Any viewer seeking a provocative thriller about children collectively murdering their parents is honestly spoiled for choice, and almost all of them are probably better ones than this.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 16, 2024

Descends into some hokey territory that feels quite a ways off from the original story, but the earlier chunks of the narrative manage to honor the source material and its commentaries on organized religion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Well-directed if stolid...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2023

With today’s growing political environment and in its current form, the original is a terrifying depiction of real life, a timeless film that continually retains its relevance.

| Oct 1, 2022

Despite very much being a movie of its time, there is something about director Fritz Kiersch’s folk horror feature from 1984 that I still find enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Tepid special effects and a really jarring twist ending go somewhat to ruin one's generally positive feelings for the overall film.

| Aug 2, 2022

A promising premise is ultimately no match for slapdash visuals effects, dunderheaded protagonists, and amateurish performances from some of the younger actors.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2021

This is not a story that was ever destined to work on film.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2019

The acting and special effects are particularly painful to watch.

| Original Score: D | Oct 4, 2017

Send it to the cornfield, Anthony. That's where it belongs, after all.

| Original Score: D | Mar 14, 2014

Classic Stephen King horror, hardly popping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2010

its dated look reminds us that horror movies were once made with only a camera and buckets of Karo syrup; not marketable teen models and computer-generated effects.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 9, 2009

It's a--look, it has to be said--corny "B" horror flick with a certain je ne sais WTF about it. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 12, 2009

How Children of the Corn continues to be so successful and popular 25 years after its release still remains a mystery ....

| Jul 30, 2009

"Children of the Corn" is memorable, but more as an idea, a feeling, rather than an actual film. It's one of the scary films you saw as a kid and when you rewatch it, you wonder when the scene that scared you so much pops up, but it never does.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2006

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2004