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* AdultsAreUseless: An entire towns worth of adults were overwhelmed by an army of children and teens. It's only speculated by Burt in the novel, but the beginning of the massacre is shown in the 1984 movie. Somewhat justified in that they had the supernatural backup of He Who Walks Behind The Rows, but he only personally dealt with Gatlin's police chief and minister.
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* AdultsAreUseless: An entire towns worth of adults were overwhelmed by an army of children and teens. It's only speculated by Burt in the novel, story, but the beginning of the massacre massacare is shown in the 1984 movie. Somewhat justified in that they had the supernatural backup of He Who Walks Behind The Rows, but he only personally dealt with Gatlin's police chief and minister.
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* AllianceWithAnAbomination: How it all started. The children, through Issac, became worshipers to He Who Walks Behind the Rows and killed all the adults.
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* AllianceWithAnAbomination: How it all started. The children, through Issac, Isaac, became worshipers to He Who Walks Behind the Rows and killed all the adults.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: In the book, Burt and Vicky do almost nothing but fight the entire time, and they were on the trip in the first place in the hopes of fixing their failing marriage.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: In the book, story, Burt and Vicky do almost nothing but fight the entire time, and they were on the trip in the first place in the hopes of fixing their failing marriage.
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* CreepyChild: In the novel, original movie, and remake, there's an entire town full of them. In most of the sequels, it starts out with one preaching the gospel of He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
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* CreepyChild: In the novel, story, original movie, and remake, there's an entire town full of them. In most of the sequels, it starts out with one preaching the gospel of He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
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* EvilLuddite: Gatlin mostly abandons technology after the cult taker over, though it's strangely inconsistent; in the 1984 movie, they use fuel for something, which is the reason the gas station owner was originally left alive, while in the novel, Burt and Vicky hear a religious sermon on their car radio heavily implied to be from Gatlin even though there's no one else around who could possibly hear it.
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* EvilLuddite: Gatlin mostly abandons technology after the cult taker over, though it's strangely inconsistent; in the 1984 movie, they use fuel for something, which is the reason the gas station owner was originally left alive, while in the novel, short story, Burt and Vicky hear a religious sermon on their car radio heavily implied to be from Gatlin even though there's no one else around who could possibly hear it.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler: He Who Walks Behind The Rows communicates to his worshippers through the dreams of a chosen prophet.]]
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Burt theorizes that this may have been the origin of the cult once he begins piecing together what happened in Gatlin, due to the extreme isolation of the town. [[spoiler: He's wrong, the source of the cult is supernatural.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: He Who Walks Behind The Rows demand the sacrifice of anyone that reaches 19. It was originally 20, but it was lowered 12 years ago during the cults formation as punishment for the original cult failing to catch Gatlin's police chief and minister, forcing He Who Walks Behind The Rows kill them himself. The age is lowered to 18 at the end of the story due to the same thing happening with Burt.]]
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* CreepyChild: Every film has at least one child coldly preaching some form of gospel sounding religion, with followers that quietly listen. All that's before they start massacring people.
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* CreepyChild: Every film has at least In the novel, original movie, and remake, there's an entire town full of them. In most of the sequels, it starts out with one child coldly preaching some form of the gospel sounding religion, with followers that quietly listen. All that's before they start massacring people.of He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
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* DownerEnding: The original short story had both Burt and Vicky sacrificed to He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
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* DownerEnding: The original short story had both Burt and Vicky sacrificed to He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Happens again in the remake, since it's a direct adaptation of the story.
* EvilLuddite: Gatlin mostly abandons technology after the cult taker over, though it's strangely inconsistent; in the 1984 movie, they use fuel for something, which is the reason the gas station owner was originally left alive, while in the novel, Burt and Vicky hear a religious sermon on their car radio heavily implied to be from Gatlin even though there's no one else around who could possibly hear it.
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* LostInTheMaize: The Quintessential Example.
* MamaBear: Sprinkled throughout the franchise, depending on the protagonist.
* MamaBear: Sprinkled throughout the franchise, depending on the protagonist.
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* LostInTheMaize: Gatlin is surrounded by seemingly endless cornfields, which serve as the domain of He Who Walks Behind The Quintessential Example.
* MamaBear: Sprinkled throughoutRows. Anyone who enters them anywhere near the franchise, depending on the protagonist.town effectively find themselves in an endless maze under His control.
* MamaBear: Sprinkled throughout
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* SelfMadeOrphan: In all versions of the story, it begins with Gatlin's children murdering their parents. It's implied the teenagers do most of the heavy work.
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* AllianceWithAnAbomination: How it all started. The children, through Issac, became worshipers to He Who Walks Behind the Rows and killed all the adults.
