Children of the Corn is an 2009 American supernatural slasher film directed and written by Donald P. Borchers. It is based on the 1977 short story of the same name by Stephen King, the eighth installment of the film series, and a remake of the 1984 film. It was released on September 26, 2009, on the cable television channel Syfy. Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film centers on traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who worship an entity known as He Who Walks Behind the Rows, which had years earlier manipulated the children into killing every adult in town.

Plot

In 1963, the town of Gatlin, Nebraska, suffers a severe drought. In a tent, a boy preacher claims that a god, whom he calls "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" has spoken to him in his dreams. He tells the other children.