Children of the Corn (1984)
- Starring:
- Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, (more)
- Director(s):
- Fritz Kiersch
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Children of the Corn
Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to escape through the cornfields of Gatlin. Meanwhile, Burt Stanton (Peter Horton), a commitment-phobic young doctor, and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton), his frustrated girlfriend, travel through the cornfield-lined roads of Nebraska on their way to Burt's new internship in Omaha. Their car hits Joseph, who appears out of nowhere, but upon examining him, Burt realizes the child's throat was slit before he ever wandered out from the corn. Attempting to locate help, Burt and Vicky turn to gas-station owner Diehl (R.G. Armstrong), who urges the couple to go anywhere but nearby Gatlin to report the murder. Several contradictory street signs later, they arrive in Gatlin anyway, and, befriending Sarah and Joseph, attempt to uncover the mystery behind Isaac's cult and its mysterious deity, known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Stephen King cash-ins flooded the market between the successes of Brian DePalma's Carrie (1976) and Rob Reiner's Misery (1990), many of them, like Children of the Corn, based only loosely on the author's fiction. The original short story appeared in the collection Night Shift. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 92 mins
Complete Cast of Children of the Corn
- Peter Horton - Dr. Burt Stanton
- R.G. Armstrong - Diehl
- Courtney Gains - Malachi
- Annemarie McEvoy - Sarah
- Jonas Marlowe - Joseph
- Mitch Carter - Radio Preacher
- Teresa Toigo - Hansen's Customer
- Patrick Boylan - Hansen's Customer
- Dan Snook - Boy
- Eric Freeman - Israel
- Linda Hamilton - Vicky Baxter
- John Franklin - Isaac
- Robby Kiger - Job
- Julie Maddalena - Rachel
- John Philbin - Amos
- D.G. Johnson - Mr. Hansen
- Elmer Soderstrom - Hansen's Customer
- David Cowan - Dad
- Suzy Southam - Mom
- Director(s):
- Fritz Kiersch
- Writer(s):
- Stephen King, George Goldsmith
- Producer(s):
- Terence Kirby, Mark Lipson, Charles Weber
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Language, Graphic Violence, Profanity, Violence, Not For Children)
- Categories:
- Horror
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