Children of the Corn
by Fritz Kiersch
from Starz / Anchor Bay
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 mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. --Paul Gaita
Children of the Corn 3 - Urban Harvest
by James D.R. Hickox
from Dimension
An edge-of-your-seat thriller packed with suspense and terror -- you can't miss CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST -- third in the wildly popular CHILDREN OF THE CORN series! Soon after a childless couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem! With the immense power to hypnotize schoolmates into mindless followers and destroy any adult opposition, the younger boy continues the frightening campaign of terror that began in CHILDREN OF THE CORN! But there is one person -- his brave older brother -- who can possibly stop the relentless destruction, setting up an awesome final showdown between the powers of good and evil!
Children of the Corn 5 - Fields of Terror
by Ethan Wiley
from Dimension
Prepare for edge-of-your-seat thrills with the latest and most chilling chapter in the popular series based on CHILDREN OF THE CORN by master of horror, Stephen King! Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town ... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces! Yet even as bodies begin cropping up all around them, the young friends decide to stay and rescue the children ... or die trying! Don't miss CHILDREN OF THE CORN V: FIELDS OF TERROR -- the shockingly entertaining sequel that delivers nonstop, big-scream fun!
Children of the Corn 4 - The Gathering
by Greg Spence
from Dimension
Nothing can prepare you for the onslaught of spine-tingling thrills unleashed in CHILDREN OF THE CORN IV: THE GATHERING -- the latest and most chilling chapter in the wildly popular CHILDREN OF THE CORN series! The horror returns when the children of a small midwestern town are haunted by an unspeakable evil that lurks somewhere out behind the corn fields. A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children ... before a sinister stranger can claim their souls for his own! It's a pulse-pounding race against time and terror that will leave even the most die-hard suspense fans on the edge of their seats!
Children of the Corn - Revelation
by Guy Magar
from Dimension
Based on the chilling story CHILDREN OF THE CORN by Stephen King, REVELATION is the next shocking chapter in this ever-popular series of suspense thrillers! When calls to her eccentric grandmother go unanswered, Jamie Lowell is shocked to discover that her grandmother's last known address is a condemned tenement building overrun by uncontrolled children! But as Jamie slowly uncovers the truth behind her grandmother's mysterious disappearance, she merely disturbs a powerful evil that now seeks to destroy Jamie as well!
Children of the Corn (Divimax Edition)
by Fritz Kiersch
from Starz / Anchor Bay
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 mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. --Paul Gaita
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
by Kari Skogland
from Dimension
With riveting performances from stars John Franklin (CHILDREN OF THE CORN, ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES), Stacy Keach (AMERICAN HISTORY X), and Alix Koromzay (CARRIE II, THE HAUNTING, NIGHTWATCH), ISAAC'S RETURN is the sixth and newest bone-chilling chapter in the thrilling CHILDREN OF THE CORN series! On a trip to find her birth mother, Hannah Martin picks up a dark stranger who kicks off a mysterious chain of events. Little does Hannah know that her journey may help fulfill a sinister prophecy made 19 years earlier by Isaac, the cult's original evil leader! It's a hair-raising movie event you don't want to miss as Isaac makes his terrifying return and the frightening Children Of The Corn achieve their ultimate destiny!
Children of the Corn II
From the producer of Hellraiser III - Region Free
Children of the Corn [Region 2]
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 mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. --Paul Gaita
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