NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Eric Stevenson I believe this was the first direct to video sequel in the "Children Of The Corn" series. Direct to video sequels are rarely good and it makes sense for a series that was never good to begin with. It's amazing how ridiculous this film gets. The plot is that two boys from the town where the first two movies took place have been adopted. The younger boy grows corn which somehow makes him mind control a bunch of other kids, although they don't really make that clear. This movie actually features people being horribly mutilated by cornstalks.There's this one priest characters who I swear looks like John Cleese. Kind of ironic considering he's a critic of religion. The dumbest part is at the very end where they use these bad special effects to show the kid throwing fireballs (!) at his brother with his scythe. It gets much dumber as we seem to see the thing that's been hiding underground the past movies. It looks like some giant mole rat with multiple appendages. The effects are horrendous and the story is just stupid. *1/2

GL84 Moving into a Chicago suburb after being adopted by a childless family, two teens from Gatlin, Nebraska set about trying to recreate the societal structure they employed back home, forcing their foster parents to race to stop them before they complete their task.This here was a rather enjoyable if somewhat problematic effort in the series. Like most of the others in the franchise, what really tends to hold this one back is the fact that there's just nothing about the society that's all too appealing in order to bring people in. Once again, it's based mostly on the fact that he begins spouting off such superficial and totally baseless knowledge about the different rules of his society that somehow manages to win over everybody no matter how ludicrous it's based on. That really works against it here as once again he manages to win over the crowd of people despite his audience being comprised of an urban environment that wouldn't in the slightest be interested in what he has to say if it happened in the real world. Given that, as well as the inherent idiocy of what he preaches that would never be given any kind of notice, this cult manages to be one of the more confounding and confusingly popular around. That also brings up yet another of the common flaws in that it's rather hard to take any of these films seriously due to the fact that it's just so obvious any irrational, violent adult in the situation who starts throwing fists the first second things go wrong would inevitably stop the rampage before it starts, for these supposedly threatening kids aren't threatening in the slightest and manage to make this one feel so lame with such a weak main villain that it really saps a lot of the overall fear out of this one just with these two features. One of the better adaptations here is the fact that, even with these flaws it has some likable elements to be had, with the film's rather outlandish and exciting action scenes really picking this one up considerably. The nightmarish dreams he's afflicted with are quite dark and chilling, while the scenes of the parents overcome with insects spewing from their mouths being rather fun as well and the scenes of the victims being overcome outside in the cornfields leads to some rather fun deaths as well. Even the finale, with it's large monster erupting from underneath the ground and attacking the assembled group in a large swarm of flying vines and body parts sprayed with blood makes for a nice finale and keeps this one fun enough to really overcome the flaws. Though there's still the fact that the only thing that's really changed in this film is the deaths and when the society begins that works nicely here, otherwise it's the same old thing and that makes this one feel rather humdrum compared to the other sequels.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

LukeNickels88 Okay I really liked the 1st two installments of this series. But eventually you knew they would have to start making horrible sequels.The film takes place in Chicago and two children from Gatlin, Nebraska were adopted to a family that lived in the Windy city. One named Joshua who was a dashing young man and the other was Eli a sort of Damien-esque child. Well Eli plants "Supernatural Corn". Long story short he practically hypnotizes all the children at his school and people die in graphic ways.I had a lot of flaws with this flick of course. 1st was making it into the urban setting. 2nd was the characters. 3rd was Joshua and the black guy driving all the way back to Nebraska to get the bible of the corn. Then last but not least was the finale, it should've ended a lot of earlier. But instead they had to get a few more deaths in before the credits started to roll. And the sister of that one guy who was the love interest of Joshua was a doll at one moment. I understand low budget and all but seriously this was the 1990s.Overall its not the worst Children of the Corn film but it isn't the best.

Michael_Elliott Children of the Corn III ** (out of 4) Josh (Ron Melendez) and his younger brother Eli (Daniel Cerny) move to Chicago from Nebraska after their father mysteriously disappears. As it turns out, Eli is in a cult with the corn and other forces and soon he's taking the kids of Chicago in plans to turn them against the world. This third film in the series was the first to go straight to video but it looks like it might have originally been meant for theaters. The production values are pretty good and nothing about it looks like something that would go straight to video. The movie is certainly better than the first one but I'm not sure how many people, outside of die-hard horror nuts like myself would actually want to watch it. I think the best thing they did was move the action to Chicago and put the cornfield in an abandoned building. Having the Amish kid stalk the streets and tough guys of Chicago made for a lot of fun as two cultures mixed and often did battle. The screenplay has a rather nice story even if what the heck Eli's trying to do never really makes too much sense. Some of the special effects are pretty bad but some are good like a few scenes where some adults throw up some insects. Performances are decent for this type of movie, which is all we can ask for. Apparently this was Charlize Theron's first movie but I wasn't able to spot her.