Scarecrow

Scarecrow is a short film announced by Mike Barkhoff, expected to be his fourth horror short, following Candlelight, Ready Or Not, and Breathe.

The initial idea came in 2018, when the project was first announced, during a shopping trip for fake blood that lead Barkhoff to finding a Scarecrow mask that spoke to him, which he immediately purchased.

Barkhoff announced filming for the project in 2019, but it seemingly fell through or was scrapped. In 2020, Barkhoff was working on a potential film series based around the character, with the plan to make a horror franchise that studies the others and avoids the cheesy installments that let the narrative crumble for fans' of those.

Barkhoff stated, in 2021, that the reason for the lengthy wait was to "avoid another Breathe scenario", his last horror short which he felt was a "great script but the product of us not having enough time to do great scripts."