Children of the Corn (2023) Movie Reviews

The Austin Chronicle

Wimmer has now twice disproved his ability to rehash old scripts through his terrible updatings of Total Recall and Point Break. Now he exhibits zero visual skill as writer/director of Children of the Corn, an unwatchable reboot of Stephen King's 1977 short story about a blood cult of rural Nebraskan kids who slaughter all adults to the monstrous He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2023-03-03/children-of-the-corn/

The Playlist

...if a filmmaker can’t be bothered to try, then audiences shouldn’t be asked to care.

https://theplaylist.net/children-of-the-corn-review-kurt-wimmers-remake-feels-like-a-knife-through-a-corn-cob-brain-20230303/

Consequence

There’s something particularly galling about the laziness of this one — its flimsy gestures toward topicality, the piecemeal nature of the whole thing — that makes its failures acutely horrifying.

https://consequence.net/2023/03/children-of-the-corn-2023-review/