HOOP-X #60 (Bonus Kill #10) of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over

My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.

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Film #103 of my 2023 - Clearing Out My DVD Case Initiative.

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Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name, this horror classic spawned more sequels than any of King's other movies.

This one is a combo of the Folk Horror sub-genre and the Evil Kids sub-genre of horror. Both are firmly in play here as well.

Yeah, a lot of the "kid-acting" is bad, but you do have Linda-Fucking-Hamilton bad-assing her way through this. And there's the star of the old show "ThirtySomething": Peter Horton who looks constantly high as a fucking kite and is more like SixtySomething now.

They both work really well together as a couple getting lost in the cornfields of Nebraska and stumbling on a death cult of kids who have killed all the adults around them and even sacrifice their own teen members turning 18 to He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

There's talk of this mysterious beast as well as "The Blue Man" and such, but neither of those things are delved into very much. Most of the scariness comes from the power struggle between the creepy amish boy minister Isaac and his redheaded knife-carrying punk of a kid Malachai, as they command all the kids to become little homicidal maniacs.

It's highly entertaining 80's horror and makes me want to revisit the Stephen King short story yet again (I had reread that story about 5 years ago, but it's time to give it another read).