{"product_id":"children-of-the-corn-dvd","title":"Children of the Corn [DVD]","description":"Product description\n\nOne quiet Sunday, the children of Gatlin, Nebraska slaughtered all the adults at the instruction of Isaac, a young preacher with mesmerizing powers; three years later, a young couple travelling across the country accidently drive into Gatlin and become pa\nItem Type: DVD Movie\nItem Rating: NR\nStreet Date: 04\/10\/01\nWide Screen: yes\nDirector Cut: no\nSpecial Edition: no\nLanguage: ENGLISH\nForeign Film: noSubtitles: no\nDubbed: no\nFull Frame: no\nRe-Release: no\nPackaging: Sleeve\n\nAmazon.com\n\nThe 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\n\nSet Contains:\n\nAnchor Bay's widescreen presentation is the R-rated theatrical cut (director Fritz Kiersch's cut was longer and gorier) and includes the original trailer and a booklet outlining the story's transition from page to screen. --Paul Gaita\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 6305972591\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.6305972591.N\u003cbr\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003eBinding: DVD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505100333114,"sku":"DBV.6305972591.N","price":15.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/6305972591-0.jpg?v=1783147762","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/children-of-the-corn-dvd","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}