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* In the short story "Sex Education," a town preacher lurks in a cornfield waiting to jump and rape any young girl dumb enough to wander nearby. ItGetsWorse: It's heavily implied by the female characters that a number of other men in their town have similarly questionable hobbies, also involving young girls and cornfields.

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* Vincent Van Gogh's "Cornfield with Crows" (pictured above) is the last thing he ever painted before committing suicide.

* ''[[JurassicPark The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'': [[MemeticMutation "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!"]]

* In ''[[JurassicPark The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' it's tall grass rather than corn, but that doesn't matter since [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Everything's Scarier With Velociraptors]]!

-->"He began to walk in that direction, not having to bull through the corn any more. The row was taking him in the direction he wanted to go, naturally. The row ended up ahead. Ended? No, emptied out into some sort of clearing..."
--->'''-StephenKing''', ''ChildrenOfTheCorn''

There's just something about a field of corn that spells creepy. Maybe it's the fact that corn stalks grow very tall and seem to go on endlessly, preventing anyone who happens to be wandering among them from seeing more than a few feet ahead at a time. Also, each stalk looks exactly the same, so good luck finding your way out. Combined with the fact that they are only found in rural areas, this means that you could be out in the middle of nowhere and no one would see you dissappear, or even be around to hear you scream on the off chance that you are not alone.

* Vincent Van Gogh's "Cornfield with Crows" (pictured above) is the last thing he ever painted before commiting suicide.

* A villain in the ''[[HackSlash Hack/Slash]]'' miniseries ''My First Maniac'' is a vengeful, undead farmer obssessed with keeping people off his property and away from his daughter. Guessed what he farmed.

* There's a scene involving a chase through a cornfield in the movie version of ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''.

* Averted in ''Reaper Man'', where the term "corn" acutally refers to wheat. This doesn't stop many American readers from getting a mental image of Death toiling in a creepy cornfield when they read this {{Discworld}} novel.

* The Jerome Bixby short story "[=~It's a Good Life~=]", where the RealityWarper Anthony Fremont literally sends people who do anything he doesn't like to the cornfield behind his family's home. Served as the basis for a memorable ''{{The Twilight Zone}}'' episode.

* There was a field in ''{{Fallout}} 2'' where some guys would scare intruders through ghostly images [[ScoobyDooHoax to keep them away]]. I ''think'' it was a corn field...

* In the horror AdventureGame ''{{Sanitarium}}'', there's a creepy pumpkin patch in one chapter that fits this trope.

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* In 2010, a horror movie all about murders in a corn maze, creatively called ''The Maze'' was released. Though in actuality, viewers probably do see more corn than murder.

[[caption-width-right:350: And then he killed himself.]]

* Averted in previous centuries, when corn hadn't yet been selectively bred to stand taller than a human. At least one Civil War battle's events [[HistoryMarchesOn had to be re-examined by historians]] when it was pointed out that corn grew only waist-high in the 1860s, hence couldn't have provided cover to standing soldiers.

* There's a scene involving a chase through a cornfield in the movie version of ''[[HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''.

* Also, the scene in the 1967 [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BonnieAndClyde Bonnie And Clyde]], where Bonnie runs away through one because [[spoiler: she misses her momma.]]
* The cornfield rave massacre in ''[[FreddyVsJason Freddy vs. Jason]]''.

* ''JohnnyBravo'', in its episode "Johnny, Real Good" (a parody of ''[[TwilightZone It's A Good Life]]'') has this as one of the torments that the RealityWarper boy inflicts upon Johnny: teleportation to an actual cornfield, which becomes a RunningGag. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, he teleports sleeping Johnny in his bed onto a lonely island--covered with maize.]]

** [[NickTheSwing This troper]] remembers one with a reference to ChildrenOfTheCorn. There were a troop of kids who volunteered to be the AxCrazy cultists and scare people witless. This troper had to hide behind a big piece of hay when the resident red haired BloodKnight walked over and [[ToThePain started saying what he was gonna do.]] It was really damaging because, beforehand, this troper distinctly remembered playing with him, creating some nasty MoodWhiplash when we were friends playing in the area outside, and suddenly he was threatening to ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "offer the youth traitor to He Who Dwells In the Corn, cut his neck ear to ear."]]'' He apologized afterwards.

* ''[[StephenKing Children of the Corn]]'' is probably the example that a lot of people remember, and contributes a great deal to cornfields being associated with creepiness.

* ''{{The Twilight Zone}}'' episode "[=~It's a Good Life~=]", where the RealityWarper Anthony Fremont literally sends people who do anything he doesn't like to a never-ending cornfield.

** Though it later turns out [[spoiler: the farmer isn't the slasher. Also, the cornfield is filled with razor wire and nails.]]

* The cornfield rave in ''[[FreddyVsJason Freddy vs. Jason]]''.

* The ending of the ''CriminalMinds'' episode "The Big Game" takes place in one.

* There's a scene involving a chase through a cornfield in the movie version of ''{{Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince}}''.

* There's a scene involving a chase through a cornfield in the movie version of ''{{Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}''.

** Though it later turns out [[spoiler: the farmer isn't the slasher.]]

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[[caption-width:465: And then he killed himself.]]

* Also, the scene in the original BonnieAndClyde, where Bonnie runs away through one because [[spoiler: she misses her momma.]]