"Children of the Corn" feels like the fortieth retelling of the Stephen King short story in a franchise nobody asked for. This time there's no Isaac or Malachai or anything like that. Hoping for a Linda Hamilton cameo in the age of David Gordon Green's "Halloween" reboots? Keep dreaming. This one's all about a no-name cast playing no-substance characters in a very very loose retread of the killer corn kid plot, headed by a little girl who you've probably already guessed is no Isaac. This is a listless, dull film occasionally livened up by a couple of snazzy scenes of violence and a few laughably bad sequences more reminiscent of the terrible recent "Jeepers Creepers" than the more innocent cheesiness of prior "Corn" sequels. "Children of the Corn" was produced in 2020 and released in 2023 after a three-year limbo. It would have been better if it were never made at all.
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