Children of the Corn (Film Series)

Children of the Corn

Rated: 18

The film is set in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, an agricultural community surrounded by huge cornfields. When the corn crop fails one year, the townsfolk turn to prayer to ensure a successful harvest. However, 9-year-old Isaac Chroner takes all of the children in Gatlin into the cornfields and indoctrinates them into a religious cult based around a bloodthirsty deity called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows".

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Rated: 18

The plot involves the dark goings-on in Hemingford, Nebraska, a town near Gatlin, the original film's setting. Two days after the events of the first film, the people of Hemingford decide to adopt the surviving children from Gatlin and help them start new lives. The well-meaning locals are unaware that the children return to the cornfield where one of the cult members, Micah, is possessed by He Who Walks Behind the Rows, the demonic entity the cult worships.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

Rated: 18

Eli and Joshua are being taken into foster care with William and Amanda Porter of Chicago after the death of their father, who was killed by Eli. The two boys do not mix well with a home in modern Chicago; their formal, Amish-like clothes from Gatlin, Eli's fire-and-brimstone prayer at dinner, and them bringing a suitcase full of corn to Chicago strike their new parents and neighbors as unusual.

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

Rated: 18

Medical student Grace Rhodes (Naomi Watts) returns to her hometown of Grand Island, Nebraska to take care of her agoraphobic mother June (Karen Black), who refuses to leave her yard. She is having recurring nightmares of being attacked by children. Grace must also look after her younger siblings, James and Margaret.

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror

Rated: 18

A group of teenagers become lost in middle America and arrive in Divinity Falls, where forgotten children have taken on the duty of serving "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". The teenagers have less than a week to get out of the town. However, they find that their car is destroyed, and the children are held accountable.

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return

Rated: 18

Hannah, born in the original Gatlin, Nebraska cult led by nefarious prophet Isaac, visits the town to find her birth mother. After having a mysterious encounter with a street preacher, Zachariah, Hannah crashes her car in a cornfield. She is escorted to the hospital by the sheriff, Cora, where she is examined by Dr. Michaels. There, Hannah finds that Isaac—long thought dead—has actually been hospitalized in a coma for years.

Children of the Corn (2009)

Rated: 18

In 1963, the town of Gatlin, Nebraska, suffers a severe drought. In a tent, a boy preacher claims that an Old Testament-era Canaanite god, whom he calls "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" has spoken to him in his dreams. He tells the other children that the sinful adults are the reason for the drought, prompting them to kill everybody over nineteen in town. They then establish a death cult with the prime rule that one must be sacrificed to the cult's god upon reaching the age of nineteen.

Children of the Corn: Genesis

Rated: 18

Tim and Allie's car breaks down and they attempt to find shelter in a remote desert farmhouse after becoming lost. A strange Charles Manson-like character, Preacher (Billy Drago), allows them inside to use the phone. The couple find out they won't be able to get tow service until the following day. Preacher and his Ukrainian wife Oksana (also known as Helen) let them stay the night with strict orders to be gone by morning, and not wander "where you are not invited".

Children of the Corn: Runaway

Rated: 18

The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child.

Children of the Corn (2023)

Rated: 18

The film is set in Rylstone, a small farming community whose principal crop, corn, is failing despite attempts to fix things with GMOs and herbicides. The adults agree to destroy their crops so they can receive a crop subsidy from the government, infuriating Eden, an orphan being raised by the town preacher. One of the local teenagers, Bo, schemes with her friends to hold a mock trial that night where they will hold the adults accountable.