However, the merciless Malachai breaks the pact and murders him, against Isaac's wishes, when Diehl tries to steer the couple away from Gatlin. They find elderly mechanic Diehl, the last adult in Gatlin, but he refuses them service, as he has agreed to supply the children with fuel in exchange for his life. Burt and Vicky place Joseph and his suitcase in their trunk and search for a phone to call for help. However, Burt discovers that his throat was cut beforehand. Elsewhere, a young boy named Joseph tries to flee Gatlin, but is attacked in the corn he stumbles out into the road and Burt accidentally runs him over with his car. Three years later, on October 31, 1983, Vicky Baxter and her boyfriend Burt Stanton travel through rural Nebraska on their way to Seattle, where Burt will start working as a physician. The opening credits reveal that Sarah has visions, portrayed through the credits via drawings.
Only Job and his sister Sarah are not involved, for Sarah was sick, and Job was not allowed to attend the meetings in the corn with the other children. Isaac and his subordinate, 18-year-old Malachai, lead the children in a revolution, murdering all of the adults (ages 19 and up, since 18-year-olds are seen as halfway between teenager and adult) in town as human sacrifices, poisoning and butchering them. However, 12-year-old Isaac Chroner takes all of the children in Gatlin into the cornfields and indoctrinates them into a religious cult based around a bloodthirsty deity called “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”. When the corn crop fails one year, the townsfolk turn to prayer to ensure a successful harvest. In 1980, the town appears to be neglected except for the church, and residents choose Biblical names over more modern ones. The film is set in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, an agricultural community surrounded by huge cornfields. It spawned a franchise of films, and it has gained a cult following, inspiring the rap group with the same name. Filming took place mainly in Iowa, but also in California. This script was disregarded in favor of George Goldsmith's screenplay, which featured more violence and a more conventional narrative structure. King wrote the original draft of the screenplay, which focused more on the characters of Burt and Vicky and depicted more history on the uprising of the children in Gatlin.
Set in the fictitious rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film tells the story of a malevolent entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" which entices the town's children to ritually murder all the town's adults, and a couple driving across the country, to ensure a successful corn harvest. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film's cast consists of Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, and R. Children of the Corn (advertised as Stephen King's Children of the Corn) is a 1984 American supernatural slasher horror film based upon Stephen King’s 1977 short story of the same name.
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