Children of the Corn
1984 Directed by Fritz Kiersch
Synopsis
In their world adults are not allowed... to live.
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
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As if I wasn't already scared of rednecks and cornfields
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This is one that everyone I knew was frightened of. When I was a kid, this was in a special category of movies along with It and The Shining that really kept you from sleeping. I never had a chance to watch it back then, so I decided to give it a shot now.
I read the original story not too long ago and that usually either makes watching the film more enjoyable or much less enjoyable.
Even within 5 minutes, it was clear that they'd changed a number of things about the story. I understand some of the changes but others took away things I felt were really compelling aspects of the plot. There are also dashes of really…
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First the story: it opens with the entire (fictional) town of Gatlin, Nebraska, falling to a group of children who have taken to the worship and leadership of the charismatic Isaac Chroner (John Franklin), a new boy in town, who threatens them all with a mysterious entity that lives in the cornfield, or more precisely "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" (though it turns out to be rather more under the corn than behind them.) In any event, the adults are swiftly killed off, and all-but two children, Job (Robby Kiger) and his little sister Sarah (Anne Marie McEvoy), the former in church and the latter in bed ill at the time this coup is being plotted in the cornfields…
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"He was already dead when he stumbled out into the road."
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Lame, dull, and unintentionally hilarious.
"Who's there? Oh, it's just the wind." *facepalm*
Stephen King's original short story is a wonderful idea for a feature film but unfortunately it's let down by a hack who doesn't know how to frighten his audience and writers who couldn't be arsed to come up with any decent dialogue. Children of the Corn limps from one poor attempt at horror to the next - most noticeably when John Franklin appears as the malevolent Issac. He's about as scary as a Tickle-Me-Elmo with the voice of a drag queen suffering from severe throat cancer.
What really fails here though is the casting of the super-cute kids who when open their mouths or smile with those overly bright pearly-white teeth it kills any ounce of tension the film could quite possibly have.
Watch the intriguing first five minutes, switch off and save your soul.
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Why does Stephen King always fuck up the end of his stories? Everything was going well untill Satan himself started to take the children. Nevertheless it was a fun watch.
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Thanks to "he who walks between the rows" and his buddies, I refused to go near a corn field for years as a child. This was problematic because I lived across the road from one. The movie is cheesy and dated but still kind of fun.
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As if I wasn't already scared of rednecks and cornfields
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No hay nada más terrorífico que una secta de niños en mitad de la nada, sólo rodeados de maíz. Una vez asumido esto, valoro por encima de todo la BSO. El score principal es AMOR y ya de peque me asustaba horrores sólo eso.
Es una buena pelicula de suspense-terror light con dosis pequeñas de gore nivel 1. Y, por supuesto, otro clasicazo de la época.
Los malos malosos se dividen en 2 grupos: los niños (liderados por Isaac y el gran MALACHAI que le hace sombra) y ÉL (atención a los efectos especiales!).
Siempre es un placer disfrutarla
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Pretty good movie. Not too scary, but not cheesy. Well, maybe those effects were a bit cheesy.
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It's terrible, but I loved every minute of it. I have a passion for bad-good horror movies (see my future list), and this definately holds a soft spot. Malachi and Isaac has great lines that are infintely quotable. There is little to be said about this film, other than that if you don't enjoy bad-good movies, you will have little to do with this film. Reveal in its terribleness, or else you'll have little fun.
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Ideal para viernes santo.
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One of those classics I had not seen as a kid, so I had to watch it now... Could have survived without ever seeing this film really.
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Cool premise for a story but not a very good movie. Malachai is creepy.
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"He was already dead when he stumbled out into the road."