44 Years Ago, This Vicious Horror Movie Introduced Us to One of the Greatest and Most Enduring Villains of the Genre

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What are the greatest TV horror movies? Perhaps it's the IT miniseries, which could be watched as one long feature. A beloved contender is the 1992 British mockumentary Ghostwatch. Using real-life BBC presenters, it became controversial for how it played with realism when a ghost hunt on air went terribly wrong. A decade earlier, however, another TV movie scared viewers differently. Released on CBS in 1981, Dark Night of the Scarecrow was about small-town secrets and revenge from beyond the grave. It's regarded as the first scarecrow horror movie, and it might still be the one that did it best.

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