GL84 On a road trip through rural Nebraska, a divorcing couple find an abandoned town to be the home of a cult of children worshiping a bizarre figure that lives in their cornfields and must find a way of stopping the kids from turning them into their next sacrifice.This is a pretty troubling if somewhat watchable effort. One of the better things this gets right is the rather creepy amount of stalking and chasing around the town which helps this one along. The opening attack with the slit-throat recreation of the original as it leads into the encounter with the kids in front of the church is one of the better scenes as the scenes of them being along and feeling watched also gives this one some rather appealing suspenseful nods here and there. There's several other rather intriguing action scenes from the numerous times of the group of kids chasing after the two through town which is a lot of fun by getting some rather fun chasing here that's all the more fun by feature a large amount of suspense and action together. This is repeated in the finale with everyone along in the cornrows with all the supernaturally-powered vines which leads into the sacrifice at the end which really works well and amounts to all that's positive. The flaws, though, are more detrimental in their quality than quantity since there's not much but it does have very damaging ones mostly centered on the couple in the beginning. They're constant arguing over everything gets old quickly, as the physical and verbal abuse of them arguing over everything really strains credibility that these are supposedly the heroes. This is certainly not heroic behavior and to do it is really troubling by making the leads so irritating and annoying when we get introduced to them. Another big point here is the rather maddening and delusional religious banter throughout here, which are so hackneyed and moronic that it's not only impossible to take seriously but also rather curious as for why anyone would join up with their crusade which is a major testament to the grand amount of nonsense uttered here. The other it of contention is the point of including the flashback to Vietnam which is plain confusing and doesn't accomplish anything, though this isn't as bad as the other flaws. Overall, these are the ones that lower this version.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, a sex scene and continuous threatening situations toward children.

Reanna Keller I actually enjoyed this remake. Here is a review that is about the good stuff, not the bad.The remake is definitely stays faithful to the short story by King. The original is awesome but hardly follows the SS. This stays true and you will notice the similarities if you have read it.I think the acting is wonderful. The boy who plays Isaac is creepy and adorable at the same time. I believe Malachai is better this time around than the first. He seems a little more darker and more intimidating. Burt and Vicki player by David and Kandyse do a great job as a couple who are having problems. Their acting is believe able and nothing tacky.Being a big fan of COTC, I think this should not be looked over. It is way better than some of the sequels.

alex wolfman Of all the Stephen King books and films, I find the movie Children of the Corn to be about the most interesting. As a fan of horror movies, I think films with children as villains seem to work for me. Poltergeist and Insidious are two quality horror movies that involve children and families. Village of the Damned was another and this spawned others. Children of the Corn is one of the most interesting of these films because of it's originality, atmosphere and it involved many kids, not just one. This series had some sequels with the first one coming out in 1984 with mixed reviews. The most recent in the series was a remake on the Syfy Channel in 2009 eight years after the last one.This remake uses most of all all the same ideas of the original including corn fields in Nebraska and kids with religious views who have killed their parents and looking to strike again. This time the victims are an argumentative couple who were on their way to a honeymoon trip in California.As a creepy kid film, it is very important that there are good performances from the child actors. Here, I was disappointed in the child characters. Other than the Isaac character (Preston Bailey) just about every kid plays their part like extras. At the same time, these characters are not creepy and don't work well as villains.Even though you could pick at it a little and get maybe something, there isn't much of a plot here. I do like the leads of David Anders and Kandyse McClure but they aren't given much to do and they really mope around a lot. There are some interesting sets here but the kill scenes are not particularly good. There are some beneath the surface ideas that do come into play here. and these include the idea of race, spiritual aspects of the corn and religious overtones throughout.Of course you can't take any of this story too seriously, but obviously there is no way something like this could happen in our country with our government. A town full of killer kids and young pregnant girls would be responded to quickly by the police and military and would be a CNN headliner for weeks. A minor flaw maybe but still hard to overlook.I found Children of the Corn to be disappointing and a movie with an hour and half plot that ran too long at two hours. This is a TV film that feels like a tornado stringing things and ideas around with no purpose and really just wasting our time.

Leofwine_draca Originally a short story by Stephen King, the CHILDREN OF THE CORN concept has produced a veritable goldmine for Hollywood producers over the years, ever since the 1984 film adaptation proved a smash hit and the inevitable sequels followed. They continued through the 1990s (seven to date), and then somebody decided that enough time had passed to remake the first film. I wish they hadn't bothered: this is an awful, pointless, plot less movie and, even worse, made for television!At least that accounts for the distinct lack of adult content, although I understand there is an unrated version available in some territories (I won't be checking out: a few snippets of gore will make no difference to this travesty). The wholehearted blame for the failure of this production can be laid at the door of scriptwriter/director Donald P. Borchers (perhaps that's a misspelling of Butcher, given his handling of the material here), who has somehow managed to create one of the most irritating characters ever seen in a movie. Yes, I'm talking about Kandyse McClure's character of Vicky, the protagonist's wife, who shrill and incessant howling every time she appears on screen is enough to make the ears bleed.Still, the rest of the film isn't anything to write home about. The 'hero', David Anders, is a bland man indeed, a supposed Vietnam war veteran who acts and feels nothing like a soldier. A late on scene, in which he begins to hallucinate fellow soldiers crawling through the corn, is one of the most unintentionally funny scenes I've witnessed in a while; they way they film it just makes it look like Anders has joined up with a few of his fellow comrades to help combat the menace, and I still chuckle thinking about it even now.Meanwhile, the film contains absolutely nothing of note. There's a single plot point at the beginning, another one an hour in, and then the seen-it-coming ending about half an hour later. Way too much screen time is given over to characters running around aimlessly. The titular children aren't menacing in the least; one thing I remember from the original film is how creepy the actor playing Isaac was, but the Isaac here is much younger, cuter, and hearing him preach in that soft, whiny little voice is anything but frightening. Bland, boring, predictable…need I say more about this movie? Occasionally remakes work, and even more rarely they turn out to be better than the original, but that's definitely not the case here!