Simply A Masterpiece

Great Film overall

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

I love the genre and am a Stephen King fan however my cat has coughed up more impressive things than this movie.Listening to the children was akin to listening to a recitation of the times tables, providing the dialogue could actually be understood.Some of the special effects were OK and I enjoyed the corn. Actually I think the corn featured as a high point in many of the scenes. The worst part was that I was convinced if I watch it long enough it will be worthwhile. It was not. I was wrong. Don't waste your time.

The children of the corn was a very well good comeback. The children's cast did a great job. The children of the corn series is a phenomenal horror series and many audiences such as myself has been watching it for a very long time including the "Children of the Corn" (1984) classic. This remake brought the entire series back to life. Rating and Reviewing many horror films, family films, etc. "The Children of The Corn Series is by far my number one favorite horror series for all time." I recommend this remake including the classics to those who love children of the corn and the entire series. Like, I stated this remake has brought it back to life and it would be great to see more made beyond measure.------------- Overall, amazing performance by Preston Bailey and the entire children's cast. Great directing by Donald P. Borchers. Stephen King, a big thank you as well. Many audiences may not had like this remake but above all this was a good remake to keep the series flowing at it best. God bless Children of The Corn.

I was dozing when this came on and Kandyse McClure's screaming and nagging got me off the couch and moving around like I should have been. I swear I wanted to punch her in the face until my arms got too tired to lift. It's hard to see how her 'psycho' war vet boyfriend didn't snap and tear her head off her body. He's all cool and calm and she's gone full shrieking harpy for what must have been 10 or 12 minutes until he slapped her once which shut her up for maybe 45 seconds.This is the kind of movie that makes you wish an asteroid came down in the cornfield and wipes out most of the state and everyone in it. Who knows maybe in the 5th remake it will and aliens will pop out and join forces with the Amish Devil-Children or whatever they are. Nothing that anyone does makes the least sense. Ever. Whatever a rational self-preserving non retarded person would do, these characters do the opposite. So you're sort of rooting for the Devil-Farmers pretty soon. You're hoping there's a treasure trove of rusty farm tools with which they can use to slaughter the cast.

Children of the Corn is set in 1975 & starts as Vietnam vet Burt Stanton (David Anders) & his wife Vicky (Kandyse McClure) drive across Nebraska, Burt decides to leave the highway & take the scenic route which leads to an argument between himself & Vicky. While not paying attention to the road Burt runs a young boy down, when Burt looks at the boy's body he notice's that his throat had been cut & it was only a matter of time before he had died anyway. The couple decide to drive to a town called Gatlin, the nearest town for miles in any direction. Once there Burt & Vicky find it completely abandoned & like it has been deserted since the early 60's, then while looking around Vicky is kidnapped by a group of children who have killed all the adults & sacrifice anyone older than nineteen to their God who they worship who they call He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Burt discovers this & attempts to find & save Vicky as well as himself from the children who insist on a blood sacrifice to He Who Walks Behind the Rows...Written, produced & directed by Donald P. Borchers this made for television remake of a short story by Stephen King has been panned by pretty much everyone but I have to say I quite liked it, sure it's no masterpiece but I found it watchable enough. Originally a short story written by Stephen King in 1977 that featured in his anthology Night Shift (which is a fine read by the way) Children of the Corn was first adapted to the silver screen in 1984 in a version that many seem to dislike although I am again of the opposite opinion & really like it before numerous sequels came out starting with Children of the Corn II: The Final Scarifice (1992) & Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) being the latest installment while this was made somewhere between them. The original short story by King was only fifteen pages long & this sticks to it closely, in fact it's far more faithful than the 1984 version. I liked the first hour a lot, the build-up & when everything is still a mystery but once the children feature more regularly & the script tries to flesh them out & give them reasons for what they do it falls apart a little. None of it is particularly convincing & it's hard to believe that children could kill every adult in town & no-one ever finds out. What about supplies? The electric company? Friends & relatives of the adult's? At just under 90 minutes it moves along at a good pace & has some nice moments although the constant bickering between Burt & Vicky gets annoying, the constant arguments & insults make both character's quite unlikable & while you can tolerate them for fifteen pages of a story it's more difficult to sit through over an hour of them sniping at each other & moaning. The script stays focused on the story & doesn't get sidetracked with subplots & the story builds quite nicely before we get an ending that is more downbeat & faithful to the short story even though it's not an audience pleaser.The film takes place entirely in the small town & the outer corn fields of the 70's, the period explains the lack of technology & mobile phone's I suppose. There's some gore in it, a Pig is cut open, there's a slit throat throat, some blood splatter, a few dead bodies & someone gets a compound fracture of his arm. The children themselves are all dressed in black and white clothes like Amish, the one little kid Isacc has this huge hat on which looks a bit daft & some of the kid's are just too cute looking & not menacing enough. There's a little bit of sex & nudity as well but nothing too explicit.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 this looks a lot better than the usual SyFy Channel film & I suspect they didn't make it & only brought the rights to show it after it was finished, filmed in Iowa. The acting is alright, the two leads do what's asked of them even if their character's are unlikable.Children of the Corn is a good story & I have to say that I like both the original 1984 adaptation & this 2009 version although I prefer the former, this isn't that bad at all actually & thought it was perfectly watchable & even quite effective at times although maybe it doesn't satisfy completely.