Lifeless, human-shaped figures made of straw are already creepy sights, whether as decorations for autumn-themed events or when hung up on posts in the middle of a cornfield. That is before movies ...

CASSELTON, N.D. — The “laser scarecrow” doesn’t have menacing red eyes beneath a straw hat or beams shooting out from corn husk fingers extending out from an old flannel shirt. A laser ...