That’s the central focus of this week’s Adapting Stephen King column.
The short story was originally a magazine submission, published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse – but it was following its inclusion in 1978’s Night Shift that most people had the chance to experience its terror.
According to George Beahm’s The Stephen King Companion, all but one of the tales included in that book have been optioned for film adaptations, but it was the one about a strange little town in Nebraska that made it to the big screen first.
Fritz Kiersch’s Children Of The Corn has developed a cult following since it first hit theaters in March 1984, famously inspiring a great number of sequels, but how does it hold up when examined through the lens of the original short story and the legacy of King on the big screen?