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#5: Adult Elimination in Children of the Corn
An 80s gem that spawned six sequels and a documentary, this was one of my favorites as a kid. Why? Well, for a really sick, but kewl, reason.
Peter Horton and a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton get lost in the backroads of Nebraska while on a road trip. (Serves them right for getting off the main road. Have they never seen a horror movie?!)
They hit a kid and get stuck in the eerily silent town of Gatlin, Nebraska. Hmm, there sure are a lot of children here. But no adults. Why? I’ll tell you why! Because the kids killed them! That’s right: one day in an extreme massacre, almost all the young’ns in town revolted and killed all the adults! Surprisingly, they couldn’t be stopped, even though there were plenty of adults around who could have revolted. But whatever. This scene is so kewl. They even torture the adults: remember the hand in the blender? Aaa!
This movie is scary enough just with that creepy dude Isaac, but add in a town full of disrespectin’ offspring, and you’re guaranteed to scare every adult who dares to watch this. I wonder how many parents started locking Junior’s door at night?
It was the first time I realized (at age eight) Hey, adults really AREN’T in charge. Kids can be the boss! Yeah!
1732 days ago
This has to be one of my childhood horror movies that marked me the most. Not that I found it terrifying, but rather whenever I go somewhere and see a pack of blonde children my first thought is immediately “children of the cooooorrrrn!”
Like last New Years. My fiancee and I were in Luxembourg for our anniversary, stuck unintentionally out in the middle of nowhere beside this creepy castle. We literally could not get out of the town, as no buses were running during the holidays and it was a good hour from Luxembourg City. Then, mysteriously, in this tiny town with no cafes, restaurants, or visible inhabitants, was a day camp for children. Most blonde and speaking a weird form of German. We spent our entire 4 days there poking each other whenever we saw the kids and whispering “children of the cooooorn!” and then squealing like idiots.
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1731 days ago
Great story, Erin! Creeeepy! :)
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1730 days ago
I should also mention that we arrived in the middle of the local “Dragon Festival” and that the aforementioned freaky children could be seen nightly holding hands and dancing around this gigantic papier mache dragon. Chanting. Yes…chanting.
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1727 days ago
This was one of my all time favorites. I hadn’t seen it in ummm – well – years! We bought the DVD this last October to watch with our kids as a fun fright.
I remember being so scared by this movie, but watching it this year – well let’s just say my kids laughed through the whole thing and the words “this is stupid” seemed to become more a part of the movie than I had remembered.
Guess it’s one of those my husband and I will keep in our library to bring out and watch in our little efforts to recapture our own youth and not share it with the kids anymore :)
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1724 days ago
I know what you mean, Gayla! Kids these days… :)
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