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This is some excit­ing news for fans of vin­tage made-for-t.v. hor­ror fare: Dark Night Of The Scarecrow is finally com­ing to DVD.  The new disc from VCI is going to be remas­tered from the orig­i­nal ele­ments and will boast a com­men­tary track and a deleted scene.  Keep read­ing for all the rural-revenge details — and please note that VCI had the good taste to quote the AMG review of Dark Night Of The Scarecrow penned by Your Humble Reviewer…

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW:

“Scary as hell!” ─ Stuart Gordon, Director of Re-Animator

“Terrific script…terrific film!” ─ Ray Bradbury

“This clas­sic began the whole scare­crow genre.” ─ HorrorHound Magazine

“Mar-vel-ous! I was ter­ri­fied!” ─ Vincent Price

“Now… I fear scare­crows!” ─ Gunnar Hansen “Leatherface”

“one of the best made-for-television hor­ror films ever…” — Donald Guarisco, AMG Review

When young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe) is found viciously mauled, all hell breaks loose in her small rural town. Officious Post Master Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) leads a gang of big­ots in pur­suit of the sus­pect, her men­tally chal­lenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). Finding him hid­ing inside a scare­crow, they exact bru­tal mob “jus­tice”… only to dis­cover a tragic mis­take! Now a strange appari­tion stalks the land seek­ing each of them out, and the leg­end of the Scarecrow begins.

• Debuted October 24, 1981 on CBS with a record break­ing 38 share nationally.

• Ran 2 con­sec­u­tive years on CBS for Halloween then con­tin­ued for 7 more years on Turner.

• Passed stan­dards and poli­cies for fam­ily view­er­ship on tele­vi­sion for a made for tele­vi­sion hor­ror film.

• Has achieved a cult sta­tus and spawned mul­ti­ple fan­sites and forums push­ing for its DVD release.

• Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scene.

• Remastered in high def­i­n­i­tion from the 35mm neg­a­tive with a new 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound Mix.

Special DVD Features:

Commentary with Frank De Felitta and J.D. Feigelson, plus the original

CBS promo for the movie. English and Spanish subtitles.

UPC:089859820021 / ITEM #8200 / ISBN: 1–55739-666–3

CASE LOT QTY: 30 / $19.99 SRP / ASPECT RATIO: 1.33:1

Dolby Digital 5.1 / NTSC / All Region / English Language

1981 / Color / Not Rated / 96 min

Pre-Order Date: 8/31/2010

Street Date: 9/28/2010