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Children of the Corn (1984)

Movie"In their world adults are not allowed... to live."
Audience Score
57
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R 1 hr 32 minMar 9th, 1984Thriller, HorrorChildren of the Corn Collection PosterPart of Children of the Corn Collection
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
StarringPeter HortonLinda HamiltonR.G. Armstrong
DirectorFritz Kiersch

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:March 9th, 1984
On DVD & Blu-ray:April 10th, 2001 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$800,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$14,568,989 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Earl A. Glick, Charles Weber
Production Companies:Planet Productions, Angeles Entertainment Group, Cinema Group, Hal Roach Studios, Gatlin, Inverness Productions
Movie Tags:
small townbased on short storysacrificefolk horrorreligious culthuman sacrificepreacherpaganismchildren gangkiller child

Children of the Corn Collection

Adapted from a popular Stephen King short story, the Children of the Corn film series began with a 1984 adaptation by New World Pictures. Set in the fictitious rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film tells the story of a malevolent entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" which entices the town's children to ritually murder all the town's adults. After the release of its 1992 sequel and the series' acquisition by Dimension Films, the subsequent installments were released directly to video, and bore little to no narrative continuity, beginning with Children of the Corn III, and ending with 2018's Runaway.