![]() The latest in a long line of resourceful final girls, she embodies the optimistic innocence of adolescence while maintaining the rationality of the town’s adults. Played by Elena Kampouris, Bo is a teenager heading to college. The religious aspects of King’s story have been removed, and our hero, Boleyn, is neither a child nor an adult. Not only does it take place in a new town, Rylstone rather than the doomed Gatlin, the story has been updated for a modern audience to include economic themes and warnings about climate change. Aside from the name, Wimmer’s screenplay bears little resemblance to King’s original tale. The newest entry into this long-running franchise is Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn, a reimagining of the story with a new town of adults to be slaughtered. ![]() Night Shift also contains the source material for King classics such as The Mangler, Sometimes They Come Back, Maximum Overdrive, and the upcoming The Boogeyman, but none of the collection’s other 19 stories have had the staying power of “Children of the Corn.” Perhaps due to its evocative title implying barbaric pagan rituals or the eerie juxtaposition between childlike innocence and brutal murder, the original film has spawned eight sequels and two remakes over the course of four decades. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short story collection Night Shift and subsequently adapted into a 1984 feature film directed by Fritz Kiersch. Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years.
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