The Scarecrow (1982)

Directors

Sam Pillsbury

Cast

Jono Smith, Tracy Mann, John Carradine, Daniel McLaren, Bruce Allpress, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Philip Holder, Denise O'Connell, Jonathan Hardy, Anne Flannery, Desmond Kelly, Doug Hastings, Simon Phillips, Roy Billing, Greer Robson, Martyn Sanderson, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Yvonne Lawley, Elizabeth McRae, Elizabeth Moody, Ted Coyle, Duncan Smith, Paul Owen-Lowe, Greg Naughton, Mark Hadlow, John Kempt, Norman Forsey, Bill Walker, Margaret Blay, Sarah Nathan, Anna Marbrook

The story

Set in the fictitious New Zealand small town of Klynham in the early 1950s, teenagers Ned Poindexter (Jonathan Smith) and his friend Les (Daniel McLaren) start raising chickens, only to have them stolen. While stealing them back from Victor, the school bully, they inadvertently cross the path of a murderer who had slain a girl in the woods. When more girls in the town are killed, and Ned's 16-year old sister, Prudence (Tracy Mann) becomes the new target, Ned begins to suspect that an unsettling town newcomer – travelling magician and hypnotist Hubert Salter (David Carradine), who is living at the undertaker’s place, is responsible.

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