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.
1984 Directed by Fritz Kiersch
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Planet Productions Angeles Entertainment Group Cinema Group Hal Roach Studios Gatlin Inverness Productions
Cosecha negra, Filhos do Mal, Kukuričné deti, Dödlig skörd, Children of the corn - Les démons du maïs, Horror Kid, Djeca kukuruza, La cosecha del terror: los niños del maíz, Niños diabólicos, Dzieci kukurydzianego pola, Deca kukuruza, Otroci koruze, Stephen King's Children of the Corn, 镰刀梦魇, Los chicos del maíz, Kinder des Zorns, Grano rosso sangue, Os Filhos da Terra, Les Démons du maïs, Деца кукуруза, Дети кукурузы, A kukorica gyermekei, Colheita Maldita, Kukuřičné děti, 옥수수 밭의 아이들, Copii porumbului, Dzieci Kukurydzy, Децата на царевицата, 玉米田的小孩, Maissilapset, Korku Çocukları, Ο Δολοφόνος με το Δρεπάνι, Los niños del maíz, チルドレン・オブ・ザ・コーン, Els nens de les panotxes, Діти кукурудзи, อาถรรพ์ทุ่งนรก, Những Đứa Trẻ Của Đồng Ngô
Why was this so boring... corn fields are scary, cults are scary, children are scary... so why wasn’t this scary? The ending was so anticlimactic that it was funny
The last time I had seen this movies was in the 80s. I remember that I enjoyed it, I remember it was taken from one of Stephen King’s books and I remember the creepy kid Isaac. Other than that I couldn’t remember anything else before today. It is a very good good movie! Very creepy! A prime example of why you don’t drive the back roads! Also a role with a 20 something Linda Hamilton. If you want to check it out you can on Hulu.
Midwest Midsommar.
I first encountered an inkling of this supernatural folk horror killer kid cult corn jam’s existence from the Night Shift paperback.
A specific edition of said book featured the movie poster for this as it’s cover, and it was sticking out from my mother’s bag while on a long drive from New Jersey deep into Pennsylvania. I gazed at it for what felt like hours as we drove through the winding rural farm filled backroads... running my hands over the creased orange cover and spotting the eyes in the cornstalks.
I didn’t read/watch the story/movie until a few years later when, on another driving excursion with my folks, I HBO watched this under cover of blankets at a…
The literal definition of “fuck them kids bro”
They did say ACAB though so they weren’t 100% wrong
Why was I able to watch this on a beautiful 4k Blu-ray? Some amusingly weird child performances and ok mood occasionally but very boring and obviously drawn out from a much shorter story. Needed a lot more child murder. Wouldn't even crack the top 25 of the "fuck them kids" canon.
Federal subsidies for increased ethanol output, being a terrible and costly biofuel program which takes more energy to make than it supplies, only makes sense as an effort to supplicate He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
Children Of The Corn is not a good movie but I do like the eerie corn-based religious artifacts and Our Saviour Linda Hamilton as always. The fact that I have watched this movie on purpose multiple times speaks to something I guess. I am drawn to folk horror and Children Of The Corn is America's effort at Heartland Folk Horror in an era marked by an accelerating death of family farms due in large part to the aggressively state-sponsored consolidation and spread of big…