During the early parts of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year came word that a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic short story “Children of the Corn” was in the works, one that was able to shoot at a time when no-one else in the world was able to get a production underway.
Shot in rural areas several hours outside of Dark Horizons’ homebase in Sydney, Australia, the project utilised entirely local cast and crew in outdoor locations and as an independent production it wasn’t subject to shutdown rules and regulations which hit other projects filming in the same city at that time such as Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”.
Today though, Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that the film has not only been completed but has already been released. Specifically the film was snuck out onto just two screens this past weekend – CMX CineBistro and Burns Court Cinema. Both cinemas are located in Sarasota, Flordia.
“Equilibrium” helmer Kurt Wimmer directed this new take which gender swaps the lead role of Isaac and follows a psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska who recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won’t go along with the plan, is the town’s only hope of survival.
That sounds more like a loose prequel to both the 1977 book and 1984 film about a couple who encounter the kids only town and the God they worship who lives in the corn. That original film yielded seven sequels and two prequels.