the field and goes out to visit it every night, and they believe she has gone crazy, making sure she will never leave. [[spoiler: However, one night, the Scarecrow actually DOES come to life - because the farmer was hiding inside it in order to play on her madness and have sex with her. Too bad she had planned it and killed both of them.]]

* ''{{GURPS}}'' had a horror supplement called "Creatures of the Night" that had an entry on Jackdaws- golems made of once living material (straw, wood, cotton, etc.) that were pathological liars.
* A ''{{Pathfinder}}'' module featured an encounter in a cornfield where ghoul-bitten villagers had been strung up as scarecrows by the ghouls to "ripen." When the party shows up, some "scarecrows" have turned, some are still human, and others...are just normal scarecrows.
* ''{{Deadlands}}'' includes living scarecrows as monsters.
* Pumpkin Jack from the ''{{Champions}}'' supplement ''Enemies: The International File''.
* [[DungeonsAndDragons 4th edition]] ''ForgottenRealms'' have scarecrows as constructs built by hags that attack anyone who gets too close.
* In ''{{Ravenloft}}'', evil spirits sometimes animate the scarecrows of vengeful farmers. What makes these scarecrows scary are the curse they're carrying, making the player characters' flesh irresistible to insects.

* Scarecrows are late game enemies in ''{{Izuna}}''. Considering that they can cut your earned XP in half at will, they are scary indeed.
* Somewhere between scarecrows and pumpkin people are the Fir Bolg in ''CityOfHeroes''. They inhabit the Croatoa area among all kinda of supernatural nastiness and appear everywhere else for the annual Halloween event.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' has Cacturne, a scarecrow-like cactus creature which lives for thousands of years, has sand for blood, and eats humans.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series has scarecrows high in the gruesome scale: they're hopping pikes with impaled corpses.

* The champion Fiddlesticks from ''LeagueOfLegends'' fits the criteria pretty well. His title is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 'Harbinger of Doom']]. Interestingly, his playstyle revolves around keeping the other team in a state of fear, because if they get to aggres-[[MemeticMutation CAWCAWCAW]].

* One of the apparition created by Alma in ''{{FEAR}} Perseus Mandate'', although how much they resemble scarecrows is [[http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/Scarecrow debatable ]]

* These are a type of enemy in {{Wizard101}}. It turns out that these are just lesser copies of the original, The Lord of Night, The King of Dread, The Herald of Death. He is summoned for one of the most powerful death spells.
* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', [[spoiler:a really ''fucking creepy'' scarecrow mecha with more than a passing resemblance to [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]] shows up to terrorize the characters in the Bad Boys Love route. It's made even creepier when you take in account that said characters are ''birds'', and then it's taken to new heights of creepy when it's revealed that the scarecrow's head contains the brain of the murdered heroine.]]

* In ''TalesofMU'', a phantasmal and possibly demonic scarecrow menaces Mackenzie in the campus labyrinth, and gifts her with a pitchfork that turns out to be [[spoiler:demonically possessed]].

* A possessed scarecrow was the MonsterOfTheWeek in an episode of ''MartinMystery''. He was planted by the previous owner of a farm to make sure that nobody else but him could own it.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'', one of the team's nastiest enemies was a ForgottenSuperweapon that took on the appearance of a scarecrow. The Scarecrow ''killed'' a couple of RedShirts, and ''several'' Tarkonian villages, almost murdered two of the Rangers, and managed to brainwash half the Tarkonian court. Worse, the thing wasn't even killed by being lit on fire! It just ran into the darkness - laughing.

* There's a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/strawman.htm really obscure Marvel superhero]] called the Strawman (no, not [[StrawMan that one]]) who is a scarecrow, though he's still pretty scary.

* ''DoctorSyn, Alias The Scarecrow'' (also a series of movies from [[WaltDisney Disney]]).

* NathanielHawthorne's "Feathertop" is a scarecrow brought to life by a witch, and made by her power to pass for a living man. He ''does'' frighten a couple of people, but ends as a {{Woobie}} himself.

* Obscure AdventureGame ''{{Toonstruck}}'' features a friendly "carecrow" who, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name states]], takes care of the birds instead of scaring them away.
* [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Conker]] has Birdy, who looks a bit frightening, but he's too drunk to project any real fear.
* Scarecrows are monster-type demons in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}''. Like all demons, they can be both good and evil, and work both for your party or against it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Folklore}}'' for the PS3 has a half-life (a sort of imaginary friend/spirit) named Scarecrow who accompanies the herione, Ellen on her journey through the Netherworld. He's rather whimsical and charming [[spoiler: that is until it turns out that he's been using Ellen to get him to the Nettherworld core so he could absorb all of humanities sorrow; though it was only to fulfill the wish Ellen made as a child, that is to create a world without fear or hatred]].

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* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', [[spoiler:a really ''fucking creepy'' scarecrow mecha with more than a passing resemblance to [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]] shows up to terrorize the characters in the Bad Boys Love route. It's made even creepier when you take in account that said characters are ''birds'', and then it's taken to new heights of creepy when it's revealed that the scarecrow's head contains the brain of the murdered heroine.]]