History Main / LostInTheMaize

* The game ''VideoGame/{{Maize}}'' begins with you waking up in the middle of a cornfield, and traversing it becomes one of your initial goals while sifting through the puzzles and dealing with the odd talking corn.

* One of Sal's punishments on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' sends him into a haunted cornfield. The hazards he encounters are a little girl in a dress, a living scarecrow, a pile of manure, and Benjamin Cat.

* One of Prince Herb's punishments on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' sends him into a haunted cornfield. The hazards he encounters are a little girl in a dress, a living scarecrow, a pile of manure, and Benjamin Cat.

* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', [[spoiler:Nicky and his brother]] are lured to a meeting in a cornfield where they are [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] and then buried alive.
* In ''Film/ColdMountain'', after deserting the Confederate army, Inman is on a road through a cornfield when a group of fugitive slaves emerges from the corn near him. He tries to buy an egg from them, but they ignore him and move silently down the road until they're hidden by a clump of trees. Inman keeps walking and then [[SoundOnlyDeath hears screams and gunshots coming from the trees]], forcing him to make a panicked dash into the corn. The eerie thing is the [[DaylightHorror sunny, serene tone of the scene]], with several idyllic-looking shots of the trees and cornfield undisturbed by what's happening to the characters.

* The cornfield rave massacre in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"This maize is too hard for me!"]]

* The above painting, "Cornfield with [[CreepyCrows Crows]]", is generally agreed to be the last thing Creator/VincentVanGogh painted before he killed himself.

* A villain in the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' miniseries ''My First Maniac'' used a cornfield (formerly belonging to a farmer he killed) as a hunting ground, having turned it into a deadly maze. It's full of traps and surrounded by barbed wire, and nails through the stalks that rip into anyone who tries to just run through them.

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* ''Film/{{Signs}}'': The priest lives next to a very creepy cornfield; he ends up being chased through it at night.
* ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'', with the bees in cornfields...

* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', as a little girl, Jenny runs into the cornfield behind their house to hide from her drunken abusive father. ("Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far, far away from here.")
* Also, the scene in the 1967 ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', where Bonnie runs away through one because [[spoiler: she misses her momma.]]
* The cornfield rave massacre in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''.
* In ''Film/InTheTallGrass'', the protagonists hear a cry for help coming from a field of tall grass, and decide to investigate - but they quickly realize that the field is magical, and it's almost impossible to get out of it once you get in.
* In 2010, a horror movie all about murders in a corn maze (at night!), [[SarcasmMode creatively]] called ''Film/TheMaze'' was released. Though in actuality, viewers probably do see more corn than murder.
%%* ''Film/CryBabyLane'' has this in the climax.
* ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' has a scene where a bunch of {{mooks}} are ambushed and killed by pygmy zombies in waist-high plant life.
* In ''[[Film/SyfyChannelOriginalMovie The 12 Disasters Of Christmas]]'', two teenage girls flee from a tornado through an orchard of Christmas trees.
* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', [[spoiler:Nicky and his brother]] are lured to a meeting in a cornfield where they are [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] and then buried alive.
* In ''Film/ColdMountain'', after deserting the Confederate army, Inman is on a road through a cornfield when a group of fugitive slaves emerges from the corn near him. He tries to buy an egg from them, but they ignore him and move silently down the road until they're hidden by a clump of trees. Inman keeps walking and then [[SoundOnlyDeath hears screams and gunshots coming from the trees]], forcing him to make a panicked dash into the corn. The eerie thing is the [[DaylightHorror sunny, serene tone of the scene]], with several idyllic-looking shots of the trees and cornfield undisturbed by what's happening to the characters.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', the farm house is surrounded by a field full of dead corn plants. The climax takes place with characters hopelessly lost in the field down a downpour.
* The protagonists of ''Film/{{Husk}}'' spend much of the film walking, running or driving through the seemingly endless cornfield that surrounds the house; usually with idea of what direction they are going.
* A southern variant in ''Film/LockjawRiseOfTheKulevSerpent''. Kurt gets lost is a field of sugar cane while searching for Sam. He gets grabbed by the serpent and dragged away.
* The climactic chase in ''Film/TheGathering'' has the protagonists hiding from a madman while running through a field of corn near their house.

* Averted in ''Literature/ReaperMan'', where the term "corn" actually refers to wheat.[[note]]"Corn" in general means any cereal grain, or indeed anything small and edible, as in "peppercorn" and "corned beef" where the "corns" involved are actually the large grains of rock salt used in the process; outside North America, the word used to refer to the kind of corn Americans usually mean when they say "corn" is "maize".[[/note]] This doesn't stop many American readers from getting a mental image of Death toiling in a creepy cornfield when they read this ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel.
* In ''Literature/TheLovelyBones'', Susie is [[ShortCutsMakeLongDelays cutting through]] a cornfield on her way home from school when a neighbor lures her into a secret underground room, rapes her and kills her.
* The Jerome Bixby short story "Literature/ItsAGoodLife", where the RealityWarper Anthony Fremont literally buries people who do anything he doesn't like in the cornfield behind his family's home. Served as the basis for a memorable [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''.
* Creator/StephenKing's short story ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheCorn'' served as [[InNameOnly loose inspiration]] for an endless string of movies which are probably the example that a lot of people remember, and contributes a great deal to cornfields being associated with creepiness. The page quote above, from the original story, gives an example.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The prologue of ''That Ain't Witchcraft'' features Annie and Sam destroying a Corn Blight, a FesteringFungus that kills and zombifies people who get lost in the corn.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMiddle'' had the teenaged son lose his little brother in a cornfield maze, and he kept running into the creepy [[CrustyCaretaker caretaker]] who told him about how he had lost his own little brother in a cornfield all those years ago.

* The ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "Mummy in the Maze".
* The Pawnee Harvest Festival had a maze in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. When Li'l Sebastian wanders in there, it leads to a massive manhunt. When [[ButtMonkey Jerry Gergich]] gets lost during the manhunt, everyone forgets about him.

* The [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween-themed]] ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' story "The One-Eyed Bear" centers around a road trip to an annual haunted corn maze attraction in Verona, MO referred to, appropriately enough, as [[http://www.themaize.com/sites.php?ID=&username=moverona The MAiZE]]. (See RealLife, below.) In keeping with getting lost, they stumble onto the attraction while fleeing from a nightmare and a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]], only to be menaced by a [[HockeymaskAndChainsaw hockey-mask-wearing, chainsaw wielding maniac]] [[spoiler:who is actually both a performer in the haunted maze and a bugbear in human guise]].

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' when Rocky and Ivy run off into a cornfield in an attempt to lose the car chasing them. The corn turns out to be too short to hide them, prompting Rocky to say that "this is ''terrible'' corn!"

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', in its episode "Johnny, Real Good" (a parody of ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 It's A Good Life]]'') has this as one of the torments that the RealityWarper boy inflicts upon Johnny: teleportation to an actual cornfield (not really that horrible, but still a minor annoyance for Johnny who has to walk back home), which becomes a RunningGag. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, he teleports sleeping Johnny in his bed onto [[FarSideIsland a lonely island]] -- covered with maize.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}!'':
** "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes". Of course X Middle School has its own corn maze. Why wouldn't it?
--> "The corn! IT ALL LOOKS THE SAME!"
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBusyWorldOfRichardScarry'', [[RoadSignReversal an inadequately supported sign flips]] and sends people looking for a stall selling corn into the middle of a cornfield, where they can't find their way out again.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Roadside Attraction", Soos is accidentally left behind by the Pines in a Corn Maze tourist trap.