It’s not impossible to make a good feature adaptation of a Stephen King short story, but history has demonstrated that it is damn difficult. For obvious reasons, the process requires a lot of creativity beyond what’s on the page, and that part of the equation has been the downfall of a number of projects as they fail to expand on what’s interesting and effective about the source material. The many, many awful swings taken at “Children Of The Corn” are a perfectly adequate case in point, but this legacy also includes terrible movies like Ralph Singleton’s Graveyard Shift and Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler. (Not to be excluded from this record is King’s own notorious directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive, based on the short story “Trucks.”)
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Directed By: Rob Savage
Written By: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods and Mark Heyman
Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina, Marin Ireland, David Dastmalchian, and LisaGay Hamilton.
Rating: PG-13 for terror, violent content, teen drug use and some strong language
Runtime: 98 minutes
