History Film / DisciplesOfTheCrow

* AmbiguousEnding: Unlike the short story, Burt and Vicky manages to successfully escape the town, but their car is heavily damaged, and Burt wonders aloud how a place like Jonah could go undetected for so long, unless it really is protected by a cruel and bloodthirsty God.

* TeensAreMonsters: In present day, the kids are all in their late teens.

A 1983 short film inspired by Creator/StephenKing's short story ''Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn''. Directed, written and edited by John Woodward, the film is only 20 minutes long, and is heavily abridged, but covers the majority of the original story's plot aside from the ending.

Cut to several years later, where bickering couple Vickie and Burt are driving through the corn fields, hopelessly lost, when the hear a strange religious sermon on the radio, and see several signs on the road threatening death to anyone who doesnt worship the land. After hitting a boy who wanders out into the road from the fields, they discover that his throat has been slit, and takes him to the closest town, which happens to be Jonah...

* CompositeCharacter: The leader of the children, Bobby, is a composite of Isaac and Malachai
* CreepyCrows: While still worshipping the corn, the entity behind the children uses the crow as his symbol, and it appears everywhere, both as real crows and as paintings in the church. Its also implied he can relay messages to Bobby through them.
* DistinguishingMark: Bobby has a very noteable birthmark on his jaw, its what lets the viewer identify him both as a child and as a teenager.

* KidsAreCruel: Unlike the original short story, the original children arent teenagers when they killed their parents, but mostly consisted of pre-adolescents.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Unlike the short story and later films, there is no obvious supernatural occurences shown on screen, possibly aside from Bobby's visions, and its entirerly possible the children are suffering from some sort of mass psychosis.
* OracularUrchin: Its implied several times that Bobby has psychic visions.

* ScaryScarecrows: Burt and Vickie doesnt notice this in time, but several of the scarecrows in the fields are made from human skeletons, presumably the bodies of the massacred adults.

* TeensAreMonsters: In present day, the kids are all in their late teens

A 1983 short film based on Creator/StephenKing's short story of the same name. Directed, written and edited by John Woodward, the film is only 20 minutes long, and is heavily abridged, but covers the majority of the original story's plot aside from the ending.

A 1983 short film based on StephenKing's short story of the same name. Directed, written and edited by John Woodward, the film is only 20 minutes long, and is heavily abridged, but covers the majority of the original story's plot aside from the ending.

* AmbigiousEnding: Unlike the short story, Burt and Vicky manages to successfully escape the town, but their car is heavily damaged, and Burt wonders aloud how a place like Jonah could go undetected for so long, unless it really is protected by a cruel and bloodthirsty God.

* CompressedAdaptation: The film is only 20 minutes long, and cuts a lot of plot, as well as changes the ending.
* CompositeCharacer: The leader of the children, Bobby, is a composite of Isaac and Malachai

* OrachularUrchin: Its implied several times that Bobby has psychic visions.