Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short […]
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There’s a new crop in the cornfields. Yes, the long-running Children of the Corn franchise is back yet again with another installment. In fact, it’s the third eponymously titled feature of the brand (following 1984’s and 2009’s), only this one comes from the mind of writer-director Kurt Wimmer, who has harvested his own reimagining of […]
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Stephen King‘s 1977 short story inspired an entire Children of the Corn franchise nearly a dozen deep, each new entry drifting further away from the source material. Writer/Director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Ultraviolet) keeps that momentum going with the franchise’s eleventh installment, an entry that bears very little in common with King’s story other than murderous kids, an abundance of corn, […]
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Director Kurt Wimmer’s new take on Stephen King’s horror story Children of the Corn has been acquired for release by RLJE Films and Shudder, with the companies recently announcing that the film will first hit theaters on March 3 for an 18-day theatrical run. King’s story and the franchise it birthed followed murderous children who worshipped the mysterious entity “He Who Walks […]
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