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Children of the Corn's strong premise and beginning gets shucked away for a kiddie thriller that runs in circles. Read critic reviews
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As physician Burt Stanton (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Linda Hamilton), drive across the Midwest to his new job, their trip comes to a sudden halt when they encounter the body of a murdered boy in the road. In trying to contact the authorities, Burt and Vicky wander into a small town populated only by children, followers of sinister young preacher Isaac Chroner (John Franklin). Soon the couple is fleeing the youthful fanatics, who want to sacrifice them to their demonic deity.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Fritz Kiersch
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Producer: Terrence Kirby, Donald P. Borchers
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Writer: George Goldsmith, Stephen King
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Embassy Pictures, Starmaker Video, Image Entertainment Inc., New World Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment
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Production Co: Hal Roach Studios Inc.
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Sound Mix: Mono
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Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Flat (1.85:1)
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Critic Reviews for Children of the Corn
Audience Reviews for Children of the Corn
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A mess of contradictory tones and creative ideas, yet weirdly enjoyable. I love the musical score despite its sometimes ridiculous turns (the English spoken-word child chants are hit or miss). There's a gruesome off screen stabbing that feels especially chilling and cringe inducing- and yet one of the kids utters a snap-worthy 'excuse me!' during the film's climax. There were people working on this film who cared and those creative fumes barely made it out from underneath the hood of this absolute moving mess.
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Awful. This is one of the dumbest films I've ever seen, and I feel a lot dumber for having watched it. I know that Stephen King is capable of writing really good works of drama and horror, but there's just times where his writing flat-out blows. That's how movies like this get made, and this is fucking dreadful.
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"Outlander!" An iconic '80s horror film, Children of the Corn is a chilling tale from Stephen King. Based on one of his short stories, a couple traveling cross-country stop at a small town called Gatlin where they discover a cult of children that have overthrown the adults and sacrificed them to their new god. Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton lead the cast, but there are no good performances here. However, the director does a good job at creating a creepy, atmospheric tone that's full of suspense. And for the most part the terror is kept psychological, which is quite effective. While Children of the Corn is full of bad acting and cheesy effects, it ends up being the right mixture for an entertaining campy B-movie.
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And our horror month continues with another slightly below average horror film. I'm having the absolute worst luck picking decent horror movies this month. Anyway, I didn't really like this movie. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, just pretty below average. A large problem is that the movie doesn't really wanna tell you how the children came to be the way they are. Apparently, Stephen King had written a backstory detailing what happened to the kids that made them murder every adult in town. I thought that would've made for a more interesting movie than what we ended up getting here. However I did think some of the ideas here were cool, Isaac being this preacher that is being told by this 'monster' what to do, and how he lies to the other kids in the village in order to do his bidding. That was pretty decent, but I don't know, the movie just lacks something. It's not really scary to be honest and it's really not that gory. The movie just relies on the murderous kids to tell its "story". What I liked about Come Out and Play, another movie with murderous children, is that they were still happy and carefree children. They played, laughed, ran around, etc. They did everything kids do with the one little exception that they were murderous maniacs. And I think that's infinitely scarier than having mean looking kids, like in this movie. It just looks and feels goofy. The acting is adequate for a horror movie, though I must say that John Franklin, Isaac, was way over-the-top in his delivery. He had some scenes were he was fine, but the over-the-top scenes certainly take the cake. The movie also has one of the most random endings I've ever seen. After killing Malachi, Isaac, and the monster, I don't even know what it was, Burt, Vicky, and the kids decide to leave for Seattle. Burt gets in the car and finds out that one of the "kids" had been hiding in there waiting to kill him. He stops her, slams the car door in her face and then the movie just ends. It was so ridiculous, that I couldn't help but laugh. This movie's not bad, I just think it could've used a little more backstory and more interesting scares rather than just relying on murderous children for its horror.
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