MOVIE · 1984

Children of the Corn

HorrorThriller93 min

Driving through rural Nebraska, a young couple stumble into Gatlin, a town where the adults are gone and the children answer to something in the corn. Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton are the stranded travelers, moving from empty streets and boarded-up homes toward a cult built on sacrifice, scripture, and fear of the presence the locals call “He Who Walks Behind the Rows.” At the center is John Franklin, the young prophet directing the town’s deadly new order as the cornfields themselves take on a supernatural menace.