AaronCapenBanner Sequel(!) to the surprise hit original is set eight years later, after authorities cleaned up the bodies from the massacre, the surviving children are moved to another town for adoption, but soon after the mysterious creature from behind the rows of corn is back to take possession over one of them, and restart the murderous cult. A visiting journalist and his son try to stop them.Pointless and inept sequel is utterly ineffectual; just another series of violent and senseless killings, repeating the first film's plot, only without the amusing overacted camp value that seemed to make the first popular.

BA_Harrison The first Children of the Corn, based on a Stephen king short story, was a dried up, empty husk of a movie, lacking anything really tasty to get the teeth into; whilst part II is far from essential viewing, a belated and predictably dumb sequel, at least there are a few tasty niblets to be found amongst the chaff.Firstly, this one is far more gruesome, the children of Gatlin offing their victims in inventive and often bloody fashion (FX by Bob Keen), highlights including a fatal stabbing with syringes, a messy hemorrhage from the nose and ears caused by voodoo doll, and a silly but fun scene inspired by the Wizard of Oz in which an old woman is crushed by a house (her sister is even called Miss West, as in 'wicked witch of the').The film also benefits from a couple of decent 90s babes in the form of sexy bed and breakfast owner Angela (Rosalind Allen) and busty teen hottie Lacey (Christie Clark). Frustratingly, neither gal gets nekkid for the camera, although Angela does hop in the sack for a brief nudity-free romp with tabloid hack John Garrett (Terence Knox) and lovely Lacey takes a shower under a waterfall in her bikini top, much to the delight of John's son Danny (Paul Scherrer).Sadly, the lacklustre plot itself isn't all any where near as memorable as either the splatter or the eye-candy, and as the story develops, too many elements are introduced that irritatingly conflict with each other—toxic corn that induces hallucinations in children, a psycho cop, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, Indian mysticism—by the end of the film, not only did I not know what was going on, but I didn't really care. Fortunately, as the end of the film approaches, matters get so silly that it can't fail to entertain, with both babes being offered as blood sacrifices, cult leader Micah becoming possessed, and a runaway combine harvester for good measure.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Long awaited sequel to the 1984 Stephen King home on the range or cornfield horror flick "Children of the Corn" that took nine years in the making.In this corny film the children now eight years older and looking as if they didn't age a day are discovered by the local police and news reporters after their parents were found slaughtered in a basement in the now almost deserted town of Glatin. Instead of trying to find the children's, who should have been the #1 suspects in their murder, parents killers the children are shipped off to Hemingford to be adopted by the unsuspecting people there. In no time at all deaths starts occurring at Hemingford with the elders, that's those over 20 years old, being targeted by an unknown force of nature that happens to be the zombie like children themselves.To make the movie interesting we also have a parent & son dispute involving supermarket tabloid newsman John Garrett, Terrance Knox, and his bratty and foul mouth son Danny, Paul Scherrer. Both Pop & Jr. don't see eye to eye in their very shaky relationship with each other that involves Poppa leaving Momma and taking Jr. with him when Jr was only an infant. This soon ends when Danny on his way back to New York runs into sexy and recently arrived, to Hemmingford, Lacy Hellerstat, Christie Clark. Almost overnight Danny drops is bratty and foul mouth persona, as well as hair color, and goes back home to daddy just so he can be with Lacy who's more then willing to jump into the hey with him.Back to the children of the corn their instructed by their leader the blow-hard and wild eyed Micah, Ryan Bollman, to make ready the ultimate sacrifice in human blood of the elders in town by the time the harvest moon arrives. We also have a strange side-plot in the film involving the town physician Dr, Richard Appley played by Ed Gradey, who's a dead ringer for the former NY State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, and Sheriff Blaine, Wallace Mark, who are both involved with the dirty goings on with the town's corn harvest. The two had secretly stored away the corn for over a year that resulted in it becoming infected with the deadly Aflatoxin virus! That's what happened to the corn harvest when both Blaine & Appley left it hidden and didn't burn it! The rotten and infected corn is now slowly infecting the entire town which in the end will kill far more people then the children of the corn ever will!***SPOILER*** It's only when university professor and Native American Frank Redbear who's actually gray, Ned Romero, shows up later in the movie that it finally starts to make some kind of sense. Redbear soon gets the totally mixed up John Garrett to go alone with him in his attempt to put an end to the children of the corn and their deranged leader Micah in carrying out their evil plan; That's in them killing everyone over 20 in town. Redbear in an effort to stop the harvest moon human sacrifice gets a hold of a mechanical corn picker and steam rolls through the cornfield picking apart the crazed and demonic Micah and turning him into human cornmeal. That's before he himself finally expired from an arrow shot into his gut by one of Micah's followers.In the end we finally get to see the mysterious "One who walks in the Rows" the real power behind Micah who happens to be some kind giant gopher or prairie dog who only works by night and underground.Despite all the blood letting and violence in the movie it's only good for laughs and nothing else. The spaced out and zombie like children of the corn are so ridicules and unbelievable that you can't take them seriously for a second even if you try to. With all the hysterics in the film the one who really takes the cake, and steals every scene that he's in, is the local preacher Rev. Holling, John Bennes. Rev. Hollings is so off the wall and at the same time comical that it's hard to believe that he, in his constant talks and sermons about and against the evils of sex and fornication, could take himself seriously! Which in fact makes Bennes' "serious" acting that of an Academy Award caliber performance.

Boba_Fett1138 Watching this movie makes it all the more obvious that the people who were involved with the previous movie simply were not capable enough of making a decent genre movie. As an horror movie this movie is actually quite a good and effective one.The movie works out way better than "Children of the Corn", from 1984. It's not only due to the better written story that the movie works out but also because all of the elements in it do. The children are far more convincing and kind of scary this time, because they actually get to do some very evil stuff this time. There are quite a few killings in this movie, of which some are quite graphic to watch as well.I can even say that this movie is more Stephen King like, even though Stephen King was not involved with this movie or its story at all, unlike the first movie, which got based on a novel by him. This movie its story, characters, horror and even humor reminded much more of King's style than the first movie really.The movie also does a far better job at explaining stuff. In the first movie basically nothing what happened got explained. In this movie we get to learn a bit more about the past and why things happened the way they did in the small town of Gatlin.I also like how the actual corn in this movie does play a prominent role. The corn in these movies should always be an evil and perhaps even scary thing, you don't want to go into, during night or daytime. The corn is actually a part of the movie its horror. I also liked the score by Daniel Licht, which was simply a great one for an horror movie. He's a composer that has never really broken through yet, though he's getting some fame and attention now for his work on the hit-series "Dexter".Really much better than the first movie.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/