Children of the Corn2020

Name: Children of the Corn
Genre: Slasher, Supernatural, Folk Horror, Survival
Released: 2020-10-23
Rating: 3.7

“Every parent's nightmare as you've never seen it before.”

Directed by Kurt Wimmer

3.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 3.8Rotten Tomatoes 11%Metacritic 22TMDB 5.0

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Year

2020

Runtime

93 min

Box Office

Budget

$800,000

Domestic

$325,583

The premise

A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt 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.

Horror Vault's take

In a small Nebraska farming town, a disturbed twelve-year-old harnesses the fury and desperation of the local children, forging them into a deadly cult with a bloody agenda. As the body count rises and the adults fall one by one, a lone teenage girl refuses to drink the Kool-Aid — making herself the primary obstacle standing between the town and total slaughter. This reimagining of Stephen King's classic short story leans into the mythology of the cornfields while carving out its own violent identity. Expect an unsettling examination of what happens when the youngest and most vulnerable become the most dangerous.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Violence Involving Children, Disturbing Imagery