The Scarecrow is a 1982 New Zealand film, also known as Klynham Summer in America.
It was directed by Sam Pillsbury based on the 1963 horror novel by New Zealand author Ronald Hugh Morrieson.
[1] One night a girl is slain in the woods of a small town, two teenagers, Sam and Les, inadvertently cross the killer's path while robbing the hens of Victor the school bully.
Small-town New Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to its depths.
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