The Scarecrow

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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It's a funny film. The setting is the fictitious New Zealand small town of Klynham in the early 1950s, where each day's trivial events and each character in the motley population serve to divert Ned and Prudence from the truth of what is...

New Zealand Production

Feature 1981 Thriller 108.00 minutes

A murderer disguised as a magician seeks a teenage girl as his next victim. Can her brother save her? One summer's morning, 14-year-old Ned Poindexter and his friend Les discover that their chickens have been stolen. At the same time, 250 miles away in the city, a teenage girl is found floating in a pond - her throat cut. The two crimes, one so trivial and the other so diabolical, belong to the same story. In fact they're the opening frames of the film. A film in which an adolescent boy grapples with manhood, morality and the consequences of chicken stealing (both inflicted and perpetrated) while a murderer and sex maniac stalks his beautiful and beloved sister, the ripening Prudence.