Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,462
edits
Children of the Corn: Difference between revisions
Undo revision 1958199 by DemonDuckofDoom (talk)
(Trivia) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (Undo revision 1958199 by DemonDuckofDoom (talk)) Tag: Undo |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
Line 16:
-------
{{tropelist}}
▲* [[Adults Are Useless]]: and dead.
** So... [[Justified Trope|justified?]]
*** They die by uselessness.
* [[All There in the Manual]]:
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: In the remake, <s>Joseph</s> Ahaz's blood coagulates within minutes, and he keeps crackling like his bones are breaking
* [[Bigger Bad]]: He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
* [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]: Remake. A sex ceremony in which two of the adolescent cult members conceive a child is spliced with shots of Burt stumbling through a field filled with dead bodies. His yowl of anguish merges with the woman's orgasm screams.
Line 30 ⟶ 29:
* [[Downer Ending]]: The original short story.
* [[The Dragon]]: Malachai acts as Isaac's Dragon, ready to kill and destroy at his behest.
**
* [[Dying as Yourself]]: Micah at the end of CotC2.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Would you believe the original story first appeared in ''[[Penthouse]]'' magazine?
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Malachai in the first film.▼
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the 2009 version, with corn husks.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: ''Revelation'' has a stripper as a character. At one point she gets naked and starts bathing and - Oh my God! The [[Attack of the Killer Whatever|evil corn]] is stabbing her to death!▼
▲* [[Evil Redhead]]: Malachai in the first film.
* [[Fan Service]]: The sex scene in the remake. It has nothing to do with anything else going on and takes place between two characters who aren't even named and are barely seen at any other time in the movie.
▲* [[Fan Disservice]]: ''Revelation'' has a stripper as a character. At one point she gets naked and starts bathing and - Oh my God! The [[Attack of the Killer Whatever|evil corn]] is stabbing her to death!
* [[Ghost Town]]
* [[Gorn]]: ''Urban Harvest'' has several weird, gross deaths, while the remake has a number of excessively brutal ones.
Line 46:
* [[Not as You Know Them]]: Malachai is far more loyal to Isaac in the remake than in the original. Burt is a Vietnam Vet in the remake and has frequent flashbacks. Vicky is black and a former anti-war activist. Isaac is also nine years old in the remake and is implied to be a new leader after the old one reached the "age of favor." Isaac is also harsher and more ruthless in the remake. For example, in the original he tolerates Job and Sarah's apostasy. Finally {{spoiler|Job and Sarah are merged into one character, who is killed by Burt while in a flashback. Joseph is implied to be the son of the original leader, he has his tie in his suitcase. In the original no such relation is suggested.}}
* [[Numbered Sequels]]
* [[Pet The Dog]]: When Malachai catches Job and Sarah playing Monopoly and listening to music as well as Sarah's drawings he drags them to Isaac for an expected punishment. However instead, Isaac, who realizes that Sarah's drawings predict the future, not only commends Sarah for her gift; but also tells Malachai to send them back to the house unharmed. [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|This becomes one of the things, that causes Malachai to doubt Isaac as a leader. ]]
{{quote|'''Isaac:''' You have the Gift of Sight. This is a blessing, my child.}}
* [[Sinister Scythe]]
* [[Teenage Wasteland]]: Self-inflicted.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: The original group of "children" in the short story are actually in their teens when they kill the adults.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Burt in the original short story.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]
* [[Ultimate Evil]]: He Who Walks Behind The Rows. In the original short story, the implication is that his true identity is
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: It's
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Horror Films]]
[[Category:Works
[[Category:Films of the 2010s]]
[[Category:Film Series]]
Line 62 ⟶ 64:
[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:
[[Category:Children of the Corn]]
[[Category:Films Based on Short Stories]]
[[Category:Film]]
| |||