- The Original Stephen King Classic Is Back Now With Three All-New Featurettes! Twenty-five years after its original release, it remains one of the top shockers of the 80s and perhaps the most popular Stephen King story adaptation ever. Something is alive in the cornfields of desolate Gatlin, Nebraska, and the town s children will do anything to protect its horrific secret. But when a traveling coup
The Original Stephen King Classic Is Back – Now With Three All-New Featurettes! Twenty-five years after its original release, it remains one of the top shockers of the ‘80s and perhaps the most popular Stephen King story adaptation ever. Something is alive in the cornfields of desolate Gatlin, Nebraska, and the town’s children will do anything to protect its horrific secret. But when a traveling couple (Peter Horton of thirtysomething and pre-TERMINATOR Linda Hamilton) are taken prisoner by the killer kid cult, their battle for survival will unleash the most unholy sacrifice of all. The day that Isaac, Malachai, He Who Walks Behind the Rows and millions of CoTC fans have been waiting for has finally arrived: The original CHILDREN OF THE CORN is back, now in Blu-ray and loaded with exclusive new Bonus Features.The murder rate is as high as an elephant’s eye in this flaccid adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called “He Who Walks Behind the Rows.” King’s original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal mélange of Southern-gothic atmosphere and E.C. Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralizes by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story’s morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch’s direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody “service”) delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac’s hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful, and the depiction of the Lovecraftian monster-god as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin Itt in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999′s Children of the Corn 666. –Paul Gaita
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March 21, 2010
#1
Why isn’t this on dvd??
It’s not fair I tell you.
It should be on dvd for those of us
who don’t have Blu-Ray.
What gives?
March 21, 2010
#2
The Audio is better than the Video in this stupid and dumb movie. I’m glad I will be returning it.
March 22, 2010
#3
How can a horrible movie like this (and I saw it as a young horror fanatic) make it to blu-ray, and a classic like The Howling or (more importantly) The Exorcist not be out on blu-ray? We saw this as kids and made fun of it… it’s so bad! Bad script, dialogue, pacing of scenes, effects… you name it.
“Cujo” was a better low budget attempt. “Stand By Me” blows them all out of the water as a King cinematic adaptation from the same time period. I will say, it’s probably not as irritating as the adaptation of “Lawnmower Man” from the same book of short stories, “Night Shift” (not to be confused with the Michael Keaton Henry Winkler Shelly Long comedy).
March 22, 2010
#4
Version: U.S.A / Starz / Anchor Bay / Region Free
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS
Running time: 1:32:11
Movie size: 26,730,387,456 bytes
Disc size: 35,419,879,645 bytes
Total bit rate: 38.66 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 30.92 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 3584 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3584 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Number of chapters: 20
#Audio commentary with Director, Producer Terrence Kirby, and Actors
#Fast Film Facts – pop-up trivia track
#Welcome to Gatlin: The Sights & Sounds (HD – 15m:28s)
#It Was the Eighties! (HD – 14m:09s)
#Stephen King on a Shoestring (HD – 11m:20s)
#Harvesting Horror (SD – 36m:14s)
#Theatrical trailer (HD – 1m:27s)
#Still galleries
#BD-Live enabled
March 22, 2010
#5
I’ve really love; -this masterpeice.. -Not as brilliant as a
masterpeice though. -I’ve herd that a real; -special
edition with extra features are comming out..! -That’s
why I did not get the original edition..! -Becuase it’s
just waste of money that you spend it on some DVD with
out the goodie’s.. -I’m a goodie’s; -fan’s..!!
I think that; -Stephen king.. -Will finally; -respect
his art of work..! -Even he’s not included in the extra’s..!
I’ve saw this movie when I was a child..! -It totally did
freaked me out at the end..! -Even the beginning where he
slaughter’s all the parent’s..! -I’ve seen this on video
when my dad wooed rent lot’s of these horror movie’s when
this one came out.! -I remember this flick; -perfectly
Well..! -I can’t weight too see the digg’s of this new
Special edition.. -I think the transfer will be top notch..?
any how; -it is just an old movie..! -Old movie’s; -can’t
seem too be better..! -These day’s..! -I’ve also have
“Creepshow 2..” -1987.. -Which had nothing..! -I’ve guest
I’ve shooed of gotten the original with it..! -But I’ve
cerntinaly enjoy this better then; -”Creepshow..” -1982..
Back with the; -flick..! -I’ve think that; -Children of
the Corn II: -The Final Sacrifice..” -1992.. -Was a lot
better..! -Yep..! -They totally messed the sequel’s up..!
Permintally..! -The other’s had nothing too deal with the
second one..! -If you are a hardcore fan..!! -Stick with
this; -and; -the second one..?
A couple of travlers from a country site..!! -Vickie and
Burt..! -Go two a rural
town.. -As they’ve discover a deadly secret of the town’s
history..! -Their own fate..!! -A crazy wacho preacher
has brutally kille the parent’s; -after a service at the
church..! -Until; -Vickie and burt..! -As
the two stumble into a corn field..! -They run over a kid..!
They meet some kid’s at some secluded farm house..! -And
take them with them..? -But the town know’s their here..?
and Issac.. -The town loony preacher..? -Will not give up
with out a fight; -as they fight and kill a gasstation
man and his dog.. -The ending is a resemblance of; -John
Carpenter’s; -”The Thing..” -1982.. -Were we see some
god alwfull human that Issac has brought down..?
The ending is downright; -waterdown..!! -Their are great
moment’s; -in this flick..! -But sometime’s the movie
can bore you or just entertain you; -from the beginning..!
Never the less..! -This was a fun movie two watch..!!
I’ll be glad too have fun with it..? -Again..!