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The Effects of Children of the Corn

One of the first horror movies I ever saw was one among the many of the Children of the Corn series . It is a story that involves children of Gatlin , Nebraska who appeared to have been possessed by the demonic One Who Walks Behind the Rows ' and have been on a murderous rampage by killing all adults in their town , notwithstanding a well-meaning couple who merely wanted to report the murder of a boy by the cultish children themselves

The children are involved in a

murderous cult , in which they , the disciples of the One Who Walks Behind the Corn Rows ' are instructed by their demon-god through a child-prophet to kill everyone above the age of nineteen in the town , as a sacrifice to the gods . This is done in the most gruesome of ways , such as crucifying a police officer displaying his corpse for all to see , grounding old people using meat grinders , slitting throats of their parents , among many other disgusting , yet terror-inducing ways of killing

King is correct when he stated that the utility of horror movies would be to feed the hungry monsters in our psyche - a theatrical projection of all our forcibly forgotten fears , anxieties , disaster-scenarios memories , among many other situations which we hope we would never find ourselves in , despite the seeming impossibility of such circumstances from ever occurring

As a formulaic horror film in the tradition of Child 's Play , Children of the Corn plays into...