3/4  Children of the Corn Quick Review
I loved all of the Children of the Corn movies! They're awesome.

3/4  Children of the Corn Quick Review
If you've only seen the highly inferior sequels, you don't know what you're missing. The first, and definitely best out of this series, the original Children will have that chilling effect on you. Watch it with the lights off and sound up.

3.5/4  Children of the Corn Quick Review
The first horror movie I had ever seen, but even today it is eerie as hell. The special effects really suck at the end, but the mood of the movie is creepy enough to make this a great horror.

5/5 Outlander! We have your woman...she still lives!
  by William Dorfer
"Children of the Corn" is one of those movies that leaves a connection with you after you've seen it. I remember when I was 11 or 12 and this movie was on TV, right in the beginning in the coffee house massacre scene. I remember being so frightened I had to switch channels! Being older, I can say that the movie's not as terrifying now, but "Children of the Corn" still has an eerie atmosphere that entices you all the way through.

If you can get past what may seem silly aspects that climax towards then end and enjoy the movie nonetheless, then "Children of the Corn" will definitely be a great watch. It's one of those '80s classics that's still just as entertaining, eerie, mystical and captivating now as it was in its own time. The setting in the abandoned, little Midwestern town is the perfect setting for this sort of movie, so that beefs up the quality of the film right there. In addition, the acting is quite good, and Isaac is one of the most sinister little punks I've ever seen on screen! Malachai too, plays an awesome villain, but whereas Isaac plays the darker, more evil villain, Malachai plays the more nuts-out, kick-a## sort of villain. The two of them work great together and lead the evil flock of children...gahh, it's starting to take its effect on me again!

Although "Children of the Corn" doesn't really have the humorous breaks in it that a lot of other horror movies do, it's certainly a great and enjoyable movie, that's most likely to captivate you with its dark, mysterious atmosphere. Pick this up in time for Halloween, too, to give yourself an extra reason to be scared and to love this time of year! Thanks for the time, and peace.

5/5 If for no other reason ....
  by Emilie Livingston (Orangeburg, SC USA)
There are classic scenes that transcend time. Linda Hamilton's little "throwaway" scene in the first 15 minutes of the movie is one of these classics. Her song and dance routine to "School is Out" is as cute and memorable as they come. Thanks to the film editor who picked it up from the cutting room floor. Even if I don't watch the entire movie for the hundredth-something time (but I usually do), that scene always delights me.

4/5 A little cheesy...
  by Sal Sabatino
It's more eerie than spooky. but other than that it was a good movie and had a good story to it. i'd rent it before i bought it though. The one kid's voice gets on my nerves.

3/5 This movie sure is, pardon the pun, corney!
  by Kolchak the Night Stalker (California)
"Children of the Corn" is a movie I hadn't seen in about twenty years. I remembered the premise and general plot but hadn't watched it in decades. My wife and I decided to buy it just to watch a spook movie. Honestly, it was ok. Most of Stephen King's movies are just so-so compared to the books. While I have read a ton of King's books and am a fan for sure, I had never read this one so I can't speak to whether it was as good as the flick itself. I do know that the casting was fine, the small town creepy atmosphere is palpable, and that kid they cast to play Isaac the little "prophet," John Franklin, CUUUREEPY! That kid is so bizarre-looking, just creepy! And the Malachi character is a weasle, too!

I thought the movie moved along too fast and came to a head too quickly. It became predictable.

And what seemed unrealistic to me is how an entire town of kids could keep the town a secret for three years!! Hello? No Pepsi trucks, gasoline trucks, produce trucks, or other goods ever come into that town? How about the mayor's office and the State of Nebraska? How about property taxes, family members out of town, and commerce? How could an entire town like that disappear and be run by kids? I'm a teacher, trust me, kids could not run a town this smoothly! lol

I like the "he who walks behind the rows" plot and some tense, spooky moments but like many King flicks, just so-so, not the legendary cult classic keeper so many fans make it out to be. It's worth watching, probably once for me...

2/5 Childish and Corny
  by Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
I have a glimpse of a memory from when I was ten or so. It is of this film's climax, giant fields of corn, some sort of malevolent creature burrowing through the ground like a mole on coke, and crosses of corn exploding into the air. I only saw fragments because my parents were watching the film, but at the time, it freaked me out.

This is probably because my father is a Baptist minister, lending all sorts of sobriety to the image of crosses, and also because I grew up in southeast Missouri, around dozens and dozens of cornfields.

I wanted to be scared like that again, so I got the Children of the Corn series. Instead of being scared, however, I have been afforded the opportunity to warn others of my mistake.

In the first five minutes of this film, all the children of the podunk town of Gatlin, Nebraska kill every last citizen over the age of 19. That's the first five minutes, mind you. The entire incident is narrated nonchalantly by young Job (Robby Kiger), who is annoyed that his mother and father have been slain, but who isn't necessarily put out by the ordeal.

Because, you see, Job and his sister Sarah (who, for no reason whatsoever, can draw the future), are kept alive by the band of murderous children, who are acting at the behest of Issac, a legitimately creepy child who is acting as the prophet of He Who Walks Behind the Rows (of corn). Issac is played by John Franklin, a twenty-five year old whose Growth Hormone Disorder makes him seem just the right kind of disturbing for the part. After murdering all of the adults, the town of Gatlin enters a three-year grace period, where, for some reason, absolutely no investigation or inquiry is made into the town's sudden lack of taxpayers. What, the relatives of these murdered adults don't worry that their family doesn't respond to mail or phone calls? How is that this place still gets electricity, gas, and water after all of the breadwinners have been dispatched? Ah, but I'm thinking too much. Ha ha. Silly me.

Anyway, enter Burt (a laconic Peter Horton) and Vicky (a younger, sexier Linda Hamilton), two thirty-somethings entering the picture purely by accident when they happen to collide with Issac's latest victim, a young defector whose name I don't care to look up.

King has always taken issue with fundamentalism, and his work reflects that. I can't testify to how true this film is to the short story that inspired it, but that fanatical religious fervor is present here in undiluted form. Who knows what these kids are worshipping? Not even them it seems. Whatever it is, it enjoys bloodshed and corn, and it hates adults (if you define adult as 20+ years of age).

Aside from the story's basic incomprehensibility, the movie is uneventful and horribly acted. It's a rough deal when the bulk of your cast is children, especially when said children are directed to act menacing. The most violent child of all, Malachai (Courtney Gains), tries to leer and sneer with the best of them, but mostly what I noticed was his abnormally large mouth. He screams a bit, Issac screams a bit, Burt takes it all in stride, and a kid named Amos gets a pentagram carved into his chest

It's all rather mundane and dull. In fact, I think the movie glossed over the scariest part. What I would've liked to have seen is the preface to all of this weirdness. Instead of making a movie about the aftermath, they should've written a story about Issac discovering He Who Walks Behind the Rows, about him convincing an entire town of children to murder their parents. That's what I thought the movie was about, actually (instead of it being the first five minutes). And the sequels that followed? Well, I assumed they would be about people coming to investigate why no one in Gatlin returns phone calls or has paid their credit card bills. Now, I don't know what to expect.

Probably more corn.