10 More Brilliant Horror Movie Monsters You Were Completely Unprepared For
8. Harold - Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is filled to the brim with deeply unnerving boogeymen. However, none of them are as unexpectedly terrifying as Harold the scarecrow.
You'd think that The Lady in White or the Jangly Man would rank higher on the scare scale than Harold. While they're each spine-tingling in their own right, what gives Harold the edge is not how he looks, but what he does.
It'd be hard to argue that Tommy didn't have his fate coming. The kid was a total piece of bigoted garbage who was a danger to any and all around him. Though that doesn't mean that the spectacle of him turning into a scarecrow from the inside out was any easier to stomach.
Tommy's transformation could only be described as body horror plain and simple. Even for seasoned horror fans, the sight and sound of his body morphing into a hay-filled corpse is one that would make anyone cringe.