nearly everything that stephen king have ever write seem to have be turn into a film or tv series while in fact and i be surprise that no one have try to make a mini series from the guy grocery list . let face it and if they do and it couldn not be any less interesting than child of the corn . base on one of king many short story and this 1984 horror flick see linda hamilton and peter horton play a couple on a long car journey who run into a spot of bother when they chance upon the sleepy nebraska town of gatlin and where all of the adult have be murder by child who worship an ancient evil that lurk in the corn field . although director fritz kiersch do manage to build a fair amount of atmosphere at the beginning ( after hamilton silly song and dance and but before we get to meet the freakish isaac and leader of the killer kid ) and he completely blow it with endless unexciting scene in which hamilton and horton be hunt down by the town homicidal half pint . courtney gain and a violent redhead malachai and manages to appear genuinely menacing and but the rest of the child be not the least bit threaten while a a result and many of the film cary moment fail to work . towards the end of the film and when we finally get to see the malevolent force that inhabit the field surround gatlin and the film descend into a glut of terrible 80 visual effect that probably look pretty ropey almost 25 year ago and but look positively laughable nowadays . child of the corn might be of interest to king fan keen to see how the writer work have be translate to the big screen and but your average horror film fan will be most unimpressed .