The film is set in Rylstone, a small farming community whose principal crop, corn, is failing despite attempts to fix things with GMOs and herbicides.

The website's consensus reads: "Bereft of a single kernel of fear or excitement, this Children of the Corn suggests the franchise is irrevocably lost in a maize of sub-mediocrity.

"[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 22 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[14] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "Like a virus that keeps coming back but growing weaker each time, Children of the Corn is now a horror movie that lacks the strength to infect you with even a speck of fear.

"[15] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting gave the film a score of 1/5, writing, "Expectations might be low at this stage of the franchise, but nothing about Children of the Corn works.

Motivations are confusing at best, and Wimmer never manages to set-up who these characters are, let alone establish any rules or worldbuilding that would explain why they behave so erratically...

"[16] Polygon's Katie Rife wrote, "If Children of the Corn were just an empty-headed hybrid of a creature feature and a killer-kids movie, it might have been kind of fun.