Oddball movie connections

I love oddball connections or inspirations that people have in jumping between wildly different movies. So the above comment that I saw last week on Facebook really made me chuckle. It must be the first (and only?) time that the corny and overlong Children of the Corn horror series led someone to Godfrey Reggio's non-narrative and meditative documentaries Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002).

Ashar and I have our own running joke surrounding Children of Corn. On August 14, 2022, we were watching the 1984 original — the one where Courtney Gains runs around yelling "Interlopers!" — and making fun of how bad it was, with its idea of a deity that walks between the rows. Then we got hit by a monsoon with hail and straight-line winds that tore out a huge tree in our front yard and scared the hell out of the cats. 

Ever since, Ashar and I have joked that if it's too dry and we need to summon some summer rain, we should watch one of the Children of the Corn movies. I have the one with Naomi Watts on standby, just in case.