六个陌生人醒来时被困在一片无尽的玉米地里，却发现了一件神秘的东西正在追捕他们。

一个日渐衰落的中西部小镇，曾经是成功象征的小丑弗兰多再次出现，并成为恐怖的祸害。

年轻情侣波顿（Peter Horton 饰）和维姬（Linda Hamilton 饰）旅行路过内布拉斯加州盖特林镇，他们在公路上发现一具儿童尸体。为了报警，两人驱车驶入盖特林镇，却发现镇上的情况更为诡异蹊跷：这里似乎是儿童的王国，所有成人均不见踪影。孩子们全都听命于一个名叫艾塞克（John Franklin 约翰•法兰克林 饰）、自称上帝使者的小男孩。 镇上的大人究竟哪里去了？孩子们充满恶意的眼神背后究竟隐藏着什么秘密？波顿和维姬最终能否活着走出小镇？ 本片荣获1984年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节最佳奇幻电影奖。

在内布拉斯加州的一个小镇上，一个患有精神病的12岁女孩招募了其他所有孩子，并进行了血腥的暴行，杀死了腐败的成年人和其他反对她的人。一个聪明的高中生不同意这个计划，他是这个小镇唯一生存的希望。

The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children's future.

This is one of the films that came out of a rejection of expressive camera work, sound, language, editing. I wanted to offer a rich experience of phenomena and associations that could come from a continuous moving image the length of a roll of film. The scene is a space of ceremony, of an offering. This is the world of my house in the country, of my marriage to a potter whose bowl represents her. She is the actor. There are actions that have to do with the transformation of ears of corn into sustenance. These actions take place within a space/time theater of slow continuous changes of light and shadow. There are long spaces where the viewer is free to look at various parts of the screen and, with the steam that rises from the cooked ears, into the very grains of the film itself. The sinuous dance of steam is a counterpart to the fog of FOG LINE. The two films are joined.

第五集故事令人惊恐万分，坐立不安。六位同学于路途上失散分别不约而同地来到一个位於市郊沙漠小镇上，他们寻找不到对方，只发现镇上有一小孩，凶残成性像是给魔鬼支配着，他们走到哪，都会遇上被肢解后的零碎屍骸，他们于是决定留下来，拯救小孩，尝试干他们的死亡习作...

女主角的母亲因一直做恶梦，而女主角回到家乡去探望她，这时全镇的小孩突然患上不名疾病，后来女主角发现是个一位传教士乔舒亚有关，到底整件事的真相是如何呢……

由王珞丹主演，王小帅导演的《玉米人》以留守儿童的故事为主线，讲述了当下中国农民与土地的关系。