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Children of the Corn
1984
· Movie
· 92 min
D
MEANRANK
51/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5219
- IMDb #5150
- Google retired #3440
- Rotten Tomatoes #4341
- Metacritic #4308
- Letterboxd #4877
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4399
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4563
- Metacritic Audience #4561
- Criticker #3358
- Douban #2571
- Kinopoisk #4874
- AlloCiné #5095
- Trakt #4860
Every rating
31–68
out of 100
A young couple driving through Nebraska accidentally hits a child and discovers his body has been cut. They seek help in a remote town, only to find it is populated solely by children who worship a malevolent entity in the cornfields and murder any adult who enters their territory.
Details
- Director
- Fritz Kiersch
- Writer
- George Goldsmith
- Based on
- Children of the Corn by Stephen King
- Released
- 9 March 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $800.0K
- Box office
- $14.6M
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