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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305972594
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305972591
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 2696
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1984
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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 Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called 'He Who Walks Behind the Rows.' King's original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody 'service') delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's only consider a Classic because it's one of Stephen Kings earlier works.....
I had a feeling I wasn't going to like this but I manage to get through it. Nearly everything that Stephen King has ever written seems to have been turned into a film or TV series; in fact, I'm surprised that no one has tried to make a mini-series from the guy's grocery list. Let's face it, if they did, it couldn't be any less interesting than 'Children of the Corn.'
Based on one of King's many short stories, this 1984 horror flick sees Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton playing a couple ... Read More
Rating:  - Still Creepy After 24 Years
I'm 16 years old and I love Children of the Corn, it's creepy without being gory. The dvd quality is great and the special features are fun. It was really interesting seeing John Franklin and Courtney Gains in the documentary for the 20th anniversary... they both look just as they were and it's cool hearing about their experiences on set, which is continued in the commentary. Great dvd, it's a great deal for those who love this movie.
Rating:  - Children Have Never Been Scarier...
When I first started Children of the Corn today, I had a feeling that it was going to be one of those scary horror movies that are very funny. I was certainly correct! Children Of The Corn is actually one of the scariest horror movies I've ever seen, however it is also one of the funniest horror movies I've ever seen!
The children are so unbelievably terrifying in this movie. Nothing is scarier than a child with an axe. The acting is mediocre, yes, but it is very good at the exact same ... Read More
Rating: - [3.5] "It's a little weird out here..."
"...but it's safe." is how the rest of the line goes. But when the film begins with the slaughtering of adults in a small Nebraska town by all the children, it's far from that. Children of the Corn is a unique horror film in that it blends children and cornfields, but other than that, this is a pretty lame and average scarefest.
Gatlin is the small Nebraska town where the action takes place. Gatlin is now a ghost town, because the adults are "in the cornfields". In other words, sacrificed ... Read More
Rating: - OUTLANDER!!!!!!
There was originaly going to be a scene where kids kill people at a police station. But that was changed to a coffee shoppe. This was dull, the divimax DVD has less screening and is a gory movie, VHS is better, and i think it was awesome when they killed that dog! I will do reviews on all seven CotC movies and the VHS and DVD for CotC 2 Final Sacrifice. So i'll have 8 CotC reviews. This was kind of stpid and very retarded and i don't get how this Isaac got possessed in the first place..... But after the gas ... Read More
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