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Released
1984 · FILM

Children of the Corn

A stranded couple fights to escape a remote Nebraska town where a fanatical cult of children, driven by a malevolent cornfield deity, hunts them down.

“And a child shall lead them...”

Directed by
Fritz Kiersch
Written by
Stephen King, George Goldsmith
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
92 min
HorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A traveling couple finds themselves stranded in an abandoned town in Nebraska, which is occupied by a cult of children who worship a demon residing in the surrounding cornfields and engage in acts of murder.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Harry KeramidasShot by Joao FernandesScored by Jonathan Elias

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 18× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$14.6M

Budget$800K
Worldwide gross$14.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.0M — 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.6M — 18% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 350 theaters

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Also known as

  • Kinder des Zornsde
  • Los chicos del maízes
  • Los niños del maízes
  • Les Démons du maïsfr
  • Grano rosso sangueit

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