Children Of The Corn He Who Walks Behind The Rows Explained

Children Of The Corn: He Who Walks Behind The Rows Explained

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Stephen King’s Children of the Corn story and its movie adaptations feature the villain He Who Walks Behind the Rows, a deity with a devoted cult.

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Children Of The Corn He Who Walks Behind The Rows Explained

Stephen King’s Children of the Corn story and its movie adaptations feature the villain He Who Walks Behind the Rows, a deity with a devoted cult. Children of the Corn is a 10-movie franchise, a fact that’s honestly kind of puzzling. Just about every entry into the series is bad, but for whatever reason, they just keep arriving every few years. Clearly, someone is watching them, and the series has a following of devoted fans, despite how boring a franchise it appears to be on the surface.

Now, that’s not to say that there’s no good to be had. The original 1984 Children of the Corn film is a minor classic, featuring a great score, good casting, and some creepy scenes. 1995 sequel Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest is also a silly but fun time with a charismatic villain and an awesome monster massacre. The Children of the Corn movies also sport an interesting big bad in He Who Walks Behind the Rows, albeit one that’s rarely depicted in a visual way.

He Who Walks Behind the Rows is primarily content to let his worshipers do his dirty work, and instills in his congregation a fervent belief that with adulthood comes corruption. Is he right? It doesn’t really matter when he’s got a cult of murderous corn kids on his side.

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He Who Walks Behind The Rows Origin & Powers Explained

As with many deities, it’s not entirely clear how or by who He Who Walks Behind the Rows was created. According to Stephen King’s short story, his influence was first felt in 1964, the year when He Who Walks Behind the Rows’ cult of kids formed and massacred Gatlin, Nebraska’s adults. Notably, the film version updates this to 1980, just a few years before the rest of the story is set. Originally, the rule was that anyone who reached the age of 19 had to be sacrificed to He Who Walks Behind the Rows, but over the course of King’s prose, evil child preacher Isaac announces that it’s been lowered to 18.

The extent of He Who Walks Behind the Rows powers and abilities aren’t entirely clear, but they seem to be basically limitless, provided one is within the area he controls. He Who Walks can control any aspect of the corn fields surrounding Gatlin that it calls home, and use them to kill people. He also exerts a strong mental influence over his congregation, with most blindly obeying his orders, and he can also possess them directly. The deity is also shown to be able to resurrect the dead for his own use, and take various forms, such as sinister clouds in the first Children of the Corn film, and a pretty cool (albeit somewhat silly looking) Lovecraftian tentacle monster in Children of the Corn 3, pictured above.

He Who Walks Behind the Rows’ evil is also not limited to Gatlin, as seen over the course of the film series. His followers can uproot and re-plant his corrupted corn just about anywhere, and with it the dark god’s influence spreads. It’s unclear if He Who Walks Behind the Rows can actually be killed, as it looks to be vanquished at the end of just about every Children of the Corn movie, yet always manages to return for the next one. A popular fan theory suggests that He Who Walks Behind the Rows is just another guise of The Stand villain Randall Flagg, but that’s so far unconfirmed.

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