Children of the Corn (2020)

A young girl named Eden is playing outside when an older boy named Boyd emerges from the cornfield and retrieves a knife. He hears whispering from the cornfield and promises Eden that he does not want her to cry anymore and that "nothing really dies in the corn." After this Boyd enters the Rylstone children's home and slaughters several people inside. Boyd keeps the remaining adults hostage inside the children's home and the Rylstone sheriff and other local farmers attempt to use Halothane, an animal seditive gas, to knock Boyd unconscious. However, the gas kills all those inside, including 15 children.

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. Frustrated by the lack of progress, the adults of Rylstone form a town hall meeting and the majority vote to destroy their crops so they can receive a crop subsidy from the government, infuriating Eden, an orphan being raised by the town preacher, and the other children, all of whom objected to the decision. One of the local teenagers, Boleyn, schemes with her friends to hold a mock trial that night where they will hold the adults accountable. They enlist Eden's assistance, but are horrified when this results in Eden imprisoning and slaughtering several adults and holding Boleyn hostage. The remaining adults, including Boleyn's mother, are jailed and later knocked unconscious with Halothane by Eden and forced into a pit in the cornfield, where they are used as human sacrifices for a monstrous green entity called "He Who Walks." Eden reveals that they will eradicate all adults from the world and she will take care of “He Who Walks” after he took care of her while she wandered the cornfields.

Boleyn is knocked unconscious and when she awakens she discovers that they intend to sacrifice her as well. She is able to escape, but is soon recaptured by Eden, who intends to kill her using a cattle gun. Boleyn is granted a cigarette as a final wish; however, the teen instead uses the lighter to set fire to the highly flammable corn. This successfully kills "He Who Walks"; however, Eden also perishes while trying to save the monster. The following day Boleyn returns to the fields to survey the damage, where she is devoured by Eden, who has been transformed into a monster akin to "He Who Walks".