Development Based on the
short story by
Stephen King, the first
Children of the Corn film follows a couple who are besieged by mysterious children in a small town called Gatlin, Nebraska.
Its first sequel begins immediately after the events of the original, and focuses on a reporter and his son who are investigating the events of the first film. Beginning with the third installment, Dimension elected to produce standalone films that were not necessarily narratively connected. The third film follows two brothers from Gatlin who are forced into foster care in
Chicago; the younger brother, under the influence of
He Who Walks Behind the Rows, begins to grow corn in an abandoned lot behind his new family home, wreaking havoc. The fourth film returns to a rural Nebraska town where a young medical student attempts to uncover a mysterious illness striking the children of her hometown; the fifth film follows a group of young people who encounter the children, led by a man, Ezekiel, of He Who Walks Behind the Rows, when staying overnight in an abandoned farmhouse. Part six follows a woman, born of the cult from the first film, who returns to Gatlin to uncover the identity of her birth mother, while the seventh installment focuses on a woman who travels to a small town outside
Omaha to investigate the disappearance of her grandmother; there, she encounters bizarre children in the fields surrounding her grandmother's apartment building. The 2009 remake follows the general plot of the first film, focusing on a couple who encounter the children in Gatlin. The ninth film,
Genesis, follows a couple who lodge with a mysterious preacher in the California desert, who appears to be leading a bizarre cult. ==Releases==