Overrated

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Admirable film.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

2/4Even though it doesn't live up to its marketing as a scary movie, it still has it moments of suspense, and was also quite entertaining. The light-hearted treatment of quite disturbing material proved to actually be quite engaging, and the fact that not ALL of its characters took their fanaticism seriously proved to help sedate the movie. If all of the Gatlinian children were more than just blind followers of their leader, Children Of The Corn would probably go from it's current state to overbearing.The fact that the plot can suspend itself with barely any character development is (in its own unique way) pretty remarkable. It's just two parties colliding in one of the most screwed up situations. An aspiring doctor and his tag-a-long girlfriend are driving through Nebraska trying to make it to Seattle when they run over a dead body in he street. When they enter the town of Gatlin to report the corpse, they run into two orphans. There, they learn that the town is run by a child "zealot" and his accomplices, who have killed off all of the town's resident adults (smart people). Minimal character development packs the biggest punch here, as the tactic is to try and not get the audience too attached to the characters. After all, this is a horror film, right?Well, I've just set you up for my biggest problem with Children Of The Corn.... it misses so many opportunities. The lack of depth in the characters makes them vulnerable to a sick or sadistic plot twist. The characters in Children Of The Corn should have been let fall prey to even greater evils. This movie takes no chances, and in result has only half of the scares you'd want it to.The movie grabbed your attention, and excersized it HARD. It doesn't give many places for breathers, but at the same time, it's an easy run. In other words, this movie won't scare you into a heart-attack, but it has a sufficient amount of suspense. It'll do it's job, you'll have your fun, and it'll stay it's welcome.

A nice little gritty horror movie from the eighties. It relies on the suspense built up from effectively menacing kids of the cult. There are some laughable bits like the corn parting to make a path and the occult effects at the end but I forgive these as they were just trying to make the film more supernatural. The only thing I didn't like was the religious and moral overtones. I got the impression that this was a Christian film warning of the dangers of other religions. That aside this is an enjoyable and occasionally scary horror film with two really evil characters.

I first watched this movie in its entirety as an adult, but did remember watching parts of it as a kid. It was a pretty intriguing movie about a demonic cult formed of children whose goal is to kill people over 18, and plans on sacrificing a couple who stumbled onto their town, Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton), to the devil.The plot was fairly fast-paced from start to finish, from the attention-grabbing introduction to the thrilling climax; the concept of a cult with children, them chanting fearlessly and leaving a murderous path in the town, was pretty creepy. The music score was fairly haunting and the acting was quite mediocre - some you might actually find corny and emotionless. But overall, it's a decent horror flick.Grade B

Looking back, I really haven't seen that many Stephen King movies. I'm not going to go through all the work of seeing the miniseries, just his regular feature length movies. The main problem with this film is that it's needlessly padded. There are so many scenes that drag on that just show the characters looking at corn. We never even really get a good idea of what the monster is. Is it actually a manifestation of the corn? This has some of the goofiest scenes I've ever witnessed in a horror movie. We see the monster being represented by a bunch of roots tunneling through the ground. At the end, the monster appears in some weird cartoonish thing.This movie was based on a short story and you can tell. I guess it's hard for me to really hate it, seeing as how it did entertain me with how ridiculous it was. If nothing else, I'll give it credit for starting off a series and it does genuinely seem better than the sequels. This film series actually set a record for most bad entries in any franchise! Seriously, I think there's at least ten bits of material centered on this, probably the most of any Stephen King adaptation. Maybe I'll have to read the story. Isaac is the most entertaining as the zaniest, as pointed out by the Nostalgia Critic. If there's anything legitimately good, it's that the main guy does show some courage at the end. If you have to see this, ignore the sequels. **