Stephen King's The Children Of The Corn (2004) read by Bradley Lavelle
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2023
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A three-part reading from the early days of BBC7, of a classic Stephen King short story, well-known for its film adaptation...
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The voice actor for the English dub of Gothic 2. Thousands of people grew up with this voice.
omg man, hearing him speak is sending me straight to childhood days and nights of Gothic 1 and 2.
I don't know what this book is about or whatever he's reading, but just his voice sounds like family to me.
sanatate fratele meu@@The7Laws-m1c
Nici nu intelegeam engleza cand unchiul meu juca Gothic 1 si 2, iar eu ma uitam si eram pur si simplu "drogat" si nici astazi nu inteleg ce are jocul de imi place asa de mult.
Sanatate si tie frate.
cred ca e estetica si ambientalul, cu stilistica din Germania medievala si motive literare Gotice. se potrivesc la fix si au un soundtrack impecabil. si eu am o obsesie nesanatoasa cu seria =)) @@The7Laws-m1c
chills...
I know nothing about picking locks
Quite a macabre story! Very Stephen King. The ending is not for the faint hearted.
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That female voice is funny. Well done with the reading!
Here's the audio version I was looking for. Thank you!
Huge SK fan so ty so much 4 these
Nothing there! Nothing to be had there! Nothing to plunder.
😮 me soooo much was the character Malique Messenger of God.
Most likely spelled the same as the Old Testament minor prophet, Malachi, but yes he is as creepy as a cockroach on a wedding cake.
I know that a person needs to suspend disbelief when reading (or listening to) fiction but the idea of a small town falling off the face of the earth without anyone noticing is just too much for me even with the supernatural element. There would have been waaay more dead bodies on crosses if that’s what they did to all outsiders that came to Gatlin after the children’s uprising. Utility workers wondering why the power went down, state police and maybe FBI wondering why about 4500 people vanished, people with family and friends who lived there wondering if they were ok, etc, etc. Its a fun story, don’t get me wrong but just too much of a stretch for this generally rational person
I know what you mean; I'd never put it under too much scrutiny, but fundamentally we all either go with a story or we don't/find ourselves unable to. The story seems to have been inspired by a mix of Shirley Jackson and the Spanish film 'Who Could Kill a Child' - the latter presents much the same concept, of a bright, sunlit town where the adults have all been murdered by the children... but it presents that as something that's only really a matter of hours or days old, not months or years as seems to be the case with King's take on the idea. I suspect a lot of scary stories get away with the kind of implausibility you highlight here because by their nature they target the audience's emotions first and foremost... I dare say Mr. King's vision of Gatlin is at least partly intended as a satire of religious extremism in the same way that The Lottery was, and perhaps he intended that idea to stand way ahead of the rational basis for the narrative...
@@mysteriousmagpie Makes sense and you are likely right
@@mattalley4330 ...I won't be able to unsee the problems now you've pointed them out though!
Sounds like someone’s not a constant reader…
Burt actually questions the notion about halfway through the story. King knows it doesn’t make sense and that’s what makes it creepier in a way.
While there’s nothing in the story to suggest as much, I like to think that the supernatural entity He Who Walks Behind The Rows was somehow able to influence the nearby towns and people to forget about Gatlin and never drive near it, in a similar way to how It influences Derry. Why Burt and Vicky then fell into its grasp isn’t entirely clear, but perhaps it was a test for the children. That’s just my headcanon explanation however.
Two time Bert shouts to his wife " The shootgun Vicky" , what a Looser
The Movie is WAYYYYYY BETTTTER .😕😕😕
Movie dragged on far too long, however I do love the movie.
The film is good, but the finale (while still fun to watch) is a bit of a misstep, or at the very least could have been executed a little better. The short film Disciples of the Crow (also based on Children of the Corn made a year before the film) is well worth watching and generally (name changes to the town, state and some of the antagonists aside) more faithful to the short story, at least up until the church sequence, where it deviates to a swifter conclusion. It captures the atmosphere of the short story better in my opinion.
Awful narration.
watch a 1970's movie called to kill a child , king stole the plot from that movie .
That's my feeling also, though I think there's a sprinkling of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery in here too, and possibly a fair bit of Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (the subversion of the community by a demonic religion). But I feel the comparison with WCKAC, especially in the film adaptation with the same still, empty community under relentless sunshine etc.