Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

utgard14 Another pointless horror remake. This one lacking in anything suspenseful, frightening, or unique. The title children in this one aren't as menacing or creepy as in the original. Instead the viewer is put in the bizarre position of rooting against the protagonists. I just hated this couple and wanted them dead sooner rather than later. Their bickering was infuriating to watch and listen to. I found nothing sympathetic in either character and just wanted them gone, unlike the original film where I liked and cared for the two leads. The one positive I will say about the film is that Kandyse McClure is an exceptionally beautiful woman. Unfortunately she's wasted in this shrewish part. David Anders is also wasted. I'm familiar with the work of both of these leads from television shows and they are solid likable actors when given the right material. Here they are saddled with poor parts and that's a crying shame.

trick_morr I was able to get to the end of this movie, but... only because I wanted to see how this version differed from the 1980s version, and to also see if this version was any truer to the original Stephen King story.The two main characters were definitely more true to the original short story. Their bickering was pretty nasty, but the woman was overdone in her acidic nastiness, to the point of straining the boundaries of disbelief. Anyway, their acting was sincere and created a believable tension where the events that followed had their opening.The movie was better in many ways than the 80s version, all except for one main glaring error. The casting of whoever played Isaac, the child leader/preacher. His line delivery was slush-mouthed and weak, words trailing off too quietly, with no believable passion. For the casting of a evangelical preacher, this particular child was an absolutely terrible choice. Every time he had any screen time or lines, I just kept saying "nope, no, nuh-uh, NOPE" in my head. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief and the obvious failure in the casting choice just kept bringing me out of the story.The casting of Malachi was too much a mimicry of the 80s version. Its difficult to cast children for TV movies, I assume, but at least get some kids who don't speak as though they've been novacained.If you're a Stephen King fan, this might be worth exploring. If you were a fan of the original movie adaptation, well maybe then, too. Otherwise, there are much better choices.

Paul Andrews Children of the Corn is set in 1975 & starts as Vietnam vet Burt Stanton (David Anders) & his wife Vicky (Kandyse McClure) drive across Nebraska, Burt decides to leave the highway & take the scenic route which leads to an argument between himself & Vicky. While not paying attention to the road Burt runs a young boy down, when Burt looks at the boy's body he notice's that his throat had been cut & it was only a matter of time before he had died anyway. The couple decide to drive to a town called Gatlin, the nearest town for miles in any direction. Once there Burt & Vicky find it completely abandoned & like it has been deserted since the early 60's, then while looking around Vicky is kidnapped by a group of children who have killed all the adults & sacrifice anyone older than nineteen to their God who they worship who they call He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Burt discovers this & attempts to find & save Vicky as well as himself from the children who insist on a blood sacrifice to He Who Walks Behind the Rows...Written, produced & directed by Donald P. Borchers this made for television remake of a short story by Stephen King has been panned by pretty much everyone but I have to say I quite liked it, sure it's no masterpiece but I found it watchable enough. Originally a short story written by Stephen King in 1977 that featured in his anthology Night Shift (which is a fine read by the way) Children of the Corn was first adapted to the silver screen in 1984 in a version that many seem to dislike although I am again of the opposite opinion & really like it before numerous sequels came out starting with Children of the Corn II: The Final Scarifice (1992) & Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) being the latest installment while this was made somewhere between them. The original short story by King was only fifteen pages long & this sticks to it closely, in fact it's far more faithful than the 1984 version. I liked the first hour a lot, the build-up & when everything is still a mystery but once the children feature more regularly & the script tries to flesh them out & give them reasons for what they do it falls apart a little. None of it is particularly convincing & it's hard to believe that children could kill every adult in town & no-one ever finds out. What about supplies? The electric company? Friends & relatives of the adult's? At just under 90 minutes it moves along at a good pace & has some nice moments although the constant bickering between Burt & Vicky gets annoying, the constant arguments & insults make both character's quite unlikable & while you can tolerate them for fifteen pages of a story it's more difficult to sit through over an hour of them sniping at each other & moaning. The script stays focused on the story & doesn't get sidetracked with subplots & the story builds quite nicely before we get an ending that is more downbeat & faithful to the short story even though it's not an audience pleaser.The film takes place entirely in the small town & the outer corn fields of the 70's, the period explains the lack of technology & mobile phone's I suppose. There's some gore in it, a Pig is cut open, there's a slit throat throat, some blood splatter, a few dead bodies & someone gets a compound fracture of his arm. The children themselves are all dressed in black and white clothes like Amish, the one little kid Isacc has this huge hat on which looks a bit daft & some of the kid's are just too cute looking & not menacing enough. There's a little bit of sex & nudity as well but nothing too explicit.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 this looks a lot better than the usual SyFy Channel film & I suspect they didn't make it & only brought the rights to show it after it was finished, filmed in Iowa. The acting is alright, the two leads do what's asked of them even if their character's are unlikable.Children of the Corn is a good story & I have to say that I like both the original 1984 adaptation & this 2009 version although I prefer the former, this isn't that bad at all actually & thought it was perfectly watchable & even quite effective at times although maybe it doesn't satisfy completely.

djderka Basic plot: the very vivacious Vicky(Kandyse McClure)is sadly married to a dork "Marine" Burton (David Anders), he who acts like he barely passed Cub Scouts, travel to a small town in Nebraska and encounter biblical bigots hiding in the cornfields.I can't believe there aren't more movie with Kandyse in them. What happened? She is really cool...They find a body in the road and try and get him to "authorities". But bull headed Burton of course does everything his way despite the warnings to the contrary by Vicky.They get stuck in an abandoned town and in the worst case of oblivious ever on film, Vicky is tormented in her car, while Burton reads some old log books. Look up oblivious - it says see Burton in Children of the Corn. Oh, I forgot he is the only Marine totally oblivious of his surroundings. As I said...Cub Scout. He even fails to notice a bible thumper behind him with a sledge hammer while in an alley.So best line in the movie is when Burton finally comes out and says whoa! what are you doing to my babe. Little Issac (who should have been bitch slapped eons ago), says she is to be sacrificed. So this young, "tough" Marine says, "Just wait till I tell authorities". Could he be more of a weenie roaster?After 45 minutes of him on the run and thrashing about the cornfields, he finally finds Vicky.A message to Donald Borchers who wrote the movie...He who writes terrible scripts shall suffer condemnation and smitten by an inability to write and/or direct such movies...so saith the lord. And ye shall be banished among the bluemen. Amen.This movie is only worth viewing as long as Kandyse is on the screen, she is beautiful, has screen presence and can act, unlike everyone else in the movie. He who watches movies with beautiful girls shall watch many of them. Turn off the film as soon as she disappears after the car trashing scene. You are done with the movie.This could have been a great short. The couple is traveling down the road...he sees the body. They argue, he gets out of the car to enter the cornfield. She drives away leaving his ass behind. The End.