"Children will leave their homes tonight where we will purge the old,
clean the earth and purify the harvest"
The film opens with a camera pan past the Gatlin sign and through the corn fields to an isolated caravan...where brothers Joshua, Ely and their drunken father live. One night the father chases the older brother, Joshua, through the corn field....but Ely has other plans...and their father ends up dead.....but the two boys end up in a Chicago foster home. There is however something sinister going on with Ely...and it has something to do with 'he who walks behind the rows.'
There new foster father seems to be some corn salesman/contractor, and the house is conveniently situated next to an old corn repository. Ely, whose suitcase is filled with corn heads, decides to plant rows and rows of the stuff in the desolated building..and yes we then have a field of corn in Chicago, miraculously fully grown within three weeks. Meanwhile the two once inseparable brothers seem to grow apart...with Joshua enjoying a more conventional education by making friends and having a relationship – whereas Ely seems to want to be on his own...taking the time to target his foster mother and head teacher to psychological nightmares and eventually death.
Things improve for Ely when his foster father takes an interest in his corn yield and believes it can be sold worldwide...and furthermore he begins to develop a following himself after preaching his belief that adults need to be exterminated. In no time at all of the children have fallen under his spell, and when his bewildered brother begins to question what happened to his father he ends up back in Gatlin...discovering the fate of his father and Ely's on achiles heel, his bible which he buried before he left. Joshua heads back to confront his evil brother, save his girlfriend and the adults of Chicago...and once and for all destroy he who walks behind the corn...who finally makes an appearance as more than just a moving object under the soil!!!!
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| Directed by | James D.R. Hickox |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Brad
Southwick Gary DePew |
| Written by | Stephen King (short
story) Dode B. Levenson |
| Starring | Daniel Cerny Ron Melendez Jim Metzler Nancy Grahn |
| Music by | Daniel Licht |
| Cinematography | Gerry Lively |
| Editing by | Chris Peppe |
| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
| Release date(s) | September 12, 1995 (USA) |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Language | English |