“Children of the Corn” is now a horror film that lacks the strength to infect anyone with even a speck of fear.
’s short story — published in 1977, at the heart of his shivery heyday. The tale of a group of Nebraska farm-town children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields, it was like a slasher version of “Lord of the Flies,” with a touch of the creepiness of “The Wicker Man.” The kids killed the adults around them, but the scariest thing about them is that they’d become a cult.
The new “Children of the Corn” is the 11th film to have been sprung from King’s story. The most famous is the 1984 big-screen version, though there were eight sequels , and the iconography has been referenced by everything from “South Park” to Eminem to Kendrick Lamar to “Wreck-It Ralph.” The new version is technically a prequel, though all that really means is that the heart of King’s story has now been ripped out and tossed aside. Early on, a sullen adolescent grabs a knife and walks into the Rylestone Children’s Home, where he proceeds to kill every adult in sight. Viewng this as a hostage situation, the local farmers place a hose in the building and use it to spray the cow anesthetic Halathane, which kills 15 children. That they would do this makes no sense.
The town children, now led by Eden , a survivor of the Children’s Home massacre, want to extract their revenge. But the film’s writer-director, Kurt Wimmer, also introduces a half-baked theme of “environmentalism,” as the children fight to save the corn crops that have been poisoned by toxic chemicals. So they’re eco activist…uh, monster kids. If the movie actually wanted to be relevant, it might have played off the issue of how much of the corn grown in the United States is now GMO.
Eden, the kid-cult ringleader in her braided pigtails, is sort of like Drew Barrymore in “Firestarter” crossed with the demon child from the “Orphan” films. It’s not Kate Moyer’s fault that she plays her with a smirk you’d expect to encounter at an early script read-through; that’s how pedestrian and underimagined this production is. The best actor in the film is Elena Kampouris.
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