It has been described as a B movie and stars scream queen Tiffany Shepis and Tim Young among others, including director and cofounder of Oingo Boingo Richard Elfman.

Lester is a social outcast whose teacher demeans him for his living in a trailer park with his frequent drunken mother who often brings home drunks from the local bar.

Lester shows a drawing he made to Stephanie for choosing him to be her science partner and asks her to go to the prom with him, however his affection is met with scoff and ridicule.

Being driven home, Judy voices her frustration of her friend, Morgan's, attitude toward Lester, and angrily decides to walk the rest of the way.

The drunk seizes Lester by the throat and forces him into the cornfields outside his home where he strangles him to death then hangs him, making it look like a suicide, leaving his corpse near a scarecrow.

Later, one night the drunken boyfriend is decapitated with a scythe wielded by the same scarecrow Lester's body was found near.

Farmer Hayley finds blood on his scarecrow and on some corncobs, and the boy's body is later found by two locals.

The cops go to Lester's mother to find her in a state of shock then go to Famer Hayley who tells them that the town is haunted and a dwelling place for evil.

Later in art class Judy sketches a drawing of a human-bird hybrid implying she is possessed by Lester's soul.