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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 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. Anchor Bay's letterboxed presentation is the R-rated theatrical cut (Kiersch's cut was longer and gorier) and includes the original trailer and a booklet outlining the story's transition from page to screen. --Paul Gaita
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3.0 out of 5 stars
It's only consider a Classic because it's one of Stephen Kings earlier works.....,,
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This review is from: The Children of the Corn (Widescreen) (DVD)
I had a feeling I wasn't going to like this but I manage to get through it. Nearly everything that Stephen King has ever written seems to have been turned into a film or TV series; in fact, I'm surprised that no one has tried to make a mini-series from the guy's grocery list. Let's face it, if they did, it couldn't be any less interesting than 'Children of the Corn.'Based on one of King's many short stories, this 1984 horror flick sees Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton playing a couple on a long car journey who run into a spot of bother when they chance upon the sleepy Nebraska town of Gatlin, where all of the adults have been murdered by children who worship an ancient evil that lurks in the corn fields. Although director Fritz Kiersch does manage to build a fair amount of atmosphere at the beginning (after Hamilton's silly song and dance, but before we get to meet the freakish Isaac, leader of the killer kids), he completely blows it with endless unexciting scenes in which Hamilton and Horton are hunted down by the town's homicidal half-pints. Courtney Gains, as violent redhead Malachai, manages to appear genuinely menacing, but the rest of the children are not the least bit threatening; as a result, many of the film's 'scary' moments fail to work. Towards the end of the film, when we finally get to see the malevolent force that inhabits the field surrounding Gatlin, the film descends into a glut of terrible 80s visual effects that probably looked pretty ropey almost 25 years ago, but look positively laughable nowadays. 'Children of the Corn' might be of interest to King fans keen to see how the writer's work has been translated to the big screen, but your average horror-film fan will be most unimpressed.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Children of the Corn,
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This review is from: The Children of the Corn (Widescreen) (DVD)
It took me forever to finally see this movie and I liked it! There was some poor dialogue in places, which hurt it a bit, but overall this one was good!
3.0 out of 5 stars
creepy music,but no real scares (2.5/5),
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not bad,i guess.it had some creepy moments,courtesy of some 'Omen' typemusic.you know,the chanting in Latin.it wasn't really scary,though.the concept is neat,but not wholly original.there was an original Star Trek episode that may have inspired the idea for the short story.and it also has elements of the 70's movie The Wicker Man.anyway,it's certainly got Stephen King written all over it.it's quite twisted,to say the least.it's not very graphic at all though.in fact,it's quite tame. i thought it could have been a TV movie,actually.i even checked this site to see if it was.the effects are cheesy,but i've seen a lot worse.the acting is OK,for the most part.but the guy who played Isaac was very convincing.he exuded evil.the acting by the children was adequate,i guess,although one of the girls was very good in her role.i did feel that the guy who played Malachi tended to overact a bit.he was kinda creepy though.there have been countless sequels,and watching this movie doesn't inspire me to run out and watch any of them,though i may watch them in time.for me,Children of the Corn is a 2.5/5
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