Directed by Fritz Kiersch
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
did they just forget they had the body of dead kid in the trunk of their car that whole time
Why was this so boring... corn fields are scary, cults are scary, children are scary... so why wasn’t this scary? The ending was so anticlimactic that it was funny
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Legend has it that little Joey’s body is still rotting in that trunk.
How can a film with a concept like this be so dull?
great commercial for birth control
Isaac has seriously sinister theater kid energy
The literal definition of “fuck them kids bro”
They did say ACAB though so they weren’t 100% wrong
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I hate children.
Midwest Midsommar.
I first encountered an inkling of this supernatural folk horror killer kid cult corn jam’s existence from the Night Shift paperback.
A specific edition of said book featured the movie poster for this as it’s cover, and it was sticking out from my mother’s bag while on a long drive from New Jersey deep into Pennsylvania. I gazed at it for what felt like hours as we drove through the winding rural farm filled backroads... running my hands over the creased orange cover and spotting the eyes in the cornstalks.
I didn’t read/watch the story/movie until a few years later when, on another driving excursion with my folks, I HBO watched this under cover of blankets at a…
this movie is so lol
Imagine breaking into a home, rifling through a strangers’ stuff, loudly calling the place a dump…. after hitting a child with your car. This couple deserves everything that came their way. Survival instincts of an egg.
PROS
- That cheap 80’s feel.
- The sun-drenched fields and empty town capture what’s genuinely creepy about the Midwest.
- Leads do what they can with nothing characters.
- Reasonably faithful to the very scary short story.
- Fun, very silly cheap old F/X.
CONS
- Not quite good enough to be good or bad enough to be funny.
- Doesn’t seem to understand what’s scary about kids — their blank amorality — instead making them mustache twirling villains. Also the main kid is obviously and distractingly just a small adult.
- The changes from the story are overly sentimental and undercut the scares.
- Ends with such a sudden shrug that I laughed aloud.
now me personally i would’ve just beat the living shit out of those damn kids. sorry to every adult in this town but i’m built different.
