Children of the Corn

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Cast

Peter Horton

as Burton Stanton

Linda Hamilton

as Vicky

R.G. Armstrong

as Diehl

John Franklin

as Isaac Chroner

Courtney Gains

as Malachai

Anne Marie McEvoy

as Sarah

Robby Kiger

as Job

Julie Maddalena

as Rachel

Jonas Marlowe

as Joseph

John Philbin

as Amos

Reviews

John Chard

And a child shall lead them... Who would have thunk it, that one of Stephen King's short stories would spawn a gargantuan movie franchise? Children of the Corn is one of those movies that horror fans of a certain age, who started to blossom in the 1980s, remember fondly but agree that now it's a...

Wuchak

***Children of the damned… in the cornfields of the American prairie*** A young couple traveling through the endless cornfields of Nebraska (Peter Horton & Linda Hamilton) visits a town so far off the beaten track it’s not even on the map. Yet it seems abandoned, except for some kids scurrying ar...

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