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Plot: The murder rate is as high as an elephant's eye in this flaccid adaptation of Stephen King's short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife ...( read more read more... )Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." King's original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. --Paul Gaita

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  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 8, 2008
    I preferred the first half of this film to the second, I feel it started off quite well as a classic Horror and very typically Stephen King, it just went on a little too long.

    Reminded me of the (much later) French film ?Them?.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 2, 2008
    The first night I spent in my apartment in Iowa this movie was on. I was a bit scared cause my back door opened to a corn field.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 31, 2008
    Growing up in Indiana....this movie scared the crap out of me because of all the corn fields we have.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 12, 2008
    10-12-08 --Not too scary but the acting is sure frightening. The reasoning in this movie is short of believable. It could have been the acting but who knows. I was looking for scary and all I got was boring. The best part of the movie was the last 10 minutes of it. And what the heck was that red glowing stuff? Was that suppose to be the devil. Very poorly done.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 20, 2008
    Job and Sarah were cute, and Malachi was the ugliest kid I've ever seen. Not sure if Issac was a midget or an ugly kid or a kid in makeup, but it was odd looking as well. Not sure this movie made ANY sense. It could have been just fine as a stand alone 'child zealot cult' that killed adults, but for some stupid reason at the end it shifts gears for the worse. All of the sudden some really bad yellow effects crap is everywhere and you half expect to see kevin Bacon running from the mysterious tremors that come racing through the corn. Steven King likes to ruin more movies that way with terrible effects (i.e. the langoliers).

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  • MissHorrorChillerGurlFromHell
    kwl movie and i think issac is
    funny cuz hes short
    and i like the way he talks:)
    posted 163 days ago
  • StandByMeFanatic
    lol yeah deffinatly a beastly midget lol!!
    this movie rox but all stephen king movies rock
    posted 534 days ago
  • tmac14621
    Children of the Corn! It was a funny yet sick and twisted movie! I loved it and Issac is a beastly midget!!!!
    posted 658 days ago