Children of the Corn

Name: Children of the Corn
Genre: Horror
Released: March 3, 2023
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 22
Cast: Alyla Browne, Connor Burke, Elena Kampouris, Izaac Burke, Kate Moyer

2023

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Movie Details & Credits

RLJE Films | Release Date: March 3, 2023 | R

Starring: Alyla Browne, Connor Burke, Elena Kampouris, Izaac Burke, Kate Moyer, Luke Dean, Mike Duncan, Miranda Cash, Sebastian Alanis Alvarez, Trey Daniels

Summary: Possessed by a spirit in a dying cornfield, a twelve-year-old girl in Nebraska recruits the other children in her small town to go on a bloody rampage and kill all the adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.

Director: Kurt Wimmer

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Mar 3, 2023

While the first Children of the Corn was made on a reported budget of $800,000, it somehow doesn’t look as cheap as this new Children of the Corn, which eventually delivers just enough formulaic violence. Read full review

Matt Donato

Mar 3, 2023

Kurt Wimmer’s newfangled Children of the Corn is a rotten husk of a Stephen King adaptation. Read full review

Polygon Katie Rife

Mar 10, 2023

While it isn’t the worst film the franchise has to offer, that’s only because the competition is so weak. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 27, 2023

This “Corn” sat on the shelf during COVID lockdown, but we can’t say it went stale during the delay. This was cynical in conception and rotten in execution long before the masks came out. Read full review

Collider Marco Vito Oddo

Feb 27, 2023

As well-intentioned as the new Children of the Corn might be, it misses the mark by mixing a confusing ecological message with bland scares, forgetting what makes King’s story so enticing in the first place. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Feb 28, 2023

Like a virus that keeps coming back but growing weaker each time, Children of the Corn is now a horror movie that lacks the strength to infect you with even a speck of fear. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Mar 2, 2023

Wimmer has now twice disproved his ability to rehash old scripts through his terrible updatings of Total Recall and Point Break. Now he exhibits zero visual skill as writer/director of Children of the Corn, an unwatchable reboot of Stephen King's 1977 short story about a blood cult of rural Nebraskan kids who slaughter all adults to the monstrous He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Read full review

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TarasDemchenko

Mar 27, 2023

A perfect movie to enjoy for horror fans. It knows what it is and it knows who's the target audience.

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ozymandias79

Mar 24, 2023

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wmurphy011

Apr 28, 2023

Unbelievably bad. I feel bad for the kids in it because I'm sure they tried their best with what they were given. The faults lie in the writing, directing and production.

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Gumdrop

Mar 21, 2023

The original Children of the Corn was probably one of the weaker 80s horror movies. Once you got past the creepy kids there really wasn't much to it. But, they still churned out a host of sequels with various degrees of terribleness. Of all the classic horror movies out there, Children ofThe original Children of the Corn was probably one of the weaker 80s horror movies. Once you got past the creepy kids there really wasn't much to it. But, they still churned out a host of sequels with various degrees of terribleness. Of all the classic horror movies out there, Children of the Corn least needed more than 1. But yet here we are with yet another one and I don't know where in the scale of badness it rates. But it shouldn't exist.

I don't know who I'm more angry with. The people who made it or myself for watching the thing in the first place. I knew what I was getting myself into and still I watched it. And I foolishly watched the whole thing in some misguided belief that maybe, maybe this one will get better. But it never does. It just never does.… Expand

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