Review of Children of the Corn (1984) by Toh H — 16 Jan 2012
Children of the Corn frustrates me, because I absolutely love the first 2/3 of it. Everything up to when the wife is kidnapped. Everything after that disintegrates into ridiculousness, and the movie's main bad-ass is taken down by an average middle aged guy in seconds.
What the movie really is about, to me, is how scary older kids seem when you're young. When you're in grade school, the high-schoolers might as well be Greek Gods, with a perfect match of power and emotional instability. When you're a kid, the skinny 15 year old who carries a pocket knife everywhere, might as well be the devil himself.
This movie really works best when seen as a kid (which is when I first saw it), to fully see how scary the killer teenagers are. Then of course the last 1/3 is just adults fixing everything and magic monsters, which is a damn shame.
This review of Children of the Corn (1984) was written by Toh H on 16 Jan 2012.
Children of the Corn has generally received mixed reviews.
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