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Closed Caption; Widescreen presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs; "Harvesting Horror: Children of the Corn" -- An all-new documentary featuring interviews with director Fritz Kiersch and actors John Franklin and Courtney Gains; Audio commentary with director Fritz Kiersch, producer Terence Kirby and actors John Franklin and Courtney Gains; Theatrical trailer; Original storyboard art; Poster and still gallery; Original title sequence art; DVD-ROM: Original screenplay
Full Product DetailsSide #1 --
1. Coffee Shop Massacre (Main Titles) [6:19]
2. Birthday Serenade [3:51]
3. Welcome to Nebraska [4:20]
4. Death in the Cornfield [7:27]
5. Deadly Games [2:44]
6. Isaac [2:41]
7. Gas Station Geezer [3:27]
8. Defiance [4:21]
9. Satanic Sermon [4:07]
10. Ghost Town [3:36]
11. House of Secrets [7:29]
12. Children of the Corn [5:55]
13. Ritual of Blood [6:18]
14. Desperate Pursuit [5:04]
15. Isaac Overthrown [3:28]
16. Field of Screams [6:47]
17. He Who Walks Behind the Rows [4:38]
18. Inferno [4:06]
19. One Last Stab [1:52]
20. End Credits [3:23]
Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to escape through the cornfields of Gatlin. Meanwhile, Burt Stanton (Peter Horton), a commitment-phobic young doctor, and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton), his frustrated girlfriend, travel through the cornfield-lined roads of Nebraska on their way to Burt's new internship in Omaha. Their car hits Joseph, who appears out of nowhere, but upon examining him, Burt realizes the child's throat was slit before he ever wandered out from the corn. Attempting to locate help, Burt and Vicky turn to gas-station owner Diehl (R.G. Armstrong), who urges the couple to go anywhere but nearby Gatlin to report the murder. Several contradictory street signs later, they arrive in Gatlin anyway, and, befriending Sarah and Joseph, attempt to uncover the mystery behind Isaac's cult and its mysterious deity, known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Stephen King cash-ins flooded the market between the successes of Brian DePalma's Carrie (1976) and Rob Reiner's Misery (1990), many of them, like Children of the Corn, based only loosely on the author's fiction. The original short story appeared in the collection Night Shift. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Abundant throat-slashings, stabbings, beatings, climactic explosions. A juvenile is struck by a car. A dog is killed (offscreen), and another character's hand forced is toward a deli meat slicer (though we don't get to see the results). A w... More
Abundant throat-slashings, stabbings, beatings, climactic explosions. A juvenile is struck by a car. A dog is killed (offscreen), and another character's hand forced is toward a deli meat slicer (though we don't get to see the results). A willing human sacrifice cuts himself in ritual bloodletting. Close
Christ's name in vain (ironically).
A radio preacher says "fornicator" (without defining it), and that's about all.
Not an issue.
Not an issue.
About Children of the Corn
Parents need to know that this film is filled with bloody violence, including a wholesale massacre of adults by their own children. The portrayal of a community run by kids who have killed all the parents isn't remotely pleasant or idealized, but it's still disturbing.
Families can talk about the film's ultimate message, that fire-and-brimstone fundamentalist Christianity (at least Hollywood's stereotype of it) has let the barn door open for a demonic force to enter and take over rural Gatlin, Nebraska. Those in religious households can check out the Bible passages that this movie uses to support its dire warning about false prophets. On the whole, is this movie favorable to faith or against it?