Thread: Children of the Corn (2009) world premiere Tonight (9-26)

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Just a reminder that The Children of the Corn remake (2009) will premiere on the SCFY network tonight at 9PM. Thats channel 244 for those of you with Directv.

Did anybody watch this? have a copy but haven't got round to watching it yet. I was wondering if it was any good.

I thought it was about as good as the original(which isn't saying much) but with a very annoying character. It's one of those movies that have you screaming at the screen to "quit being stupid"...lol!

Thanks Deadna, lol ah the typical stupid character, you get plenty of those in horror movies.

Originally Posted by halloween_sucks_in_the_uk

Did anybody watch this? have a copy but haven't got round to watching it yet. I was wondering if it was any good.

I got screwed on this one. Major thunderstorms passed through and knocked out the DTV signal, the one downside to satellite.

damn I didn't even know this was on...does anyone know if it will be showing again any time soon ?

Originally Posted by Black Friday

damn I didn't even know this was on...does anyone know if it will be showing again any time soon ?

It comes out on DVD tomorrow, I believe.

Originally Posted by rupertoooo

It comes out on DVD tomorrow, I believe.

In your opinion do you think it's worth buying ?

The review below is taken from the IMDB site, I've got a copy of the movie but I still haven't gotten round to watching it.

This was a really good movie. The acting was great, the children were awesome, and it's an incredible live up to the short story. To me, this movie is somewhat better than the original film itself. It's really not that much of a remake of the original, it's like a completely different movie. I guarantee more people will like this movie because I sure did.

Originally Posted by Black Friday

In your opinion do you think it's worth buying ?

No. I will not shell out a street price of $25 dollars for any movie. Here is a well written review of the movie.



I was stoked when there were reports that the original Children of the Corn was being remade by the original film's producers. Actually, the first time I heard this was about a month ago on the new Anchor Bay Blu-Ray release of the original film. This is the type of film that should be remade. The original film had its moments, but was ultimately more goofy then scary, and really strayed way too far from the original King short story. I mean, come on! If I knew 'He Who Walks Behind the Rows" was an orange dust cloud with an animated skull in it mushrooming up into the air, I probably wouldn't have kept watching.

So here we are with yet ANOTHER REMAKE of a film from the 80's. Sure, the original is no prize so I thought it novel to remake it. Even better was the producers dusted off King's draft of the screenplay for the 1984 to act as their springboard. Unfortunately, they rewrote it and made it even worse then the original. It doesn't even have the benefit of the original's unintentional humor, and hysterically unscary lead baddie performance of Isaac. The only thing this film retains from King's short story is the fact that our protagonists are the same bickering couple from the short story as opposed to the first film's in sync couple. Guess what? The acting is so annoying that instead of getting a couple that legitimately has problems we're just harranged for an hour and a hallf of a wife biting her husband's head off. A husband who was a Vietman Vet, the remake is set in 1975. So, guess who's suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome? You guessed right, and the results are hilarious audio flashbacks at the film's climax, and bullet streaks flying through the air. The director of this remake obviously wanted to make a statement in regard to violence and its effects in the real world, but I think it's more half baked window dressing then anything of meaning.

How can I be sure about the director's intentions? Well, the DVD comes with a 45 minute making of doc that allows this pompous, talentless hack expause such lofty intentions. I don't want to sound like a meanine, but this guy seriously spends just as much time putting down the original flick as he does talking up his new version. It's almost like he doesn't take credit for being involved with the first Children of the Corn at all. Really lame self promotion. Oh, and if you're wondering if the great unholy God of this series actually shows up at the end of the film the way King described him in half a paragraph in the original story, you'll be bummed again. Whether or not his final appearance is as lame as the original's orange mushroom cloud is up to you to decide.

The acting is all uniformly terrible. It's by the numbers. The only actors who seem to be trying are the possessed kids, but the problem with that is they come off more like petulent brats then malevolent demonic entities. Sorry, I'm almost convinced that this King story can't be served well on the screen ever. His main villains are small children. Child actors just can't pull off the kind of otheworldly malevolence in any believable way. Sure, they look cute and they're doing nasty things, but one never buys that they are truly evil, but more of a cheap horror effect. Nothing gets to the more simple minded viewer faster and easier then showing a cute kid with a blank stare doing something awful. It's cheap scare tactics that don't even work.

Bottom line, is this thing was premiered and made in conjunction with the Sci-Fi, oops, I mean Sy-Fy(the further dumbing of America in full evidence), so you know the hit and miss average of quality from past efforts. I know there are many out there that have been waiting to see King's story finally get the proper treatment. It's even worse knowing that King himself wrote a screenplay, THAT NO PRODUCER HAS EVEN USED OR EVEN CRIBBED FROM YET! Why? Maybe King should buy back the rights to his script and try making this thing on his own with Darabont or Garris--his most trusted film collaborators. But by the time he sees this latest abomination I doubt the tiny shred of care left in him will allow him to give a damn anymore, if he even gives a damn at all.

Bummer.


Even though he hammers this movie I will still queue it up at Netflix.