10 Best Hidden Gem Halloween Horror Movies

While the gore is minimal, CBS' Dark Night of the Scarecrow is genuinely unsettling at so many points and brilliantly works the less-is-more approach.

A made-for-TV feature, the film opens by introducing us to Bubba, a mentally challenged adult, and young Marylee. Bubba and Marylee are best pals who spend their time making flower necklaces and just generally goofing around. However, when a dog attacks Marylee and seemingly kills her, a group of small-minded townsfolk believe Bubba killed the girl, and they're out to exact some skewed revenge.

This culminates in Bubba, desperately trying to hide by disguising himself as a scarecrow, hunted down and murdered by four locals. The catch is, Marylee wasn't killed and was actually saved from that dog by Bubba. Placing a pitchfork on Bubba's corpse to make it look like he attacked them first, the four's trial for Bubba's murder is thrown out of court due to a lack of evidence.

Still, justice is very much served when Bubba's spirit torments his killers from beyond the grace, all as the four start to turn on one another. As alluded to, some of the fates of these men are extremely grim to imagine, even if what we see is fairly minimal. For example, one fella is stuck in a grain silo, where he's slowly suffocated by his own crops.