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
These are some of the brattiest and most terrifying "creepy kids" ever on film. IDK who is worse: Malachi or Issac? Issac is the (evil) reverend that started it all but it is Malachi that has the strongest lust for blood - murder or umm sacrifices "to He Who Walks Behind The Rows"" and will even defy Issac to kill.
This film is a classic horror in it's own right. It's a part of the 60's through 80's horror classics that many of us grew up with. The film is downright terrifying at times. It's a supernatural horror film that has stood the test of time - quite a good one if you ask me.
I've never read Stephen King's…
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…
Creepy children. Creepy children spouting pseudo-Bible verse. Creepy children spouting pseudo-Bible verse and murdering people of over the age of 18. These are the main ingredients of "Children of the Corn," a horror film based on a short story by Stephen King, and they are the ingredients that make the film an effective genre outing.
The film wrings all it can out of its murderous-children-in-a-small-town plot. Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton, playing the couple who stumble upon Gatlin, Nebraska only to find it devoid of adults and full of the aformentioned creepy children, are put through tense and bloody paces as they try to stay alive and maybe even save the children. Though the narrative may not satisfy everyone thanks…
One of my favorite movies by Stephen King based on his short stories. What I mean about short stories is why make more based on the same damn thing? Lol anyway the second one is good too. :-)
I actually never saw this growing up...at least not that I remember. I’m pretty sure that the first time I saw it was no more than 10 years ago. I possibly saw every sequel before I finally saw this because the sequels were spit out on a yearly basis during my teenage times...and I worked at a video store for part of that time so DTV sequels were just a thing of mine...but I digress.
Everyone knows the story, I assume. All the chih-rins of Gatlin suddenly kill all the adults and then along come Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton do just get all up in it. It’s honestky a little hard to believe that this movie spawned 7 sequels…
A childhood favorite, this movie terrified me as a preteen, was one of my first VHS tapes, and (along with 2 and 3) became a staple of my late teen years.
Then it vanished.
One day in my early twenties it disappeared from my yearly viewing rotations until this summer, when I kinda fell in love with it all over again. The first two acts are gold for me, before everything gets a bit wonky towards the end, but tbh I don’t think I could ever not enjoy this crazy movie with its amazing opening slaughter scene THAT REALLY MESSED UP 8 YEAR OLD ME.
Also, for 20 years now - I’ve been gleefully Screaming OUTLANDER (and occasionally Interloper) at people which gives me quite the thrill.
Some cool cultist art( the painted over Jesus/wall decorations in the first scene with Isaac)
Damals hätte er von mir vielleicht noch die 3 Sterne bekommen. Aber nach den heutigen Standards etwas zu altbacken als das ich Ihn als soliden Durchschnitts-Horrorstreifen bezeichnen kann.
This film sounds like Goblin and Disney had a baby - I always forget how freaky it is, and there are some pretty startling scares.
Also, the dialogue totally kills me
The delightful little sister to Who Can Kill a Child?
I did not remember that this had as bad of acting as it did. Those kid actors were pretty bad, but I was so into it!! I loved it. It’s a very poor movie, yet enjoyable because of it. You can tell that the movie was directly out of the source material. Like WAAAAY too close to the source material. I’d love to watch all the other B movies in the franchise.
I have to say that despite the appearance of Linda Hamilton, this is a B-movie at best. Now that doesn't mean it's not entertaining. It very much is. It's extremely cheap looking, sounding, and honestly performed in a very mediocre manner.
But there is one thing that saves it.
Those damn creepy children. Whomever cast this film...bravo. The children are some of the creepiest children put on film and it is them alone that simply makes the film work much better than it otherwise should.
Not scary at all, but absolutely hilarious (past the first thirty minutes, which are boring as hell.
Best\worst final scare of a horror movie though
every time Isaac said "MALACHAI" I leveled up
super cheesy and I get why people might not like it but I really really enjoyed it anyway.
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