Spoiler Alert: This story ruins all the twists and turns of "The Joker in the Corn Field", so be warned!

"The Joker of the Cornfield" is a certified independent hit, the largest opening weekend for IFC to date. According to the popular YA Horror Book, the difference between this movie and the other Slashers is the twists in the mid-to-late films that tilt their heads the rules.

distortion? The Joker's trouble, who had previously glimpsed teenagers in a potentially supernatural way, descended on a farmhouse party filled with drunken teenagers. But, after a bloody death caught the attention of the revelers, not a Frando came out of the cornfield, but a group of bloodthirsty killer clowns immediately started running around.

It was an indelible image for horror fans this year and has caused a compelling revelation that all adults plan to kill children in the town to reject tradition. As Eli Craig and Adam Cesare, author of the series "The Cornfield Joker" in a recent discussion, this is a twist that requires more in-depth analysis. type feature.

But now that the movie is being released and discussed, Chesar and type Once again, to break down the twists and turns in his book, making it a big screen adaptation.

The biggest “Oh, damn!” moment in the movie is when a bunch of Frendos runs out of the cornfield at a party. Is this always a twist you imagine from the beginning?

Yes. It became a battle - "Well, they can't kill their own children!" motivation and thought. Not that I have any controversial relationship with Harper editorials or anything else. I love my editor. But in reality, this is the main creative discussion we have in the book. “Can you kill so many kids, and the culprit part is the parents of the kids?” Now it’s hazy because of six or seven years ago, but I only remember so many phones coming up in my little Philadelphia apartment on the speakers, and we also have a lot of neighbors, some very religious neighbors, as I said, “Yes, “Yes, they can kill their own kids! Trust me, trust me, it will be great! ” (laughs)

This is the subject of general publication, especially in children’s publishing: horror fans have quite specific interests. Things you can participate in will be resolved with horror groups who won't get along with non-terror groups. Especially in Book 3, there are a lot of things, and I thought, "I know this will work. Trust me. It's my life. I like these things more than anything." Don't make it a casual thing to have with elite fans, but if you talk to non-terrifying people when you're in a horror person, you get the look. I totally understand this because someone has a relationship with someone who is not a horror character. Non-terror people can pull you back to “Oh, this is ridiculous” or “that’s disgusting” or “that’s a taboo thing.” You're like, "Oh yeah. I've been doing something like this all the time, and I don't even mark it like that."

Even before the movie, did you receive feedback on the twisted ending when you talk to readers?

Interestingly, there are a lot of pre-discussions inside HarperCollins, not just my editors. I think it's usually like: "What are we doing here?" Then, when the review comes out and starts reading the book, it's not only loved by the target audience of young horror fans, but also by older horror fans and non-horror fans. I heard a lot from teachers, librarians and parents, “this makes my kids read” or “this makes my kids read” or a lot of spouses are giving books to their non-terror crowds, so this is the horror thing about this portal. But it does have this viciousness, and it's a long discussion: "Can Cole's father really try to kill his son? this conspiracy? ” Then you look at the comments and reactions to this, not without people, but there is no statistically large number of people thrown away by it.

Some people speculate online that the film may change the original material, and that Frando will be supernatural. Have you discussed it?

We are going to look back a little now, because Carter Blanchard's first script has several key differences from this book. Carter is a great writer and I love his work, but I hesitate a little. I really want to sneak out of the book there are a few things because I think they are good ideas. But I'm not a big "rock" guy, and in terms of adaptation, I'm a supporter of the filmmaker, and should be the filmmaker, and the author should be the author, and I'm cool about the derivatives and biases of the story. But it has nothing to do with me, Eli is fascinated by the script, and I think it is the core twist, multiple Frendos attract him. He was like, “Yes, there’s something here,” and it’s Carter’s script. Then he read the book - I'm not chatting in school, and he said in the interview: "Let's pull a bunch of things back from the book," to which I said: "I think you're right, but who am I, because I'm a little biased."

But nothing has ever been…I did something really weird in the sequel, but there was never any discussion about the adaptation of The First Book “should he be Michael Myers?” “Will he be Pennywise?” “Will he be art?” There was a clear and almost creative decision: “You cannot When we have to be what we have, to be those things, that's the truth. "It's almost a very standout, it has no franchise and too much genre expectations or genre knowledge, which I think is what makes the movie great. Companies like HarperCollins will get.

Another late reveal in the film is the romantic history of two male characters Rust and Cole. How do you want to solve the problem of displaying it in books and movies?

Writing it in the book, I have a lot more difficult for myself than I have to. I watched Eli in the movies - he didn't have the benefits of internal monologues and all these different things, where you set a lot of these characters to red herring. In the first half of movies and books, Cole and Rust were the main suspects. I think Eli did a great job…he did so elegantly without the guide tracks in my book. In this book, after revealing a lot, it is the kiss of CPR. Because we're so close to Quinn's POV, she thinks Rust does CPR on Cole. After all, this is the moment, and you have a moment of breathing. Then they kissed and she was surprised. However, in movies, this should be a click idea and once you have this context it can make sense.

I said this in the Q&A, like where people just saw the movie, but it was one thing I would actually entertain George Lucas’s book and then back to the reveal in the movie, they were all in the shed. It's so clever that it gives them more time to be a couple and feel the bets that rust may die. It's a structural thing I thought: "Oh, it's different from my book, but if I had a time machine, I'd reveal Cole and Rust early." But when I wrote the first book, I also loved the books and knowledge of it. So I know you can delay this because if you like these characters, and if you like that arc, that arc will continue.