Oct 12 2009
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
I knew a remake was coming!
PLOT
Boy preacher Isaac convinces a group of kids in the small town of Gatlin, Nebraska that everyone over the age of 19 is steeped in sin (as per dreams sent by God/He Who Walks Behind the Rows) so they slaughter all their parents and other adults in town. Twelve years later, Vietnam vet Burt is traveling down a Nebraska road with his unhappy wife Vicky. The two fight, a kid runs out in the road, they hit him and Burt discovers that he had his throat slashed beforehand. When the couple arrive in town, they come face to face with the kids and realize that they might not make it out alive.
TRIVIA
Stephen King was sent a copy of the screenplay, but returned it without reading it and despite sharing a writing credit, has never seen the Children of the Corn remake.
THOUGHTS
I was in Kentucky for a family reunion when this originally aired on the Syfy Channel and I watched about 15 minutes of it before I got distracted by family members. When I saw it on the Wal-Mart shelf, I decided to just go ahead and buy a copy. I can’t say I’m disappointed, nor can I say that I’m that happy. Children of the Corn is definitely better than the original, but the character of Vicky is so annoying that I couldn’t wait for her to die. My former Marine boyfriend was about to climb in the television and bitch slap her for the comments made about a vet (saying that he killed the kid on purpose, mocking him for killing women and kids during the war, etc.). Had they made her just a little more sympathetic, I think I would have liked this a lot more.
