Not my first time to watch this but definitely my last. I re-watched it only for the sake of nostalgia and .... yeesh, this thing was horrible. Stephen King is one of my favorite authors; unfortunately, not ONE of his novels has translated to the big screen adequately. I don't know if he can be faulted for that but it seems like if he had watched the screening of this.... I don't know. Maybe back in 1984 this was something but by today's standards, that "something" is "utterly ridiculous". The effects in the closing sequences were horribly lame but it wasn't just that that ruined this for me: it was the entire concept of a bunch of CHILDREN somehow overpowering a town full of adults, killing them all, and then living "happily ever after" by following the orders of some snotty johnny-come-lately telling them about some mysterious being that lives in the cornfields. "He Who Walks Behind the Rows".... that's the best they could come up with? Make no mistake: the short story written by King was a great story...but even it was far-fetched. And the attempt to morph the short story into an hour-and-a-half movie, well, it just failed miserably. I can't even give kudos to anyone here for acting chops, as it was all just BAD. Of course, the majority of the movie was about "children" and very few children are going to produce Oscar-worthy performances. No fear of that happening here, certainly. Even Linda Hamilton couldn't rescue this one. This was just awful.