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Cryptorchild
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Posted: March 9, 2007 at 11:16am
I agree with Crispy. Loved the story but wasn't too fond of the movie. It wasn't that the movie was awful, its just....I dunno, it could have been WAY better. I would give it like a 6.5/10.
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Rik
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Posted: January 9, 2008 at 10:56am
Children Of The Corn was amazingly bad. I never want to watch it ever again.
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Optimus Prime
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Posted: January 22, 2009 at 12:56pm
I don't really agree with 0/10 cause it wasn't hard to sit through this movie. It just wasn't good. 3/10
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Shakes
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Posted: January 22, 2009 at 1:07pm
1.5/10... maybe... ok, nuff said. OUCH!
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Ginose
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Posted: December 16, 2009 at 10:46am
Wait... what?
Fuck you, "Lawnmower Man" was fucking awesome!!
This, however... yeah... 0.4/10 for the dozens of parodies it spawned which were much better than this sorry piece of shit.
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Crispy
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Posted: February 8, 2012 at 4:04pm
Some places are just synonymous with creepy mayhem, and cornfields are definitely ranked in the top three. The Children of the Corn franchise is the sole reason why.
Things have gone very wrong in the small, rural town of Gatlin. On a seemingly ordinary Sunday morning, all the children have gathered for a meeting in the cornfield, where a demonic entity living in the cornfield makes its presence known. Shortly after, these children slaughter the adults and begin running the town as a theocracy, led by Isaac and his enforcer, Malachai, in the name of He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Still, not all of them are happy with the status quo, and one of them tries to escape. Unfortunately, he's met in the field by Malachai, who slashes his throat and pushes him into the street, where he's run down by Burt and Vicky, a couple driving to Seattle to begin Burt's new career. Looking for help, the pair follow the signs to Gatlin, right into the waiting arms of the killer kiddy cult.
You know, I watched this movie years ago, and hated it. I decided to fire it up again, and twenty minutes in, I realized I was actually enjoying it. The initial massacre was an awesome scene, and the chemistry between Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton was quite good; I fully bought them as a couple. Even when they got to the town, things slowed down sure, but not enough to ruin things. But then we come to the climax. We could have had Citizen Kane up to this point, and the nonsense in the final twenty-five minutes would have tore it down just as succinctly. You see, the majority of the movie ran on fear of the unknown, that unsettling feeling that something is definitely wrong. Then they threw all that out the window, and we're treated to an eye-rolling, one-on-one confrontation between the Hortons and He Who Walks Between the Rows, aka, a giant plume of smoke in negative film and superimposed with a jack-in-the-lantern face. Terrible.
Again, Horton and Hamilton were both very good as our hapless couple, and since the majority of the running time was focused on them, there was little to complain about. That is until the end. Are you noticing a theme here? You see, that's when the children themselves make their presence on screen, and we all know how children in horror movies usually go. Robby Kiger and Anne Marie McEvoy were definitely annoying as the two "good" kids. They were young though. Really young. Courtney Gains had no such excuse. Malachai was supposed to be the feared enforcer of these kids, but you'd have to be a kid to find him threatening. There actually is a silver lining however, and that is John Franklin. Franklin just has a great look for Isaac, and his croaking voice is perfect. While his acting certainly needed to be toned, he was pretty decent for his age. Shame his career never amounted to more than this role and Cousin Itt from the Addams Family.
To its detriment, the script departs radically from its source material. Some things didn't make much difference, like Vicky and Burt initially being on the verge of divorce, but others would have been better served without the exclusion. Job, Sarah and the pissing contest between Isaac and Malachai were all thrown in there for the sole purpose of padding out the running time. He Who Walks Behind the Rows and his relationship with the kids were also handled infinitely better on paper than on screen. The Syfy Channel remade it in 2009, and apparently it stays truer to King's version. We'll have to see how that one fared. Hopefully, at the very least, it retains how dark and noir the book was.
Despite its lack of anything worthwhile, Children of the Corn has carved itself a definite niche in the horror world. It's a shitty movie with a huge legacy. Figure that one out. 2/10.
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Bill Wolford
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Posted: February 9, 2012 at 12:45am
OUTLANDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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