Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
part of Children of the Corn

The film tells the story of a demonic force that possesses the children in a fictional Nebraskan town, causing them to murder the town's adults.

The plot concerns Hemmingford, Nebraska, a fictional town near Gatlin. The people of Hemmingford decide to adopt the surviving children in Gatlin, intending to help the children start new lives. Unfortunately for the well-meaning locals, the children go out to the cornfield where one of the corn cult members, Micah, has been possessed by a demon sent by He Who Walks Behind The Rows, the demonic entity the cult worships. Over the course of one weekend, the children kill everyone in the town.

Newly orphaned brothers Joshua and Eli, of Gatlin, Nebraska (the setting of the previous two films) are adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Porter of Chicago after their father is murdered. When they start at school, everyone notices they are strange. Eli is a disciple sent by "He Who Walks Behind the Rows", the demonic god of the Children of the Corn, and begins recruiting the local kids to do the demon's bidding.

Several children in a small town become possessed under the command of a wrongfully murdered child preacher named Josiah who seeks revenge on the town that killed him. The kids assume the identities of dead children from that town's history, and attempt to resurrect Josiah from the dead.

A group of teens become lost in middle America and arrive in Gatlin, Nebraska, where forgotten children have taken on the duty of serving "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". The teens have less than a week to get out of the town. However, they find that their car is destroyed, and the children are held accountable. Alison, the leader of the teens, overhears that the children are the adopted wards of Lucas Enright, a madman who considers himself the savior of the children, and the earthly representative of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Upon remembering that her brother is also among them, Alison and the rest decide to go to Enright's farm to discover the truth behind the bizarre cult.

Hannah, the child born at the end of part five, visits the town of Gatlin to find her real mother. On the way she picks up a street preacher by the name of Zachariah, who tells her about her name, then vanishes. After crashing into the corn, Hannah is taken into town by a police officer named Cora. Once there, she finds out Isaac was not killed by "He Who Walks Behind The Rows", but instead went into a coma. Also, the surviving children from the original Gatlin massacre in Children of the Corn and the subsequent reprisal in Children of the Corn 2 (with the exception of Micah and Eli) have been returned to living in Gatlin for the past couple of years. The audience is also shown what is debatable among fans as the true identity of "He Who Walks Behind the Rows": The first born son of the original children, Gabriel. Still, this could just be another child possessed by the corn god.

A woman named Jamie comes to Omaha, Nebraska after numerous phone calls to her grandmother have gone unanswered. Her grandmother's apartment block is empty, and Jamie meets her grandmother's neighbors while investigating. When an FBI agent becomes involved, she finds out that a Children of the Corn cult, originating before Isaac's, sacrificed themselves before turning over to the townspeople.