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* UltimateEvil: He Who Walks Behind The Rows. A later Stephen King book plays with the implication that his true identity is [[spoiler:Randall Flagg, Stephen King's meta-villain.]]
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* DownerEnding: The original short story.
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* ''[[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn2020 Children of the Corn]]'' (2020; new adaptation unrelated to other films)
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* CanonWelding: ''The Stand'' implies He Who Walks Behind The Rows is [[spoiler:Randall Flagg, a Stephen King villain from ''The Stand'' and the Dark Tower series]]. This is never mentioned in the short story or any of the adaptations.
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* CanonWelding: ''The Stand'' implies He Who Walks Behind The Rows is [[spoiler:Randall Flagg, a Stephen King villain from ''The Stand'' and the Dark Tower ''Dark Tower'' series]]. This is never mentioned in the short story or any of the adaptations.
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* AdultsAreUseless: And dead.
* AdultFear: Mentioned in the tag line of the first movie.
* AffablyEvil: Isaac, most likely in the original though.
* AdultFear: Mentioned in the tag line of the first movie.
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* CreepyChild: All of them!
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* CreepyChild: Every film has at least one child coldly preaching some form of gospel sounding religion, with followers that quietly listen. All of them!that's before they start massacring people.
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* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story and he's a really terrible example of this. He takes far too long to admit to himself that something is seriously wrong in the town of Gatlin... and even once he does, decides to linger just to make his wife, Vicky, — who realized much earlier and wanted to leave immediately — squirm. This results in both of them dying horrible and otherwise completely avoidable deaths.. [[spoiler:He and his wife dies.]] In the movies, he subverts this.
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* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story and he's a really terrible example of this. He takes far too long to admit to himself that something is seriously wrong in the town of Gatlin... and even once he does, decides to linger just to make his wife, Vicky, — who realized much earlier and wanted to leave immediately — squirm. This results in both of them dying horrible and otherwise completely avoidable deaths.. [[spoiler:He and his wife dies.]] deaths. In the movies, he subverts this.
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* AdultsAreUseless: And dead. So... [[JustifiedTrope justified?]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: And dead. So... [[JustifiedTrope justified?]]
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* DoNotCallMePaul: In the original short story, Burt finds the ledger in the Gatlin church. All of the older children are listed with a first/last name and another first name behind it, implying they all changed their birth names to Old Testament names. Newer children are given them from birth.
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* MeaningfulName: In the book, the first two children born to the cult are named Adam and Eve (ironically, Eve came first this time).
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* MeaningfulName: In the book, original short story, Burt finds the ledger in the Gatlin church. All of the older children are listed with a first/last name and another first name behind it, implying they all changed their birth names to Old Testament names. Newer children are given them from birth. The first two children born to the cult are named Adam and Eve (ironically, Eve came first this time).
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* TeenageWasteland: Self-inflicted.
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* TeenageWasteland: Self-inflicted.Self-inflicted, as[[spoiler: He-Walks-Behind-The-Rows demand sacrifices of any adult about 18.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story. [[spoiler:He dies.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story. story and he's a really terrible example of this. He takes far too long to admit to himself that something is seriously wrong in the town of Gatlin... and even once he does, decides to linger just to make his wife, Vicky, — who realized much earlier and wanted to leave immediately — squirm. This results in both of them dying horrible and otherwise completely avoidable deaths.. [[spoiler:He and his wife dies.]]]] In the movies, he subverts this.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: In the original short story, Burt finds the ledger in the Gatlin church. All of the older children are listed with a first/last name and another first name behind it. Implying they all changed their birth names to old testament names. Newer children are given them from birth.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: In the original short story, Burt finds the ledger in the Gatlin church. All of the older children are listed with a first/last name and another first name behind it. Implying it, implying they all changed their birth names to old testament Old Testament names. Newer children are given them from birth.
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''Children of the Corn'' started out with a 1984 horror film based upon the 1977 short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing. Set in the fictional rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film told the story of a demonic entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" which entices the children of the town to ritualistically murder all the adults to ensure a successful corn harvest.
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''Children of the Corn'' started out with a 1984 horror film based upon the 1977 short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing.Creator/StephenKing (collected in ''Literature/NightShift''). Set in the fictional rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film told the story of a demonic entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" which entices the children of the town to ritualistically murder all the adults to ensure a successful corn harvest.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: In the book, Burt and Vicky do almost nothing but fight the entire time, and they were on the trip in the first place in the hopes of fixing their failing marriage.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Print versions of the short story usually have covers based on the film, where the kids wore normal, if conservative clothes. In the actual short story, they're described as wearing clothes like Amish or Quakers.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the leaders of children and and their right hand men have Biblical names.
