Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)

Okay - Isaac died in the first film? NO! If you remember he came back from death in a supernatural way to kill Malachi - because "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" wants Malachi. (This makes Isaac one of the Undead I would guess). Apparently not long after that, Isaac ended up in 19 year coma somehow and that is where we begin our story with "Isaac's Return". What is aggravating? The totally blew a golden opportunity to make this film (almost) as good as the first film with the idea behind Isaac returning. This film is a total waste of a great idea.Yes this film is bad. The ONLY thing good about it is Isaac - that's it! The rest of the film is crap. What is really dumb to me? "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" killing Isaac in the end - that just blows.And the idea of Hannah Montana being the only one to save them from Isaac throughout the film (until the ending) really stinks. And this dumb teenage kid being "HE" or "Thee" is totally dumb - NOT what "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" is at all! Isaac DID the bidding of "He" in the first film and there is NO reason for "HE" to be mad at Isaac at all. What is wrong with writers today? Are they not thinkers too? 3/10

After 19 years, beautiful Natalie Ramsey (as Hannah Martin) decides to go back to Gatlin, Nebraska. She's been having visions of someone being cut to death in the cornfield. She wants to find her biological mother. Of course, this leads to danger for Ms. Ramsey. In town, she gets off to a bad start by driving her car into the cornfield. This has never been a good move. Checked out by heavy-smoking doctor Stacy Keach (as Michaels), Ramsey discovers original "Children of the Corn" star John Franklin (as Isaac Chroner) is a comatose patient in the hospital. Uh-oh...The ending of the prior film, plus the "666" in the title, suggests a completely different story than this one. Possibly, filmmakers forgot four sequels and went back to the first one; continuity is not one of this film series' strong suits. All the new characters introduced in the last film and the devilish tot with the glowing eyes becomes big boy "Isaac" or, possibly, a new fetus. No doubt, this story's promising copulation between Ramsey and handsome Paul Popowich (as Gabriel) will be forgotten, too. By now, someone should have tried to tie these films together; they are confusing and inconsistent...With clocks, corridors and camera angles, director Kari Skogland and his crew do give it some style, though.**** Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (10/19/99) Kari Skogland ~ Natalie Ramsey, Paul Popowich, John Franklin, Nancy Allen

I think it's a bit stupid of me to have watched the first Children Of The Corn, no others. Then buy this one to watch. So i don't really have any idea what happened in the others. But anyway, i did find this movie had quite a good story line. I remembered Issac from the first one, boy has he changed. He looks like a old man and he's been in that coma what? 19 years? he shouldn't be looking like that then.. I'm not very good at writing reviews, but i used to love the Children Of The Corn movies so thought i'd do a quick review on this one. I brought it quite recently actually. I watched the first one when i was pretty young. So yep. But overall i do like this movie, i like the plot, i like the characters, i don't know. It's just pretty cool.

A young girl named Hannah decides to go to Gatlin to find out who her mother is. She crashes her car into the cornfield along the way and goes to the local hospital for medical attention. It is there that we see Isaac, the little preacher boy from the original Children of the Corn. He is in a coma, but when she enters the room he awakens after nineteen years of sleep (since the original). Majority of the film is spent showing Isaac building up the next generation of brainwashed children and teens, including his own son Matt, to carry out "he who walks behinds the rows" prophecy. Also Hannah searching for her mother while finding herself attracted to one of the young people Gabriel, who has a few secrets of his own.We find out that Hannah's parents were Rachel and Amos, two of the older "children" from the original film. If you recall there was that girl at the end of that first film who tried to kill Peter Horton's character. So they tie that into '666' really nicely. We also see in this film that Gatlin hasn't changed much in nineteen years. A few adults do live there now like the doctor and a cop, but it is still fairly deserted and creepy as ever. To me, Children of the Corn 666 falls flat. It isn't as good as good as parts 1-5 because of it's realism. Children of the Corn films always had a STRONG supernatural presence which made them cheesy and fun. The threat in this film for Hannah is a group of brainwashed teenagers and not-so-young Isaac who believe that he is "he who walks behind the rows". The one thing this sequel has going for it is the continuation from the first film with regards to the baby Rachel and Amos were going to have. You get the sense in this film that Isaac is just a crazy person, while in the original you knew that there was a supernatural force guiding him to do those awful things. COTC 666 It isn't a terrible film, but wasn't nearly as good as the previous installments. There are too many twists and turns to the plot that leave me spinning in confusion.4/10