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The murder rate is as high as an elephant's eye in this flaccid adaptation of Stephen King's short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife ...( read more 
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MCT:August 27, 2008no se si sera buena en realidad, pero me acuerdo que la vi cuando estaba pequeña y si me dejo medio asustada
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MCT:August 13, 2008Once again, creepy kids freak me out! Book was better but this movie was another step in my early love of horror.
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MCT:July 27, 2008
Its a great movie on its own, creepy kids take over a small town and sacrifice themselves to some god before they become adults. too bad for that silly couple that bumbles into town, want kids? might want to rethink that lol.
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MCT:July 24, 2008I thought it was good, but if it was I woulda wanted to watch it again in the last 10 years at least once.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
I think this is one better left to memory. The beginning is fantastic, but the meltdown at the end (crucifixes that shoot sparkles and fly away?) is a tad disappointing now.
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Issac was so creepy in this version. I do like Linda Hamilton. I did like the book version better this one has a happy ending. Well This one is a good watch. The kids were cool. If you get a chance check out the original story in Night Shift or Skeleton Crew. Does anyone know if there was an earlier version of children of the corn? Were could I find it?
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MCT:June 22, 2008Havent seen it but have heard it being talked about, it couldnt be more of a waste of time than French 'horror', "Them"
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MCT:June 21, 2008
I can't say that I was terribly impressed with this. It seems to be a case of the reputation over-exaggerating how sinister it is. It's not a bad film, just that the ideas it presents are probably less unnerving to a modern audience. It's very rare that Stephen King and I agree about his work, but I am slightly inclined to see his point about this film.
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MCT:June 14, 2008Laughable movie, with horrible plot and totally nonsense dialogues. One of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen,just finished because it's funny due to the bad effects and bad performances.
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MCT:May 12, 2008Damn, this hasn't aged well at all. Guess I should have watched this all those years ago when I was a little kid, because I don't see how an adult can find this "horrific" in the least. I got the feeling it was "aimed" at kids who just don't like adults, as for me I thought the kids were pathetic and annoying and the adults weren't that much better. There were cooler slasher-horror films released especially in the 80's so this one can easily be missed.
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MCT:April 9, 2008
Honestly,this movie wasnt that wonderful.The main thing that I liked about it was that it was an extremely original idea.The only thing you had at this time involving actual children and horror genre was Halloween and it mainly consisted of teenagers,there was only 3 small children in it and that would be Micheal as a child in the beginning and the two children that Lorie Strode was babysitting,so this was an unheard of concept,for an entire cast of a horror movie to be made up of children (with the exception of Linda Hamilton and whoever the other two guys were).Not many people know of this movie or have seen it,but it was truly a breakthrough in movie production and scripting,which may have been it's downfall also.I dont think many people back then wanted to see a bunch of kids killing people.
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MCT:March 10, 2008
enjoyable movie.lttle ways from great.i remember there was a kid who lived on my street that resembled courtney gains alot.
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MCT:March 3, 2008
What a mess. Why I gave it a whole star instead of a half, I'm not sure. It just felt right, even though there wasn't a single positive thing about this turd of a movie. This is crap, even according to 80s straight-to-video horror standards. A bit fun to see Linda Hamilton in something not terminator related though. Not the bit scary, and not particularly graphic either. Acting and FX could make your stomach twitch in agony. There's a lot better 80s horror movies, so I wouldn't waste my time with this one. Why this movie spawned 6 sequels is beyond me.
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MCT:February 29, 2008
An extremely creepy Stephen King adaptation really offers anything great. As a kid I found this terribly scary, and it still is very creepy. But in reality it's a pretty poor movie.
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MCT:February 24, 2008
This is a primary example of a movie failing to do justice to Stephen King's original work. The best acting comes from the kids, especially the leads of Isaac and Malachai, but there are simply no scary scenes and the only "jump" I had is when the leader kid Isaac comes back as undead. The kids lose whatever scare potential they had when the main male protagonist just starts shoving through them like ragdolls, and the one kid, Malachai, who could potentially be a threat on his own is easily thwarted , and it seems that the most of the kids are not bloodlusty but just follow Malachai who supervises the other kids in a Machiavellian way. This young actor shows promise and adds much to the beginning, but by the end, we have seen too many shots of him with the same murderous face. While it is effective once or twice before a killing, it does not work when it is every other time we see Malakai. I also can't imagine the Isaac character being ineffective on any audience member; the role is rendered in a supremely creepy way more akin to the tone of the short story. If you don't want to be bothered with a whole boring flick, I'd just check out his scenes and you'll feel much more affected than viewing the feature.There's a great concept and a damn great setting here, but the script condescends the audience too much and the scene pacing is clumsy at best after the first reel. The classical American Gothic feel is apparent in the production design but the script and editing render this quality non-existent.
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MCT:February 6, 2008I can't believe I saw all of the crappy sequels before I ever sat through the original. I really don't understand how this so-so film spawned so many. I think part 6 was the last one I tortured myself with. I've never read the short story by Stephen King, but the film really does have a creepy premise. Too bad the acting is a joke, the direction is flat, and the last half hour will put you to sleep. It started off pretty good and did have a few good creepy/jumpy moments, but the longer it went on the worse it got. I don't get it......corn is not scary! Still, it is one of the better Children of the Corn movies I can remember.........not that that's saying much.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
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MCT:January 13, 2008
This movie is one of the few that creeps me out. You should have seen my reaction to having to stop in a small town like that one. All you heard was the wind and LITERALLY no one was out side. I didn't sleep for a week.
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MCT:December 29, 2007
Dificilmente una buena pelicula o una buena adaptacion, pero es mejor que las demas por ser la primera.
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MCT:December 22, 2007
Wow, that was an AWESOME movie.
I was freaking scared.
Isaac was scary, and did any one else think he looked like Gump from Legend?
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MCT:December 21, 2007
It was ok, but it also made me genuinely hate the kids in that movie. And I love kids! This was not the best King movie by a VERY LONG SHOT! Although it might have started a trend in horror movies by the sheer isolation of its theme. But that's all I have for that. Snore!
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MissHorrorChillerGurlFromHellposted 88 days ago -
lol yeah deffinatly a beastly midget lol!!
this movie rox but all stephen king movies rockposted 459 days ago -
Children of the Corn! It was a funny yet sick and twisted movie! I loved it and Issac is a beastly midget!!!!
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