The Scarecrow That Turns Its Head: Halloween Horror AI Video Prompt

Create a slow-burn, photorealistic Halloween horror short, 24 seconds, vertical 9:16, about a scarecrow that turns to face a farmer each time the camera cuts away. Creepy through atmosphere and suspense only: no gore, no jump-scare noise blasts, no violence.

CHARACTER A (the farmer): a man in his sixties with a grey stubble beard, a worn brown canvas jacket, a plaid flannel shirt, a flat cap and rubber boots, carrying an old metal lantern.
CHARACTER B (the scarecrow): a tall, thin scarecrow with a stitched burlap sack head with two dark button eyes and a sewn-on frown, a battered black wide-brimmed hat, a torn grey coat stuffed with straw at the cuffs and collar, mounted on a wooden cross-post. Straw pokes out everywhere. It never visibly moves on camera; it only changes position between shots.

SETTING: one dry cornfield at dusk with tall brown corn stalks, a narrow dirt path, an old red wooden barn with its door half open, a crooked fence, crows on the fence, low fog, and a blood-orange sky turning to deep blue.

CINEMATOGRAPHY: slow, steady shots; 35mm lens; the same wide framing of the scarecrow repeated each time; cold blue dusk light with the warm lantern as the only warm source; drifting fog; desaturated colour; fine film grain; 24 fps.

[00:00-00:04] THE FIELD — Wide shot: the scarecrow stands in the corn, facing away toward the sunset. The farmer walks past along the path with his lantern, glancing at it.
[00:04-00:08] THE FIRST TURN — Close-up of the farmer hanging the lantern on the fence. Cut back to the same wide shot: the scarecrow's head is now turned sideways, toward the path.
[00:08-00:12] THE SECOND TURN — The farmer stops and looks. Cut to the scarecrow: now its whole body faces him, button eyes catching the lantern light. The crows fly off the fence at once.
[00:12-00:16] THE EMPTY POST — The farmer turns back to his lantern, then looks up slowly. Cut to the wide shot: the wooden post is empty; only the hat lies on the ground.
[00:16-00:20] THE BARN — The farmer backs toward the barn, lantern shaking. Inside the dark barn, the lantern light swings across hay bales and tools; nothing there.
[00:20-00:24] THE PAYOFF — He turns to close the barn door; in the gap between the doors, the scarecrow stands silently right behind it, button eyes glinting. Hard cut to black.

SOUND: wind through dry corn, distant crows, a creaking wooden post, the farmer's breathing, the lantern's metal handle squeaking, crows taking off all at once, then a single low cello drone that stops dead at the cut to black.
RULES: no gore, no violence, no screaming, the scarecrow never visibly walks on camera, no text, no logos.

Slow-burn photoreal Halloween horror, 24 s, vertical, no gore: at dusk in a foggy dry cornfield, a farmer in a canvas jacket and flat cap walks past a burlap-headed scarecrow with button eyes and a black hat. Each time the camera cuts back to the same wide shot, the scarecrow has turned further toward him; the crows fly off; then the post is empty with only the hat on the ground. He backs into the dark barn with his shaking lantern, and when he turns to close the door the scarecrow is standing silently right behind it. Cold blue dusk, warm lantern, 35mm, wind and a low cello drone, hard cut to black, no text.

Farmer: Sixties, grey stubble beard, worn brown canvas jacket, plaid flannel shirt, flat cap, rubber boots, carries an old metal lantern.

Scarecrow: Tall thin scarecrow, stitched burlap sack head with two dark button eyes and a sewn-on frown, battered black wide-brimmed hat, torn grey coat stuffed with straw.

gore, blood, violence, screaming, monsters, scarecrow walking on camera, text, watermark, cartoon

Don't look away from the scarecrow. 🌽👁️

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