Isaac and Malachai are still creepy looking cats (both played effectively by John Franklin and Courtney Gains). When I read the short story, I was freaked out beyond belief, and strangely while I read it, I was in a car at night going down a road with corn fields on the side of the road.
This movie's strengths are the effectively creepy mood in the beginning, which builds nicely to a point near the end, and the repulsive charisma of the two villains Isaac (cult leader) and Malachi (ambitious 2nd in command, all-around bad apple). The film version of Children of the Corn differs vastly from King’s original work. While some scenes in this flick are laughable today, I remember seeing it as a young boy and being scared witless. Tag: Children of the corn.
Some good some not so swell.
It will always be one of the great horror flicks of all time, in my opinion. This is a really disappointing adaptation of an excellent and terrifying short story which appeared as part of American horror novelist Stephen King's first anthology of short stories, 1978's 'Night Shift'.
I liked the part with Sarah (the young girl) in the beginning and her nightmares but then it went downhill, and then some. I, personally, love this movie, although I started the second one and I couldn't finish it because I was laughing too hard. But I really liked it and watched it over and over. It is a collection of short stories, one of which is "Children Of The Corn." Theories. The only even remotely clever bits such as the depiction of the mob mentality engendered by cults are taken from either much better works or, unfortunately, real life incidents. Was this review helpful? But anyway, a 7th Corn Movie is on its way, and it's on Post Production last time I checked, so maybe things have turned around! Was this review helpful? Unlike a lot of horror films, especially many of the modern slashers, Children of the Corn managed to be a terrifying tale without much gore. I give it an 8 out of 10! [Review] “The Boys” Season Two Gets Bigger, Bloodier, and Even BetterSam Raimi’s “50 States of Fright” Returns to Quibi for a Brand New Season in October“I’m Supposed to Kill God”: Preview the Final Seven Episodes of “Supernatural” [Video][Fantasia Review] ‘The Block Island Sound’ Is a Daring Horror Mish-Mash[Fantasia Review] Anthology Film ‘The Mortuary Collection’ Offers Meta Morality Tales[Review] “The Boys” Season Two Gets Bigger, Bloodier, and Even Better[Fantasia Review] ‘Alone’ Is a Survival Thriller at Its Simplest[Review] Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a Genre-Defying Mind-Bender‘Scary Movie’ May Be Outdated But It’s Still Pretty Damn Funny [You Aughta Know]‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ and The Easter Bunny from Hell‘Hardware II: Ground Zero’: Richard Stanley Revisits the Sequel He Still Hopes to Make [Phantom Limbs]‘Secret Window’ and the Thin Line of Dissociative Identity Disorder Representation [Unveiling The Mind]Imaginary Friend ‘Z’ Reveals Himself In This Exclusive Clip [Video]The Classic Vampire Returns This October in ‘Mimesis: Nosferatu’ and We’ve Got the Trailer [Exclusive]The Smiley Men Attack in the Latest Clip from ‘The New Mutants’“I’m Supposed to Kill God”: Preview the Final Seven Episodes of “Supernatural” [Video]‘The Strangers’ Director Conjures Up Fresh New Horrors in ‘The Dark and the Wicked’ [Trailer][Gamescom 2020] Horrorpunk Action RPG ‘Morbid: The Seven Acolytes’ Gets a New Gameplay Trailer Full of Cosmic Horrors and Cronenbergian Gore[Gamescom 2020] The Superbly Sinister ‘Song of Horror’ Heads to Consoles in Time For Halloween[Gamescom 2020] ‘Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition’ Stomps Onto The Switch November 3 [Trailer][Gamescom 2020] ‘DOOM Eternal’ DLC “The Ancient Gods, Part One” Launches October 20 [Trailer]‘Observer: System Redux’ Announced For Steam Release; Demo Available Until August 30As the years go by, the children continue to sacrifice those who age into adulthood, and any interlopers that happen to stumble into town.– A couple, Vicky and Burt, are driving across the country for Burt’s medical internship.
Then pick a row for yourself and join me in loving this wonderful treat of a film! 9 out of 14 found this helpful. The children are led by a boy preacher named Isaac Chorner and his henchman Malachai. "Children of the Corn" is an enjoyable horror film with a few creepy scenes and some good shocks.The acting is decent enough,and the atmosphere of an isolated town(Gatlin)is well-captured.I've seen the first four parts of this series and they are not really bad(want some crap-check out "Witchcraft" series)Enough said-try this one if you enjoy watching horror movies.Very atmospheric score too! But there is no denying that Children of the Corn is one of the best horror films EVER made. Was this review helpful? The movie is a much more "standard" horror flick, and there are some unintentionally goofy moments: He Who Walks Between the Rows burrowing through the fields like Bugs Bunny comes to mind. Children of the corn is a 1984 film based on the short story by Stephen King.
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. One time while I was at the library I checked out a book of his called "Night Shift."
But all the more chilling was an unseen, Evil Force who a group of murderous children happily calls "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" (Rows, meaning rows of corn in a corn-field) The image you get of this "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" character is simply Satan with a new nick … As for the rest of the story if you really want to know you'll have to watch the movie yourself.
9 out of 16 found this helpful. The café scene and the accidental hit and run are the standouts of the movie, it's pretty grisly stuff.
So do not bother with those.
Was this review helpful? It never explained anything that happened, like why Job and Sarah seemed to be immune to the thrall of the cult that Isaac so easily asserts upon the other children in the town.