Turning a 10,000-word Stephen King short story into 11 films requires, let’s say, creativity.
, studios big and small wanted to get in on the trend of adapting works by this hot young author named Stephen King. And New World Pictures, the B-movie studio founded by Roger Corman, was never one to miss out on a trend. That’s howChildren of the Corn
is not Linda Hamilton’s best. Not because she’s doing anything wrong, per se, but because it has none of the badass attitude that makes Hamilton so compelling in, released that same year. Her co-star, Peter Horton, meanwhile, is in contention for the title of Wrongest, Most Confident White Man of all time. There’s nothing particularly exciting about the workmanlike filmmaking here.
Isaac is memorably portrayed here by John Franklin, a diminutive actor who also played Cousin Itt in the ’90smovies. Franklin was 25 when he got the part of the fanatical preteen preacher; that’s perfect for the character, who has the speech and mannerisms of someone far older. His seething temper tantrums are unsettling, too, thanks to that same combination of adult and childlike characteristics.
Take the one where a gang of threatening Amish children bully an elderly woman in a wheelchair out into the middle of a small-town main street, where she’s immediately run down by an 18-wheeler and goes flying through the plate-glass window of a bingo hall. Stephen King had nothing to do with writing that scenario. But if someone told you he had, back in his cocaine days, you’d believe it, right? That right there is taking an adaptation and making it your own.
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