Dark Harvest Book Adapted into Movie Releasing October 13

The movie Dark Harvest is based on a 2006 horror novel of the same name by Normal Partridge. Will the movie version remain true to the book version?

Hard to tell. However, a comparison of the descriptions for both suggests it’s going to do its best.

Let’s take a look at that, who’s in it, its release date, and trailer.

Dark Harvest Synopses

Here’s the movie synopsis from MGM:

In a cursed town, the annual harvest becomes a brutal battle for survival. On Halloween 1963, Sawtooth Jack, a terrifying legend, rises from the cornfields, threatening the town’s children. Groups of boys unite to defeat the murderous scarecrow before midnight. Richie, a rebellious outcast, joins the run, motivated by his brother’s previous victory. As the hunt progresses, Richie makes a shocking discovery and faces a pivotal choice to break the relentless cycle.

Here’s the book’s blurb:

Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.

Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He’s willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror—and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy.

Cast

The movie is directed by David Slade and stars Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer, Elizabeth Reaser, and Jeremy Davies.

Release Date

It will screen for one night only at Alamo Drafthouse Theaters on October 11. Then it will be available on digital on Friday, October 13.

Trailer

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