Don't Trust the Talking Corn

Children of the Corn

When you here the name Stephen King, what do you associate it with? For most he is one of the most resound authors of his time. “Children of the Corn” is one of King’s finest works, but what is the true meaning of this book and movie? The children in the movie belong to a religious cult around a blood thirsty deity called “He Who Walks Behind The Rows”, but who is he and why does walk behind the rows? The movie and book suggest the cult is an adult figure, but in all reality it is the corn that is the one responsible for causing the children to become mass murderers.

Children believing in a false God, also known as the talking corn fields, and killing their parents and other adults in a small town, yep you betcha! A classic Nebraska small town horror story.  Some people have related the horror scenes to those actions of Jim Jones, the Kool-Aid man.

Children are not to be trusted ion packs so to say, but in the movie, the children go on a killing spree with a cool dispatch. The demon seeds of a horror movie as one critic wrote about the children. Children of the Corn is a movie that will keep you on edge and keep you tense, but it shows that children do have minds of their own and will do what they please. So next time you are in a corn field, ask yourself, are you walking with “He Who Walks Behind The Rows”?

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-Tim Mitchell