A young couple comes across a small town named Gatlin where the adults are dead and the children have taken over. This group of disgusting children is lead by a boy preacher named Isaac who apparently ordered all adults to be killed 3 years ago. The children seem to be under some kind of spell and practise some new religion that has something to do with some demonic figure who walks in the cornfields. So it's up to the couple to break the spell, get rid of the preacher boy and free the children. zzZZzzZZzz...
I'm not a Stephen King fan, I've read a couple of his books that were ok and seen some movies were they used his stories as adaption for the screen that were ok too but as I said, I'm not a fan of his. He has done some ok stuff but also a lot of horrible stuff that only have become famous because the guy has his name on it.
Children of the Corn is a horrible movie that is slow and boring without ever being scary. The story itself is not that bad but the way they made the movie come out just plain sucks. It's a well-known movie among horror film fans but I've never heard of anyone who actually really liked it.
I guess it was better to watch this when it came out in '84 than to watch it now, but even back then there were a lot better movies to choose from of course. I remember seeing Children of the Corn as a kid and it had absolutely no effect on me.
That's really something since most horror movies I saw at a really young age always had some kind of effect. But as said before, it's a horrible boring movie actually starring a young Linda Hamilton (T2).
There are many sequels to this movie and they are all real shitty. I can't say that the original movie is good and that the rest is just bad since all the movies in the series are truly bad, even the first one. Also I don't understand how they can make so many sequels of one really bad movie to begin with.
So first off even if the story is ok it's still very boring on screen and the children are terrible to watch. They are not scary and you feel no sympathy for them whatsoever, they are just boring and irritating to watch. The effects are terrible and the movie is very slow-paced, so slow at times that it actually hurts to watch.
They could've done much more with the actual cornfield since that could've been a genuinely creepy place with just the right settings but unfortunately we don't get to see anything cool that involves the cornfield, it's just as boring as the kids or the whole movie in general.
I give it a 2 since the story of the novel is ok but if you're looking for a good horror movie, look elsewhere.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Stephen King's Children of the Corn
MOVIE YEAR: 1984
DIRECTOR: Fritz Kiersch
WRITING CREDITS: Stephen King, George Goldsmith
GENRE: Horror, Fantasy
CAST: Peter Horton, John Franklin, Linda Hamilton
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 93 min
RATING: 2/10
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