Children of the Corn Summary

Burt and Vicky are an estranged couple who are making one last effort to save their marriage by making a cross country trip to visit Vicky's brother. Burt decided to leave the highway a few hours before in order to find some interesting scenery, but now they find themselves staring at nothing but corn fields. As they argue about when to stop for lunch, they run a child down in the street. Burt gets out in order to investigate and discovers that the boy's throat is cut. Burt loads the boy up in the trunk of the car, takes a suitcase he found in the corn field, and drives into the nearest town. Burt wants to find the sheriff's office to report the boy's death. However, when they arrive in town they find it completely deserted even...