Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Cortechba Overrated

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Leofwine_draca This film follows directly on from where the first CHILDREN OF THE CORN left off. In the opening moments, we see police discovering all the remains of the dead adults which is quite a disturbing image - these grey corpses look as lifelike as possible. It's the same with the scene in a cornfield where a couple discover even more strewn human remains scattered around. The special effects are good, definitely, but the plot? Oh dear.Essentially, it's just a remake of the first film but with better special effects and less suspense/atmosphere. Unfortunately for us, the special effects are indeed the only things which have improved, for the first film had superior acting as well. This cast look like they have walked straight out of a television movie - the father and son heroes also have an ongoing feud, which culminates in some sappy sentimentalising at the end of the film where they make up - as if we couldn't guess. It's true, the acting is extremely poor in this film, nobody is remotely realistic and the camera is more interested in lingering on the physiques of the female characters rather than exploring their, well, characters.Another fault lies in that they had to add a totally irrelevant subplot in - something about growing toxic mould on the corn and selling it - which almost ruins the whole story. This is about supernatural stuff, not some underground crime scheme. It's just cliché after cliché - a Native American turns up, and, surprise, surprise, talks about mankind harming Mother Nature and the rest. We've heard it all before, pal, and we're just not interested. They try to make some scenes spooky but the child actors are poor and unrealistic - especially the lead, who is no match for Isaac from the first film.And so, as I am finding with so many '90s horror movies, the special effects are the only worthwhile things in the whole film. There is a high gore level here, and the violence is surprisingly sadistic - witness one old man being stabbed to death with needles in his legs. Of course, if we cared about the characters these gory moments might have been powerful and moving, but as it is they're just wince inducing. One man bleeds spontaneously as a kid stabs a wooden effigy of him in the film's bloodiest moment, and another guy has a piece of corn impale his throat (as ridiculous on screen as it sounds here). The biggest disappointment, though, is the boring, predictable ending where we don't even get to see the monster (only some rip-off PREDATOR POV shots). Just some people fighting and burning. Was this the end of the franchise? Well, maybe it should have been, but CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST followed shortly afterwards.

bowmanblue I was fifteen when I first saw Children of the Corn 2. And I loved it. Then again, I hadn't seen much horror at the time. However, over twenty years later and I find myself realising how little I knew about decent cinema when I was a teenager.Don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed Children of the Corn 2 yet again, but now I found myself laughing heartily all the way though. Seriously, some comedies don't make me laugh as much as this film did (now, in the cold light of my adulthood).If you can ignore the use of the word 'final' in the title (there are about four more Children of the Corn films afterwards) and be prepared not to take this story that seriously, you may just enjoy some of the most ludicrous death scenes ever committed on the elderly. The story follows a boy and his single parent father, coming to the nearby town in search of a story as to what happened to the adults who were now found to have been murdered by the children of the town. Once this pair arrive, both instantly fall in love with beautiful women and discover that a young lad by the name of Micha, leads a group of local children to stare intently at adults before dropping houses on them. If you watch this movie you will realise it has some of the most intense staring ever committed to film. Besides the beautiful women and staring brats, there's also a wise old native American, some 'Predator-vision' from the monster (or 'he who hides behind the rows') and a sheriff who tries to kill people like he was a Bond villain.How this film was supposed to be taken seriously, I'll never know. Just know what you're getting before you watch this. Take the biggest pinch of salt you'll ever take, suspend your disbelief like you never have before and sit back and enjoy one of the most daftly funny horror films ever made.

Vomitron_G "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice" is pretty much an okay sequel, staying in sync with the events that happened in the town of Gatlin 8 years earlier, but I'm not sure if I can actually call it better than the original. It's a bit difficult to compare the two movies, since the original definitely wasn't aiming for gore or spectacular kills. The first "CotC" tried to build a bit of mystery and played it a little more creepier. Sure, by today's standards that might very well translate to 'a little more goofier'. But truthfully, upon re-watching "CotC II", I couldn't help noticing it also has its fair share of (unintended) goofy moments. Like the two old sister characters, whose deaths are more funny than terrifying, really (one gets crushed by a house on pillars, the other gets catapulted with her wheelchair into a room full of Bingo-players). And where did that Indian mumbo-jumbo explanation all of the sudden come from? Christie Clark was an enormously cute teen-babe at the time; just thought I'd mention that.After this first sequel, 4 others followed each other rapidly throughout the '90s, so "CotC II" is much more responsible for starting up the whole franchise than the original was. And all sequels are pretty much on par with what all other sequels from other franchises were being cranked out those days (the '90s installments of the "Amytiville" series, for example). Hardly great horror movies, but they always managed to entertain me, trying to come up with some original & amusing kills time after time or desperately hoping to bring a new twist to tired concepts.Noteworthy is that Bob Keen & Gary J. Tunnicliffe did the special effects on "CotC II". But then again, it's not exactly their most impressive work ever. At any rate, I did have fun re-watching "CotC II". I like the musical score by Daniel Licht also. He's a talented composer, though people hardly seem to know which (horror) movies he was involved with.

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/