

Children of the Corn
And a child shall lead them...
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.
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5.7/10
1,191 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
- Box office
- $14.6M
- Language
- English
- small town
- sacrifice
- halloween
- children gang
- human sacrifice
- paganism
- evil preacher
- preacher
- based on short story
- religious cult
- killer child
- folk horror
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR9 Mar 1984
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical189 Mar 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1411 Dec 1986
FranceFR
- Theatrical1230 Jan 1985
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1625 May 1984
IrelandIE
- Theatrical183 May 1985
ItalyIT
- Theatrical16 Oct 1984
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical194 Dec 2002
SpainES
- Theatrical182 Aug 1984
SwedenSE
- Theatrical159 Mar 1984
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Children of the Corn was released on 9 March 1984.
Audience reviews
4- J6/10
John Chard
5/21/2019
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 bit, well, corny. Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton get trapped in a village of the damned where the children have kil…
- W5/10
Wuchak
8/1/2019
***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 around. Horror ensues. “Children of the Corn” (1984) takes the remote Plains town setting of “The Last Picture Show” (1…
- D4/10
Dr Nostromo
7/2/2026
41/100 A couple stumbles into a small town populated by a malevolent and fanatical cult of children. Finally got around to seeing this and I expected it to be a product of its time. And, I was right ...and less. The first 50 mins could have been condensed down to 15. In fact, at about the 50 min mark, one of our protagonist says, "Things just aren't happening fast enough", to which I blurted out, "Oh, I agree. Abs…
- S4/10
skeletonbow
10/21/2026
I remember watching this back in the 80s when I was in my youth and it was scary and creepy at the time I guess compared to what we were used to then. I decided to revisit the film in 2026 for nostalgia sake and it was quite disappointing and doesn't hold up to the childhood memories. The pacing of the film is incredibly slow, it really drags on. The dialogue and acting is quite poor, while also overly drama…
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