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Children of the Corn (1984)
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The murder rate is as high as an elephant's eye in this flaccid adaptation of Stephen King's short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." King's original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal...
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| Children of the Corn Movie Review by Chris (10/26/2008) |
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'Children of the Corn' is based off a short story written by Stephen King, which was released in a magazine in 1977. I never read the short story though and the film is extremely weird, which helped me in believing it was based off a Stephen King story. I have read his other novels such as Pet Semetary and Carrie, but...
(complete Children of the Corn review by Chris)
| Children of the Corn Movie Review by Emmett (3/27/2008) |
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Stephen King hates it, the critics hate it, Linda Hamilton hates it.....but I love it!!
In the town of Gathlin, a group of kids (led by a boy preacher), slaughter all the adults one Sunday morning. All the kids have being taken into a vicious cult lead by the aforementioned preacher boy, and have been told that adults are...
(complete Children of the Corn review by Emmett)
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