Children of the Corn (1984)

Children of the Corn (1984)

5 word summary

Murderous children take over town

When I started the film I was interested. Children that kill people are great tools for horror movies in my opinion. Exorcist, The Omen, Pet Sematary, etc. Children of the Corn started off seemingly the same. The kids kill all of the adults and live in the cornfield and so on. A couple show up and try to save the kids that are “non believers.” For a little bit, after maybe 15-20 minutes it gets a little slow but I live through it. Then it gets alittle more interesting with the whole religion thing. Showing how all the kids are just crazy religious folks who do what their leader says, showing how dangerous religion is… and then it happens…

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The movie goes from this good slasher/horror like film about killer kids and then it just throws all that good stuff out the window with some weird supernatural **** that in my opinion ruined the movie. Weird static ball things that crawl through the ground and explode the cross and whatnot… then kills the leader but brings him back all zombie looking. I don’t know it just seemed like the writer just gave up and needed something to finish the story quick and threw in something dumb and crazy.

It turned it from a unlikely but possible scary story to something dumb and supernatural. It would have worked with it being supernatural the whole time or not at all, don’t just add it at the end, it seems lazy.

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in the end i guess it is a new horror classic and probably has been quite influential to the genre, i just have a problem with how they ended it, which ruined the earlier parts i did like.

I wouldn’t really recommend this film to anyone unless you really enjoy horror films or have heard of it and you’re curious. Or I guess if you really like Stephen King’s horror books or movies, I just feel it wasn’t his best. I wouldn’t go out of my way to see it.

5/10