"Just because some self-proclaimed holy man said this was God commands? What damn god ask their children to kill their parents, huh?!”
- ―Burt, to the town civillizans.
Burt Stanton (or Burt Robeson in the short story) was played by Peter Horton, he is the main protagonist of the movie Children Of The Corn along with it's short story Children of the Corn.
History and Plot[]
Short Story[]
He drove with his wife Vicky Baxter in Nebraska in the moment of an argument. This trip to the coast to visit Vicky's brother was done in
an attempt to save their marriage. While in the trip, they drove in a turnpike where they got off to a unknown road to travel through rows of corn. As the argument escalated, he took his eyes off the road and told Vicky that they could turn around and go home to the lawyer she wanted to talk to. While speaking, Vicky alerted him to look out before he goes to run over something. After stopping the car and the object going under the car, he ask her if it was a dog, only for to tell him that it was a little boy.
After his wife went out to look at the body, he follow her and halfway between the car and his wife, he noticed possibly blood on the corn through the left of his eyes. Several cornstalks had been broken and noticed an object further back of the shadows formed. He entered the corn to pick up the object while his wife was speaking to him from far. After leaving the corn with the object, his wife keep having hysterics and slapped her across the face.
He placed the suitcase (the object) he had found in the corn at the feet of his wife. She bent to undo one of the hanks wrapped in the suitcase and as blood greased, she withdrew. He knelt and turned the body. As a result, He and his wife noticed that the body's throat had been cut. He decided to comfort his wife and told her to go back to the car and get his rifle and a blanket. He told her that someone had cut the boy's throat and is possibly watching them.
1984 Film[]
He is a doctor who, together with his girlfriend, Vicky, goes to his internship in Seattle. On the way he is forced to pass Gatlin, where they kidnap his girlfriend and try to kill him. In a moment of danger, Burt runs out, beating the shit of out a captor and scream for Becky to runaway, as he then scream and manipulate the towns people to come to their senses. A red haired then came and try to kill him, but backfired. Issac then revied, freaking out the cult as they runaway, take the change, Burt runs along with them. Later, he is saved by Job and, together with him and Sarah, they save Vicky, defeating the death cult and then destroy "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". After the incident, he and Vicky adopt Job and Sarah, go away from Gatlin and report to the authorities what happened. Then they all go to Seattle.
2009 TV Film[]
Victims[]
- Red-haired boy: For trying to kill him and going for his eyes.