Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

Children of the Corn IV The Gathering is a 1996 American horror film directed by Greg Spence and starring Naomi Watts, Karen Black, and Brent Jennings. It is the fourth film in the Children of the Corn horror series. The plot follows a medical student returning to her hometown in Nebraska, where she finds the children to be falling under a mysterious mass illness connected to the towns past.

Grace Rhodes is a medical student who returns to her hometown of Grand Island, Nebraska, to take care of her mother, June Karen Black, who has become paranoid and refuses to leave her yard. She is having recurring nightmares of being attacked by children. Grace also has to look after her younger siblings James and Margaret. She takes a job at Dr. Larsons local clinic, where shed worked prior. James and Margaret become ill and show symptoms similar to those of the children in Junes dreams. The next day, while working at Dr. Larsens office, Grace notices that many other kids have the same symptoms. During the night all of the kids in town get worse as their fevers skyrocket. Suddenly it all stops and the fevers begin to drop.Local parents Donald Brent Jennings and Sandra Atkins notice that their son Marcus is acting strangely. One night, a group of children descend upon the house led by a child preacher, and Sandra is murdered in front of Marcus. The police arrive and begin to question Donald Marcus flees into a field, and is chased by a sheriff, who is confronted by the child preacher and killed. A suspect in his wifes murder, Donald goes into hiding, and is taken in by two elderly sisters, Jane and Rosa Marietta Marich. ........

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