The film was rushed into production by Dimension Films because the studio was about to lose the rights to the Children of the Corn series, the last film Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) having been released 10 years prior to this one (the Children of the Corn (2009) TV film was not made by Dimension Films and was instead another adaption of the original novel).
In a 2016 interview with the Deadline Hollywood News, Stephen King admitted that he "could have done without" all of the "Children of the Corn" sequels.