1984
Fritz Kiersch
Fritz Kiersch
The small town of Gatlin, Nebraska is swiftly taken over by
child cultists under the direction of a boy named Isaac (John Franklin). They
murder all the adults in the name of “He Who Walks Behind the Rows.” Sometime
later a couple, Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) are driving
through rural Nebraska when they hit and kill a kid running across the road.
They search for a phone which leads them straight into Gatlin and a town full
of children ready to sacrifice them.
‘Children of the Corn’ is in no way a good movie. The
opening massacre with the kids doing in all the adults is a strong start, but
things fizzle out fast. There is a rising tension and dread but it’s all
squandered on way too much wandering around the empty town of Gatlin. It’s interesting
that ‘Children of the Corn’ is such an iconic idea, but no single thing in the film
is memorable at all. Isaac is suitably unnerving and somehow annoying at the
same time. When He Who Walks Behind the Rows finally makes his appearance (although
you never get enough of a glimpse to understand what it is) it is a big letdown.
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