Children of the Corn, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom 

Eva Kara Don't worry I did the same thing lol

Eva Kara At least you scrolled down to look.

I didn't even see the other comments I was so ready to be a smartass

Same XD

+1

Cometstarlight He is also cousin Itt in the Addams family ^^ He only suffers from a growth hormone deficiency as well, so not a syndrome, he is quite short due to it though.

I actually found out about this through Nostalgia Critic

Sophia Foster Same.

PKMNTrainerLilly I never heard of that and I grew up not far from what the movie was filmed. Cool.

I grew up in Maryland, near the woods where Blair Witch was filmed. Tourism in the tiny town of Buckettsville exploded, so locals started stacking rocks and leaving those creepy Blair Witch dolls in the forest to scare them off, lol. The real cryptids are locals.

That is awesome 😄

​@@pkmntrainerlilly5 I don't blame them. I wouldn't be happy with a bunch of dumbasses comming to my town looking for an imaginary witch because of some movie.

@@pkmntrainerlilly5 "The real cryptids are locals." More or less the message of Children of the Corn.

Really? Is there some point to that or was it just a pointless connection. Sounds kinda lame to me but i guess i can just ignore that when reading the story.

I don't think there's a point. King just likes to connect his novels with little references and stuff like that.

I guess the point is that a lot of King's books are connected. I haven't read much but from what I've read it seems like he wants to make this universe while not being too obvious about it so both first time readers and fans can appreciate his books. But maybe I'm just readong a bit too much into this.

Did someone say Stephen King Connected Universe? Ka is a wheel.

Antti Saavalainen most of King's novels have slight connection, most lead back to the Dark Tower series. It's most evident in The Stand and It, the latter of those two also has connections to Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher.

When visiting my great-grandmother's farmhouse near the cornfields, my brother and I weren't allowed to go into the corn, especially when it got tall for fear that we would get lost (like my grandmother's cat did once. Kitty was kept on a long leash when she went outside after that). To make sure we didn't, my mother told us awful things would happen if the pollen got in our hair. We stayed out of the cornfield.

corn fields are irresistable ^^

And so few have gotten it right. Four right off the top of my head that did get the stories fairly (depending on your interpretation of such) right: Carrie (1976), Shawshank Redemption, Misery & The Green Mile. Those had directors that really dove into what makes their characters so compelling even with their changes sprinkled in

yeah, that and his style relies just like lovecraft on you filling the gaps with what would scare you most, this typs of horror translate terribly cause there i no way to personalise a movie mosters look or translate the inner life of a character like that on screen

Yep, same thing with Lovecraft. How do you visually depict something so indescribably terrifying it can literally drive a person insane?

Or like me and others, you watched the Nostalgia Critic do Children of the Corn first.

Well, that too:) I thought: "Wait, I find it's highly unlikely that the Dom did not see Critic's review of the movie. He is messing with us, right?"

Personally I’ve never understood why anyone would comment before watching the rest of the video. Just makes more sense to wait you know?

+Willliam Leonard Reese Jr. For people watching a video on release and want their comment to be seen (for being informative, let's hope) by accumulating likes, it's imperative that it's written as soon as possible.

I was just about to comment on it, but I scrolled down to see if anybody else had already done it, and spotted your comment.

wooden coyote I’m honestly now just imagining they sent agents down there to investigate and basically ends with the Army being sent. The thought alone of a bunch of little kids no older then 16 taking down the US army (and talking tanks and all) is sending me into s laughing fit.

@@TheJthedog 😂😂😂

And, that's something I hadn't considered.

He was a teacher for, I’m assuming high schoolers? Must have been an interesting experience having a teacher that looked like your little brother.

he was also Cousin Itt

MrKlausbaudelaire but all you have to do when driving is hold the steering wheel straight.

Randy Your hands would go left and right with no point of reference.

Randy Not so much, when you drive you are constantly making small microcorrections based on visual input. Without that you'd have no way of knowing you had drifted to one side or the other and would fail to travel straight.

also, what's to say the corn god wasn't stopping them? they were driving on a road through corn, and luring in more sacrifices is always a thing.

And, one year later, all the idiots doing the Bird Box challenge while driving prove this statement true.

I had to take a detour in Illinois while driving from Wisconsin. Miles and miles and miles of flat land, houses far apart -- nobody's popping off for a bit of impulse shopping when it takes an hour to get into town.

well, the movie never really threw in a trying-to-be scary scene in the cornfield, everything that tried to scare you was outside the field.

Yeah, but it still feels weird that he didn't just say it for the joke, THE MOVIE'S ABOUT CORN! Plus I think there are one or two scenes that could be used.

If you've every tried to run through a field of corn you'd know that IT IS SCARY!

There weren't any hedges.

No, popcorn, balloons, and trucks aren't supposed to be scary. Well, unless you're one of the people who has an odd phobia.

“Maybe the beast is just us”

Same thing with It in my opinion. It was scarier before you found out it was some kind of spider alien.

@Embelm12 I agree in this case; usually the mystery is scarier for me, but somehow with Children of the Corn the idea of He Who Walks Behind the Rows being legitimately real was much more terrifying.

