I like this movie, although the franchise clearly did not sustain the value or high standards of the first film for very long (at all). The background music is dependably creepy, so, that's good. The whole movie is right up there with the intro to Halloween 4, when it comes to making rural America spooky as hell.

I just posted something somewhere in the last few days, wondering about who/what the hell He Who Walks Behind The Rows was supposed to be. The children think it's God, and it's clearly SOMETHING, but not God. Did Stephen King have anything specific in mind? Some kind of pagan demon, or possibly even some local Native American spirit, being misinterpreted by the children?!?!? Corn is native to the Americas, right? No, it can't be that, it would have to be something from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Something twisted, that's for sure.

There was a 2009 version that I thought stayed closer to the spirit of the original story in some ways. Not for the whole movie, but, at times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Corn_(2009_film)


I saw a kid at a subway stop a few years ago, who looked just like Malachi. I wanted to yell OUTLANDERRRRRR!!!! at him. I held back.


In 2016, during the early Republican primaries, I used to post this scene somewhere... probably here, and/or on our old IMDB board, and/or on Facebook. I was trying to be funny, saying that this scene captured the moment when Trump stole any political momentum that Ted Cruz might have managed to build up, and started really consolidating his hold on the GOP. I seriously pissed a lot of people off by doing that, sooooo that was just swell. Anyway, this is the scene.