Children of the Corn Collection

The Children of the Corn Collection is a nine-film series originating from a 1984 adaptation of a Stephen King short story. The collection is set in the fictional rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, and centers on a malevolent entity known as "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." This entity influences the town's children to commit ritualistic murders of the adult population. Following the initial film, the subsequent installments were released directly to video and largely lack narrative continuity, beginning with Children of the Corn III in 1995 and concluding with Runaway in 2018. Spanning from 1984 to 2018, the collection comprises nine films with a total runtime of 769 minutes and a total budget of $7,850,000, generating $21,549,975 in revenue. The films have an aggregate IMDb rating of 4.1. The series' releases were primarily through New World Pictures initially, later acquired by Dimension Films for the direct-to-video portion of the franchise. The collection includes titles such as Children of the Corn (1984), which has a runtime of 92 minutes and generated $14,568,989 in revenue, and Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992), with a runtime of 92 minutes and revenue of $6,980,986. The later films, from Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) through Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018), have reported revenue of NULL.