A small-town tragedy unfolds when a developmentally-disabled boy, Bubba Ritter, is wrongly accused of attacking a young girl. Despite his innocence, he is brutally murdered by a group of vigilantes, led by a bitter postman named Otis P. Hazelrigg. However, after the truth is revealed, the vigilantes begin to meet a gruesome end, one by one, as if haunted by the spirit of a scarecrow.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow
In a small Southern town, a group of vigilantes' violent act of retribution against a mentally-challenged man sparks a deadly chain reaction, resulting in a series of unexplained and gruesome deaths that eventually claim their own lives.