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* MeaningfulName: In the book, the first two children born to the cult are named Adam and Eve (ironically, Eve came first this time).
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the leaders of children and and their right hand men have Biblical names. In the book, ''all'' of them have these names, the older children having changed theirs after the massacre of the adults.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the leaders of children and and their right hand men have Biblical names. In the book, ''all'' of them have these names, the older children having changed theirs after the massacre of the adults.
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* UnexpectedlyAbandoned: The entire town of Gatlin is abandoned and left to gather dust, the sole exception being the church which has been meticulously cared for as the new place of worship for the cult.
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* SinisterScythe: A reappearing weapon in children's hands. Very justified by the setting.
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* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story. [[spoiler: He dies.]]
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* UltimateEvil: He Who Walks Behind The Rows. A later Stephen King book plays with the implication that his true identity is [[spoiler: Randall Flagg, Stephen King's meta-villain.]]
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* UltimateEvil: He Who Walks Behind The Rows. A later Stephen King book plays with the implication that his true identity is [[spoiler: Randall [[spoiler:Randall Flagg, Stephen King's meta-villain.]]
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* ''[[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn2009 Children of the Corn]]'' (2009), an adaptation by Creator/{{Syfy}}, unrelated to other films.
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* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornRunaway'' (2018)(2018; sequel to the Syfy adaptation)
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''Children of the Corn'' started out with a 1984 horror film based upon the 1977 short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing. Set in the fictional rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film told the story of a demonic entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" which entices the children of the town to ritualistically murder all the adults to ensure a successful corn harvest.
The film was harbinger for a many sequel to come.
The film series consists of:
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* ''Film/DisciplesOfTheCrow'' (1983) A short film based on the original story, and not a part of the rest of the series.
* ''[[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984 Children of the Corn]]'' (1984)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIITheFinalSacrifice'' (1993)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIIIUrbanHarvest'' (1995)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIVTheGathering'' (1996)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornVFieldsOfTerror'' (1998)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn666IsaacsReturn'' (1999)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornRevelation'' (2001)
* ''[[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn2009 Children of the Corn]]'' (2009), an adaptation by Creator/{{Syfy}}, unrelated to other films.
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornGenesis'' (2011)
* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornRunaway'' (2018)
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!!''Children of the Corn'' contains examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: And dead. So... [[JustifiedTrope justified?]]
* AdultFear: Mentioned in the tag line of the first movie.
* AffablyEvil: Isaac, most likely in the original though.
* AntagonistTitle: Referring to the corn-worshipping psycho cult of kiddos.
* BigBad: He Who Walks Behind the Rows is always the one influencing the various iterations of the cult.
* CanonWelding: ''The Stand'' implies He Who Walks Behind The Rows is [[spoiler:Randall Flagg, a Stephen King villain from ''The Stand'' and the Dark Tower series]]. This is never mentioned in the short story or any of the adaptations.
* CreepyChild: All of them!
* DarkMessiah: All but one films features a preaching kid/teen [[AChildShallLeadThem acting as a leader]] to the other children.
* DirectToDVD: Fourth film and onwards.
* DoNotCallMePaul: In the original short story, Burt finds the ledger in the Gatlin church. All of the older children are listed with a first/last name and another first name behind it. Implying they all changed their birth names to old testament names. Newer children are given them from birth.
* DownerEnding: The original short story.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: He Who Walks Behind The Rows, possibly. It's implied that this is actually Randall Flagg, who, throughout King's various works, shares more than a few traits with Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.]]
* GhostTown: Some of the movies are set in towns where most of the adults have been killed off, with the remaining adults living in fear of the children and keeping to their own.
* {{Gorn}}: ''Urban Harvest'' has several weird, gross deaths, while the remake has a number of excessively brutal ones.
* LostInTheMaize: The Quintessential Example.
* MamaBear: Sprinkled throughout the franchise, depending on the protagonist.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the leaders of children and and their right hand men have Biblical names.
* SinisterScythe: A reappearing weapon in children's hands.
* TeenageWasteland: Self-inflicted.
* TeensAreMonsters: The original group of "children" in the short story are actually in their teens when they kill the adults.
* TooDumbToLive: Burt in the original short story. [[spoiler: He dies.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Something wicked happened in Gatlin, and anybody over the age of 18 isn't alive to tell the tale.
* UltimateEvil: He Who Walks Behind The Rows. A later Stephen King book plays with the implication that his true identity is [[spoiler: Randall Flagg, Stephen King's meta-villain.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unknown what happened to Burt, Vicky, Job and Sarah after they escaped Gatlin in the original movie, albeit the second movie does briefly mention that a couple (Burt and Vicky) went to Hemingford (a town near Gatlin) and told about Gatlin and the cult.
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