'Children of the Corn' (1984) Fritz Kiersch.

Along with Kubrick's glisteringly good 'The Shining', 'Children of the Corn' is one of the first Stephen King film adaptations I can still readily recall screaming on VHS back in the gleefully gory haze of the analogue video daze! This doomily desolated teeth-grindingly grisly thriller about a young, shiny happy couple terminally Twilight-Zoned into the ghastly Ghost town of Gatlin, Nebraska, and witnessing poor beleaguered Peter Horton and future saviour of the entire human race Linda Hamilton desperately trying to escape the diminutive despotism of baby-faced false prophet Isaac, and his increasingly malign, machete-weilding, snaggle-toothed enforcer Malachai was a uniquely terrifying experience!!! The murderous machinations of these half-pint, hate-spewing, parent slaying, corn-fed cultists made quite the deep impression on my only moderately more infantile teenaged mind, and now seen through 'adult' eyes, this tightrope-tense, surprisingly brutal 80s horror harvest has lost very little of its skin-crawlingly creepy charm, since director Fritz Kiersch's blood-soaked field of screams still offers up a calamitous cornucopia of gruesome, scythe slashing nastiness from these Satanically tripped-out terror tykes!