If you’ve ever looked at a scarecrow and thought, “yeah, that thing’s definitely watching me,” Crimzon Harvest is about to validate that feeling.

Stacked with genre heavy-hitters like Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Robert Mukes (House of 1000 Corpses), and Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), this meta-slasher is aiming for a late summer release, and it’s bringing a pitchfork full of trouble with it.

The setup is deliciously cursed. A broke family lets a low-budget horror production take over their farm, because what could possibly go wrong when you invite fake murder onto your property? Answer: real murder. A supernatural scarecrow wakes up, presumably clocks in, and starts turning the set into a harvest of bad choices and worse outcomes.

Directed by Xander Goldman, with practical effects handled by Paul Sutt (Seed of Chucky, Van Helsing), this thing looks like it’s leaning hard into that crunchy, practical, dirt-under-the-fingernails horror where you can almost smell the hay and the impending doom.

Also worth noting: Goldman isn’t just behind the camera, he’s also playing the scarecrow, which feels like a bold career move and possibly a cry for help.

Crimzon Harvest is currently growing its roots via Indiegogo, so if you fancy helping unleash a killer scarecrow into the world then click the link.