20 Horror Movie Characters We NEVER See

8. He Who Walks Behind The Rows - Children of the Corn (1984)

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Sometimes it's so tricky to do full justice to an entity described on the written page that it's better to just not bother at all - and that was quite sensibly the case with the 1984 adaptation of Stephen King's short story Children of the Corn.

The focal religious cult worships a bloodthirsty deity known as He Who Walks Behind the Rows, but the creature is never once shown, its presence instead being implied through shadows, movement amid the cornfields, and so on.

Considering the film's mere $3 million budget, it was certainly a smart choice, and one that's been absolutely vindicated by the franchise's later attempts to show He Who Walks Behind the Rows on screen.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest misguidedly depicted it as a comical worm-like creature, and 2020's risible remake envisioned it as a low-fi CGI monster that's perhaps best described as what you get when you order Groot from Wish.

Given that Children of the Corn revolves around a cult of murderous children, that should be plenty to sustain the audience's interest - let He Who Walks stay out of sight.

 
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