Batman: Face of Fear (1994)

Inspired by World's Finest Comics #3, Re-Animator and Night of the Scarecrows.

A year later after The Riddler's reign of terror had come to an end as another time for Halloween was upon Gotham City. Bruce Wayne (Mel Gibson) is setting up another Halloween party after the city took some time recovering from everything that Edward Nygma had done, nearly psychologically breaking Wayne, murdering Daniel Mockridge and taking James Gordon hostage amongst other nefarious crimes, things have been going swimmingly as Barbara Gordon (Molly Ringwald) is interviewing some of Gotham's brilliant scientists at the local university, including the likes of the city's well known psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Crane (Harold Ramis) a man who has been studying on fears. However, later that night some of Crane's repressed memories, such as an event that gave him a lifelong Formidophobia, but one night as the good doctor was on a stroll, a small "prank" triggered his phobia by some unruly university students but that changes once the faculty found out some of Crane's unorthodox experiments with a developed toxin that makes it's subject hallucinate their worst nightmares and the moment Halloween dawns on Gotham, Crane takes on the being of his fear. The Scarecrow, the master of fear starts up a string of murders and experiments on others, making a fear induced-virus. Now, Batman and the GCPD need to stop The Scarecrow's horrid procedures as a possible fear-virus is spreading, will they make it in time or will Gotham suffer the goriest Halloween in history?

Story added by themaniax on March 3, 2022