Filmed during the 2020 lockdowns. Was able to avoid production shutdown due to being financed from an indie production.
Produced in 2020 but not released until 2023.
Les Démons du maïs (2020) marks the twelfth adaptation into the screen for this Stephen King short story after Les Démons du maïs (1984), Les démons du maïs 2: Le sacrifice final (1992), Les Démons du maïs 3 : Les Moissons de la terreur (1995), Les Démons du maïs 4 : La Moisson (1996), Les Démons du maïs 5 : La Secte des damnés (1998), Les Démons du maïs 6 : Le Retour d'Isaac (1999), Les Démons du maïs 7 : La Révélation (2001), Children of the Corn (2009), Les enfants du maïs (2011), Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018), and a short film Les disciples du corbeau (1983) in the horror video anthology The Night of the Scarecrow.
First movie for Kurt Wimmer since Ultraviolet (2006). Wimmer had retired from direction due to "creative differences" with the studio executives of the movie.
The black and white program on the television early on in the film is The Twilight Zone season 3 episode "It's a Good Life," where a young boy with incredible abilities holds a small town hostage and sends anyone and anything that displeases him "to the cornfield."