10 Stephen King Adaptations The Author HATES

In terms of sheer output, Children Of The Corn is the most successful Stephen King brand of them all: a single 1970s short story spun into ten movies over thirty-five years.

The original 1984 film was not particularly popular with critics at the time, but over time has become increasingly well-liked for its narrow focus and taut, tense atmosphere.

It especially started to look pretty great once the franchise started churning out sequels with increasingly little connection either to King's original concept or anything resembling actual shocks and scares.

King himself seems to share the typical consensus on the long-running series his writing has inspired, telling Deadline: "I could do without all of the Children Of The Corn sequels", but adding that "I actually like the original pretty well. I thought they did a pretty good job on that."

Unfortunately for his creator, though, He Who Walks Behind The Rows remains virtually unkillable. This is, after all, a franchise that made five direct sequels to a movie titled "The Final Sacrifice".

A remake from Equilibrium director Kurt Wimmer continued to shoot in Australia this spring, undeterred by the country's Coronavirus lockdown rules. So expect to see even more Children Of The Corn soon, whether King can do without them or not.