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Children of the Corn

1984 Directed by Fritz Kiersch

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.

Peter Horton Linda Hamilton R. G. Armstrong John Franklin Courtney Gains Anne Marie McEvoy

93 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Rainey Dawn ★★★★½ 1

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…
Review by nathaxnne walker ★★★ 6

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…
Review by Travis Lytle ★★★

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…
Review by JayFrost ★★★★★ 3

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. :-)
Review by Taylor Heider

I can't even give this movie a star rating. This was my absolute favorite film in sixth grade. I was obsessed. In my diary I wrote about this movie and how if I became president I would force everyone to watch this movie. I have no idea why! I called everyone "outlander" or "interloper". I thought Malachi was not only the best name ever (I made my friends call me that), but I thought he was so cool because of his outlander speech. Yikes.

This was interesting to rewatch and it definitely had that nostalgic value going for it but I don't know how much I would've liked this if I had been watching it for the first time.
Review by Whitney ★★★★ 3

This is such an underrated film that is constantly slaughtered by critics. It will forever remain one of my personal favorites.

Recent reviews

Review by Simon Ramshaw ★

Give me garmonbozia or give me death.
Review by lady_vengeance

Kids can't even throw a lit ass party with some blood play without adults ruining the fun.
Review by Derek Abbott ★★½

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Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★

The voice of Malachai is the scariest thing to happen in any Steven King adaptation.
Review by Nathaniel Thompson ★★★

Laughably padded at times but memorable and often creepy adaptation of the nightmarish Stephen King story, whose original ending would've had patrons running and screaming from the theater. Great score by Jonathan Elias, fun '80s atmosphere, decent turns by the kids and two adult leads... no classic for sure, but still a decent time waster on a slow evening. A couple of the sequels are a lot better than their direct-to-VHS origins would have you believe, too.
Review by Olivia Crosbie ½

garbage
Review by Jas ★★★★

I'm never having children.
Review by Angus

This has to have one of the worst endings I've ever seen. I was in stitches. It's so random and abrupt.
Review by TheCultureFreak ★★★★

Always enjoy watching Children of the corn , it's one of my favorite horror movies . Linda Hamilton is in it so that's great , it has a few weird kids that are great in it , i love that main tune that they always play in the movie and maybe i'm the only one but that tune always reminds me about the Home alone movies . I really like the vibe of this movie . A solid creepy fun movie . I'm a fan of the Children of the corn !