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Summary: Excellent; Twenty Times Better Than I Expected
Review: To be honest, I rented this out of sheer desperation a couple of years ago, having seen virtually every other horror movie for rent in town (this was before everybody started stocking a dozen new horror titles a month, a welcome development). I'd seen 2 or 3 of the earlier installments and not been impressed and given up on the series. I'm not trying to bash them, I know alot of people really love the whole series, but the original and the first sequel just didn't do anything for me personally. I'm not sure whether I even saw "Urban Harvest" or not - I guess I couldn't have cared for it too much if I did. But I took a chance on this one, breaking my own rule of Never skipping ahead in a series (3, 4 and 5 weren't available) and was certainly glad I did.
Very few times have I gone into a movie with such low expectations and been so totally blown away in surprise. "Children Of The Corn 666: Isaac's Return" is an absolute treasure find! It involves a young woman in search of her past and ending up in the farm town central to the series, notorious for events that happened there previously. The town's cult of children are apparantly in remission, maintaining a facade of normalcy in a community where adults now live as well, the children of the cult biding their time and waiting for some kind of promised dark messiah. I don't really know how closely this fits into the overall series continuity; after seeing this I decided to see all the other chapters but have only seen the follow-up, "Revelation", a good movie but not on par with this one and quite unconnected to it. The previous chapters can't be found for rent and I've already decided I'm going to have to eventually buy them sight unseen (the only reason I haven't done so yet is there are about 500 other movies on my personal 'waiting-to-be-bought' list) but haven't seen them yet, so I don't know if everything fits together or not.
A soaring high point of the movie is a romantic angle which I won't go into too much here, occuring as it does later in the movie. It includes one tremendously sexy scene that achieves its appeal not by being especially overt (not that I'm opposed to other, more openly sexy scenes in different movies), but through the high romanticism and beautiful tenderness. And yes, the female character's limited clothing in the scene certainly doesn't hurt things either, although it would have been gorgeous even without that added benefit.
Intelligent, suspenseful, and well-acted, this is highly recommended for either longtime fans of the series or those who (like me) never were into it before. I might even give the original another try someday and see if there's something there I missed. My only grievance is the ending - this isn't giving anything away, but it could have gone in either of two directions and I would have preferred the road they didn't take. That's purely subjective and doesn't mean the final minutes weren't just as well realized as the rest of the movie. I hope there's a direct followup to this entry with the same characters - the next sequel was a totally different path and different people. Still good, but this one is awesome.
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Summary: CHILDREN OF THE CORN XXX:THE NEW LEADER
Review: 101010 years later from the latest of "CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666 AND 7.
THIS IS THE FINAL SCARIEST MOVIE IN THE
"CHILDREN OF THE CORN MOVIE SERIES".
TARAJAI ASHAWN LITTLES AZ(A'CASHES) JOHN FRANKLIN AZ(ISSAC).
PLOT: A'CASHES AND ISSAC BATTLES IN A FIGHT TO TELL WHO WILL BE THE NEXT LEADER AND THE LOOSER GETS POOT ON THE CROSS AND WHO WILL CROSS THE CORN FIELD AND MALICKYE WILL ALSO BATTLE WITH THESE TWO AND WILL A'CASHES WIN? WILL ISSAC WIN?OR WILL MALICKYE WIN? WHO KNOWS THIS MOVIE WILL BE 101010 YEARS LATER AND WHO KNOWS? WILL THE WORLD CHANGE AND COME TO A SUDDEN END OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN?BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT ISSAC RETURNS FOLLOWED BY THE KING,LEADER,CORN FIELD GUARD:A'CASHES,AND A'CASHES IS PRITTY SMART!
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Summary: Finally a sequel!
Review: Although all of the COTC movies seem to skirt around Steven King's truly brilliant short story, this one and the first come the closest. The original and part 6 are the only two movies that really seem to go together.I think that Dimension films has brought a whole new edge to the cheap horror flick, and COTC has benefited. Great twist at the end, great twist to the orginal story throughout (I don't want to give the suprise away - although you may guess it early on). Paul Popowich is one actor I would definately like to see more from in the future.
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Summary: Will this endless crusade of 'Corn' flicks ever end?
Review: Another cheap, violent and not very suspensful sequal to Children of the Corn. I found this very painful to look at and i was very bored. What a waste of money.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Avoid this at all costs. This is one of the worst films ever made. Absolute, dreadful (...). For a slasher/horror flick their's not much killing or gore... untilt he very end. So you have to sit through an hour and a half of hilariously confusing monologues to get to the good stuff. The sotry doesn't make sense and the acting is ridiculously over the top (this is Children of the Corn part 6, not Schindler's List). Watch parts 2, 3, and 7... those are fun, gory, entertaining, well made (ok 3 and 7's FX (...)) flicks. Avoid this film like the plague.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Avoid this at all costs. This is one of the worst films ever made. Absolute, dreadful (...). For a slasher/horror flick their's not much killing or gore... untilt he very end. So you have to sit through an hour and a half of hilariously confusing monologues to get to the good stuff. The sotry doesn't make sense and the acting is ridiculously over the top (this is Children of the Corn part 6, not Schindler's List). Watch parts 2, 3, and 7... those are fun, gory, entertaining, well made (ok 3 and 7's FX (...)) flicks. Avoid this film like the plague.