Then you must hate the book too because as Dom pointed out, he was real and made an appearance in book when he killed the main guy. He's even been confirmed by King to be "Randall Flagg" a recurring supernatural antagonist in his books...

@@kaylawoodbury2308 I just find pluasible, everyday, real-life horror to be more scary. It has nothing to do with the book or adaptation, just personal perception of what terror/horror is. I also just prefer man v man, man v self, and man v society fiction over man v environment or man v god(s)/supernatural unless the latter is super well done or super cheesy. It's just preference and a part of the horror for me is the extistential dread of not knowing why all those children murdered so many ppl

The nearest town to me is 65 miles. That’s more than a couple of dozen. And Glasgow Montana is about 240 miles from the next town. I love when people act smug and they have no idea what they are talking about

That was me too.

Once he tells you, you can see it. Before then, he looked like a precocious kid.

he also played Cousin Itt a few years later

SalfordianBlue from what I've seen, he has more of a problem with people using religion as an excuse to hurt others and to just be hateful, which I also have a problem with although I am Christian

That is the very reason I typically stay away from churches nowadays. I'm Christian, but I have no denomination, I'm just a Christian who makes mistakes and tries to keep an open mind and has non-Christian friends.😶

Ehhh... King can say that, but he consistently portrays Christians as assholes and even if you want to say that he's only targeting "those Christians" it's still an uncomfortable fact that "those Christians" are a big part of the faith and the organized church is as well. Obviously it's not black and white but if your impression of most Christians is so bad that you have to separate yourself from them even while professing to be one I think its fair to say you have some hang-ups about the faith.

I don´t know how anyone could be a Christian these days. Don´t get me wrong, I understand why some people need faith in their lives, and christianity is as much of a valid choice as any other religion, but... Its just that we know how christianity started, and got twisted through the years. We know that the modern idea of "christianity" was manufactured by King James in the middle ages. We know that Jesus was actually a Jew, who only preached for other Jews... And he was the main disciple of John the Baptist, the one meant to replace him as the leader of his church after his death, not an independent prophet with his own version of "God" and the church. I don´t know how you can ignore all those historic facts, and believe that historic Jesus would be happy if he came back, and saw millions of people calling themselves "christians", using completly different religious ideas and symbols, and sometimes even killing jews (his own people) in his name.

@@gabrielp9646 Ell your entitled to your opinion but do you really have to go seeking out every mention of Christianity trying to bait people into a debating religion under random youtube comments. This discussion was about King's opinion on the church, not a broader discussion of Christian doctrine, and not every discussion that even mentions religion needs to turn into a debate about the existence of God.

You finally got your wish and then some!

Karnork Zartorx hope you have a happy birthday tomorrow

I've been sick too this Halloween but I'm really sorry that you had to have it near your birthday. Happy Birthday, man. Hope you feel better soon!

Karnork Zartorx HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

You need to watch the original film it's so much better than the remakes

@@delfin7461 - It's closer to the book, for sure.

Alex Watson oddly though keeping the book ending would have made sequel easy to make as the society would still be active

If they wanted a franchise, wouldn't it make more sense keeping the original ending, so there could be more survivors visiting the town?

If it was new survivors in every movie, wouldn't it start to get repetitive? They'd come to the town discover the cult, get attacked by the children, discover "he who walks behind the rows" and die, rinse and repeat, I feel like that would get boring after a while.

Yeah it was.

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Leila Byerly Well, having read the books and watched the TV series and films, if the Dom were to do those the what they didn't change section would be two seconds and the changes would take 2 hours each.

Noelle Meier True. It would be an 'In name only' in my opinion.

besides, the only critiscism Dom can give to the movie is: "this movie is bloody awesome, go see it".

MrKlausbaudelaire I agree, it is a pretty great movie. It just isn't much of an adaptation.

I imagine people who read the books first sill enjoy the movies. Can't say the same for Percy Jackson.

Hemmingford is so small and insignificant that it's not even in its own county and has a population of... maybe 800 right now? It's so small that the clinic there is surrounded by nothingness, it's around 1/4 of a square mile in a small village. It's fairly pretty, I always liked it, but it has *nothing*. Western Nebraska? Empty. Fading away. A sinkhole. The only thing keeping me here is fear. Being in such a small quiet place leaves you afraid, especially when everyone you know is there, in that one little sinkhole. If I leave, and I've had offers to take up a maid job as far away as Virginia, I'd be hedging my bets that I'd find something special there otherwise you end up empty, alone, and miserable. It's the weird dichotomy of places as small and worthless as the old army base that Gatlin's IRL equivalent sits on. So bad you know you're in a sinkhole, but so isolated you struggle to adjust to anything else. They're tiny, and slowly imploding, no major shops, just grocery stores, no arcades anymore, no leisure other than the old haunted theatre some poor girl was crushed in. The population increases but the town atrophies. Hemingford is different in that it's so small and insignificant that it doesn't need to have anything beyond the minimum required to survive. Even with murderous children, you'd still be better off in Gatlin because Hemingford has... uh, dirt, a grocery store, a clinic, and a bunch of old people and tractors I guess.