Children of Corn [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Peter Horton
  • Actor : Linda Hamilton
  • Actor : R.G. Armstrong
  • Actor : John Franklin
  • Actor : Courtney Gains
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Peter Horton
  • Creator : Linda Hamilton
  • Creator : Charles Weber
  • Creator : Donald P. Borchers
  • Creator : Earl A. Glick
  • Creator : Mark Lipson
  • Creator : Terrence Kirby
  • Creator : George Goldsmith
  • Creator : Stephen King
  • Director : Fritz Kiersch
  • EAN : 0013131273298
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Special Edition
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
  • MPN : ANBD12732D
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : ANBD12732D
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2004-09-28
  • Running Time : 92
  • SKU : 002001008013131273298
  • Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
  • UPC : 013131273298

The murder rate is as high as an elephant's eye in Children of the Corn, a flaccid adaptation of Stephen King's short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy-roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". King's original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal mélange of Southern-Gothic atmosphere and EC Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralises by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful. The depiction of the monster-God as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin It in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666.--Paul Gaita, Amazon.com

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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