When they experience some car trouble, a young couple is trapped in a remote town where there are no adults, only a murderous cult of religious children who worship a God that lives in the corn fields.
Children of the Corn takes place in small town Gatlin, Nebraska. Everyone over the age of seventeen is sacrificed to “He who Walks Behind the Rows,” who is quite possibly Satan himself. Those children who reach the age of eighteen voluntarily sacrifice themselves to him.
The leader of this satanic cult of children is Isaac (John Franklin) who, along with his lackey Malachai (Courtney Gains), keeps the religious order in the town.
Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) are driving through town when they accidently hit a boy with their car who stumbled out of the corn and into the street. When Burt gets out to check on the boy, he finds that the kid’s throat had been cut before he had run out into the road.
They drive into Gatlin to get the police but, instead, find that there are no adults left at all. Now they are targets of the cult and must fight to get out of Gatlin alive.
Children of the Corn mixes two things that are always terrifying in horror: children and religion. These religious children aren’t singing hymns and making popsicle stick crosses; they are murdering their parents and praising a demon god who, for lack of better judgment, chose to stalk (pun unintended) the corn fields in the middle of nowhere Nebraska.
While the movie is very different than the book, with a happier ending, the film is still a fun fear fest of scary children horror. You might find yourself avoiding corn mazes this season but I would consider that a fair sacrifice and money well saved because corn mazes are lame.
If you find yourself desperate for more, there are eight other movies in the series but I would strongly suggest stopping after the third. In fact, don’t even watch the third. Just enjoy the first two and thank me later.
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Ann Hale is the horror editor for Pop-Break.com and a senior contributing writer, reviewing horror movies and television shows. She is also the American Correspondent for Lovehorror.co.uk. Ann attended East Carolina University, majoring in English Literature. She is a collector of Halloween (the film) memorabilia and is a self-admitted opinionated horror nerd. You can follow her, her collection and her cat, Edward Kittyhands on Twitter and Instagram @Scarletjupiter
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