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Summary: Huh?!?
Review: Before I watched the film, I already had an excellent plotline going on. First, I rumored that Isaac would return yes, and then try to gether his once followers and basically realizes that He Who Walks Behind The Rows does not exist and his talk was nothing but a bunch of lies, and rebels against his own religion. And in the end he burns the corn down and in the background Of course, it did not go that way at all. The plotline was stupid, about a girl named Hannah who wishes to know the whereabouts of her mother and goes to Gatlin. The plotline didn't make sense, the clues to find her mom went nowhere and truely the writers were probably stumped themselves, even though the clues were going to the hole, she still found out about her mother. And by our future series, we know what was going to happen to Isaac. But the plot could've been better, dont you agree? the whole movie should be a remake. The Gore scenes were weak and the movie felt like a boring History lecture. The only "good" parts of the film was in the ending where they start to kill each other off. And what was up with that old man who had nothing to do with the movie? Seriously, people, my thought on the movie was better then this mess. It was just a movie made to burn off money. Even Stephen King could've shaken his head at this. It simply killed off and made a bad movie out of a wonderful King talent. Too bad that King never directed or wrote the screeplay. For all I know, he could've spiced up the film or gave it a new meaning.
The acting was alright and that alone sorta "Saved" the film, but honestly if this was a COTC film, where the hell were the children? Sure, I saw this odd kid but that was it. The once followers are adults and He is a teenager. For starters, Gabriel is better then that potato that I saw in COTC 3. I'm not trying to flame someone off, but my opinion was that this movie wasnt worth a damn!
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Summary: Best COTC sequel ever!!!!!!!
Review: Children of the Corn 666 was the best COTC sequel ever made! This "true sequel" to COTC1 has Isaac, the leader of the COTC from the first one, coming out of a 19 year old coma to try to build a new generation of soldiers for the COTC`s God, He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Meanwhile, a woman named Hannah has come to Gatlin to find her birth mother. This probing into her past soon gets her involved in a prophecy foretold by Isaac which she has an important role in. Children of the Corn 666 has a suspenseful story (especially to COTC fans), tons of thrills, cool killings, and a surprise ending that absolutley rules! This is a must see for the COTC and horror fan!
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Summary: Its Alright
Review: For A COTC fan like myself, I would say that this film both was great and bad. Before I rented it, I thought that it would have plenty of action and gore/violence. It was dissapointing in some places and whoever made this film looked as if they rushed to finish it and made the film less appealing to others. I liked it, but it wasnt as exciting as the rest and way better then COTC 7. But all in all I loved it!
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Summary: Oh dead God...
Review: For starters, the first forty-five minutes of this film provide us with a very intriguing build-up. Isaac, the leader of the corn god cult in the original movie, finally comes out of his something-teen year long coma, where he is greeted by the surviving members of the cult with whom he had previously slaughted the adults of the small town of Gatlin, Nebraska. However, his friends are now grown, with children of their own, nontheless, they all congregate and prepare for...for...for...the completely and total plotless mess that is the second half of this film. To be perfectly honest, I can barely remember the second half, considering it was so un-descernable that I couldn't make out much of anything that was going on. Apparently, a young kid who plays a magor part throughout much of the movie, is actually "he who walks behind the rows," and he has awaited Isaac's return because he is dissatisfied with Isaac's actions, or something like that. This subplot should've been completely done away with. It makes no sense, is impossible to follow, and is a sure sign of faulty writing, writing that, like with so many other horror films(see Halloween H20 for an even better example) seems to be completely ignorant as to the plotlines of the previous films in the series. Another subplot involves a daughter of one of the grown up cult members, who fufills a prophecy by returning to Gatlin to try and un-cover the mystery of her mother's past. This is another super-dumb sub-plot that only gets in the way of what truly makes this film interesting, the resurrection of Isaac and his cult. In fact, this is the first COTK film to generate any kind of intrigue since part II, by far the best in the series. A much better plotline would've been for the roles of the children and adults to be reversed. Isaac and his followers are adults now, so instead of being kids and murdering their parents as they did in the first and second movie, this time around they could go on a rampage that involved killing their own children. Afterall, it was supposed to be forbidden for one of Isaac's followers to reach the age of eighteen anyway, that's why they killed the adults, therefore that plot could say that these children were "sinful" because of that. Following this, Isaac and his followers could do a mass suicide. Of course this would never actually come to pass, because if it did, it would mean the END of this series, for good. However, as part of the struggle betwwen the characters, the movie could chronicle Isaac and his follwers desperately persuing the surviving children. In this case, the addition of a prophecised traveller who returns to Gatlin would make sense, she could help save a few of the children and stop Isaac. This would have made for a fulfilling plotline that was true to the original movie, as well as providing that all important room for another sequel, that ALL direct-to-video horror movies aim for. Unfortunately, nothing like this ever comes to pass. All we all given is Isaac, his followers, their kids, and town other kids, wondering aimlessly around Gatlin looking for something to do. There ARE murders in this movie, but it seemed to contrived most of the time, like there's people killing one another just for the heck of it, that they, like the characters in the "Sream" movies, know that they're in a horror movie, and kill because they are obligated to. There is NOTHING beyond Isaac's resurrection that holds the movie together, and I doubt if the writers of this film even know what the ending was supposed to mean.
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