"Linda Hamilton is too tough to ever be captured by a group of children." - My husband's review based on the one minute he saw as he passed through the room.
Children of the Corn must have been on TV constantly when I was a kid, because it was my second favorite horror movie (after People Under the Stairs) until Scream. I remember having nightmares about the jump scare at the end, but that wasn't enough to deter me. Now that I'm watching it again, maybe for the first time as an adult, it's definitely not as good as my memory of it was. I love a nostalgic favorite though, so I still liked watching it, and I will watch it again.
PS: Isaac is also Cousin Itt in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and that is awesome.
Children of the Corn
In their world adults are not allowed... to live.
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
3/9/1984Runtime
92 minsOverview
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$800,000Revenue
$14,568,989Homepage
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How It Feels
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A bleak folk-horror nightmare where the familiar heartland becomes sinister and children become instruments of cult violence. It's the kind of film that makes you distrust the pastoral and fear the very young.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingTense
Themes
FaithCorruptionSurvivalComing of age
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceChild endangerment
Reviews
Children of the Corn Collection
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