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‘Children of the Corn’ review: A Stephen King adaptation without the scares
In a Deadline interview from a while back, when asked about his least favourite movie adaptations of his work, Stephen King said, “I could do without all the Children of the Corn sequels.” It’s difficult to imagine the horror author changing his mind if he ever gets round to watching this new instalment.
Writer/director Kurt Wimmer’s adaptation of King’s 1977 short story marks the eleventh (yes! eleventh!) film in the series, reimagining the original story while keeping the familiar tentpole of murdery children who form a strange cult around a small town corn field in Nebraska.
The problem? This bunch of murdery children aren’t creepy enough, their town takeover doesn’t really make sense, and the whole thing lacks the shock factor that made Fritz Kiersch’s original 1984 adaptation a success.
Children of the Corn just isn’t scary enough.
There are no shortage of creepy children in horror movies — or in King’s work for that matter. One of the reasons the trope is constantly used is because it can be so effective and unsettling to see violence and threat in the hands of young people, ranging from gory classics like The Exorcist to more recent (and very scary) examples like Z and The Innocents.
Children of the Corn won’t be joining them anytime soon. Despite the film’s main antagonists being children, their all-important creepiness is sorely lacking, with the movie leaning too hard into a gory slasher vibe and sacrificing any tension in doing so. To be clear, the fault isn’t with the acting — the child actors all do a solid job, with Kate Moyer being particularly effective as their tiny, psychopathic leader Eden Edwards. The problem is, the script doesn’t give the kids enough to work with. The dialogue isn’t unsettling enough, there are barely any jumps, and we pretty much know exactly what’s going on and where things are headed from the outset.
Oh, and the monster that all the kids worship looks like an Ent made of corn. Sorry.
The film has a few plot holes.
In the original 1984 movie, the opening scene showed a cafe full of clueless adults being suddenly and brutally murdered by a group of well-armed kids and teenagers. The scene was effective because it was shocking but also semi-believable, as the kids a) take the adults by surprise, b) come armed with sickles and meat cleavers, and c) include some older kids among their ranks who can manhandle the grown ups to the floor. Is it a bit farfetched? Yes. But it felt like it could have happened.
Wimmer’s Children of the Corn, meanwhile, quickly takes a scythe to any semblance of believability, with the children terrorising the adults in a way that’s so unrealistic it quickly becomes noticeable. How do these kids manage to round the grown ups all up and put them in a jail cell, for instance? Why don’t the adults try to escape when the cell door is opened? How do the children even go about moving the adults around once they’ve captured them?
Yes, OK, the children are armed, but seeing 10 grown men cowering under the gaze of a tiny child still feels kind of silly.
Are there any good points?
In the film’s defence, it’s clearly not taking itself too seriously. Children of the Corn relishes in gore and hammy special effects, and if you go into it looking for a bit of light entertainment you could probably do worse. The acting is decent enough, too, Wimmer’s direction is solid, and Andrew Rowland’s cinematography includes some undeniably beautiful sweeping shots of seemingly endless corn fields — the kind that are so expansive you could really imagine people getting lost in them.
If you do want a film about people lost in a field, though, you’d be better off watching Netflix’s Stephen King and Joe Hill short story adaptation, In the Tall Grass.
Or, better yet, just watch the original Children of the Corn.
Children of the Corn is in theatres from March 3 and available on demand from March 23.
Children Of The Corn Review – More Reimagining Than Remake
I will admit: I didn’t have high hopes for the newest Children of the Corn film, an apparent remake of the 1984 classic horror film. Based on the Stephen King short story of the same name, the new film is directed by Kurt Wimmer (2015’s Point Break). Despite the fact that it premiered at a Florida film festival in 2020, it wasn’t picked up for release until 2023. But the new take on Children of the Corn turned out to be a surprisingly satisfying slasher.
The film opens in a Rylstone, Nebraska, orphanage. Eden, a young charge, greets another kid who wanders out of a cornfield. He picks up a big knife off a table, goes inside, and starts killing the adults. When even the authorities can’t stop him, they come in with a cow tranquilizer and gas everyone inside. Eden is the only survivor of the slaughter, having wandered into the corn, where she spent nearly a week before the authorities found her. She’s then “adopted” by the town pastor.
Sometime later, the surviving adults meet to discuss an offer from “big corn” to grow GMO corn, loaded with pesticides and other chemicals that ruin their crops. From there, the town has no choice but to take part in a subsidy to not grow corn. When the kids’ opinions on the matter are rejected, some of the older teens plan a public shaming, invite a journalist to town, and plan on holding a sham “trial.” The journalist doesn’t arrive, and when the older teens arrive, Eden has already killed some of the adults. The rest are imprisoned, only to be gassed like earlier, and transferred to a pit in the cornfields, where they are buried alive. Things only get wilder from there.
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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s second free title update lets you wield a giant corn on the cob
Beastie-battling action RPG Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is getting a second free update on September 29th. While there’s some new monsters to square off against, I feel the most critically important part of the update is the layered weapons system. This gives you the option to unsheathe some truly bizarre weaponry, including something that appears to be a comically huge ear of sweet corn. Witness for yourself by watching the trailer below.