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| Director: Fritz Kiersch
Actors: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.g. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 15377
Format: Color, Ep, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302720419
UPC: 092091003138
EAN: 9786302720419
ASIN: 6302720419
Theatrical Release Date: March 9, 1984
Release Date: September 10, 1997
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 Garbage Pail Kids! October 9, 2007
THE MAIN MAN (Central Bookin', NY)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm sorry people but this is a godawful movie. I recently saw this again because I didn't remember it clearly from years ago. Too bad I reminded myself on how much of a trash film this is. Its going to take me another 15 years to erase this from memory.
The story is kind of interesting but still pretty stupid to me. All of the grown ups in a small town is wiped out by the youth. This is done due to them following the orders of a demon from the corn field. They form a cult that basically revokes them from being kids. They're not allowed to play and have fun. A couple end up in their town for a certain reason. They are later chased and even captured by the kids.
The problems with this movie to me is. Its not scary at all and the gore is very low. The acting on part of the children was very annoying to me. Even towards the end when the demon began to surface.
Seriously, I wish I knew what everyone who loves this movie saw in it. And to think, this somehow spawned like 5 sequels or something like that.
 It's only consider a Classic because it's one of Stephen Kings earlier works..... October 9, 2008
Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
For a Stephen King Film Adaptation:VERY POOR July 4, 1999
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love Stephen King films like Misery and the Shining, but I think that it is tacky. I still try to rent others in the series for one reason only, a jolly good laugh.
Oh my God!! August 27, 2001
Carlos Calderon (Mexico City Mexico Coyoacan)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Don't be fooled by the previous reviews which tell you how great this movie is. Bad acting, no horror, bad effects. I played this DVD for my friends and now they won't talk to me. Stay away from it...
This is horror? April 18, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I recently read a review by hucklecat03 on this movie. I have to say it made me laugh when he says that "you'll be more entertained by eating corn that watching Children of the Corn". It made me laugh because he is SO RIGHT. This movie is not scary and it's not good. As a fan of Stephen King I have to say I was extremely disappointed at this laughable attempt for a frightfest. I'm just wondering how a bunch of young punks can take over a whole town. I just thought the movie was stupid, plain and simple. don't waste your time, effort or money watching this movie. This movie is actually horror if you put the two words together that make the word horrible. It's HORROR BULL.
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