Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)

I like reverend Eli. He's got a style similar to Issac (Part 1) but he's not exactly like Issac. I also like Eli a bit better than Micah (from Part 2). I would say this 3rd film is better than Part 2 but not nearly as good as The Original CotC film.What I didn't like about this film was the campy death scenes really dumb to me. I also disliked near the ending with the Corn Monster - that was going way overboard, getting really stupid and tasteless. The film should have gone from Joshua killing Eli to the two men at the very end with the corn going world wide. Instead they added the terrible in-between Corn Monster - horrible idea but not horror.Other than the stupid Corn Monster and campy death scenes I liked this film fairly well. I was really caught up in the story.7/10

Children of the Corn 3 could've been the best film in the series until the terrible ending. Eli was the creepiest kid from the cornfields, and he really stole the show. The scene where he kills Father Nolan is one of the most disturbing I've seen involving a killer child. All of the actors were excellent and you could really feel for them. People think the change of scenery ruined things, but I thought it was interesting and refreshing. All of the deaths were dreadful, and the victims were innocent, unlike most characters in horror films. Then, came the last ten minutes or so. I think the creators wanted to pay homage to 50's and 60's horror films, but the attempt was futile. Too bad it couldn't have ended with an intense struggle between Eli and Josh. After all, the followers were once gang members, and they could've attacked Josh more. Josh fighting off T-Loc and stabbing him with his own switchblade would've been great. Eli being stabbed once without his bible in front of him. Maybe even have one of his arm's whacked off. He could just regenerate like the corn and be good as new. I suggest watching this film and shutting it off after Eli is destroyed.

The movie opens in Gatlin. Hello Gatlin! It's nice to see you again. Oh, hi corn! Glad you're here too.A man comes out of a trailer, drunk and holding a scythe and starts chasing his son through the corn – for what I can only assume is to chop him up into little pieces and then eat them, or maybe sell them for money. I don't know. Son runs to his little brother who's half his size and gets him to deal with it.This is how we are introduced to the hammy acting skills of Eli and his brother Joshua. Two brothers, who like all kids of Gatlin – kill their father. Thus sending Eli and Joshua to Da Hood.They move in with their foster parents, Eli bringing corn with him – and it's all magic corn that kills people.Eli and Joshua attend school and find themselves starting to grow apart, they're still sharing a bed mind you, and as Joshua proves himself on the Basketball court (where EVERYTHING counts) and makes new friends. Eli gets angry at his brother asking why he's not with him anymore and that he loves him so much and needs to be with him all the time and to never ever leave him. Well he doesn't exactly say that – but his eyes told me that's what he was feeling.So apparently Eli is all evil and I think the movie was trying to push across that he was the devil? They really need to stop coming up with convoluted and over-reaching explanations when crazy religious kids who worship some corn demon works just fine.My favourite death was of the foster mother, who tripped over a pole and impaled her skull with a piece of pipe. Awesome. The ick factor goes up slightly when you think that one of her last memories on earth were of her super young foster son tonguing her ear. Nice.As Eli starts to convert the city kids to his cracked way of thinking and to start killing off their parents – Joshua heads back to Gatlin (Yay! Gatlin) which must be just around the corner from Chicago, to save the freaking day.While no where near as crappy as Children of the Corn 2: Final Sacrifice, this only rates slightly above in terms of inventive deaths and gore. And really, set in the city? It's about CORN movie people; a 3 row corn 'field' at the back of an abandoned warehouse is not creepy at all. It's weird.Charlize Theron is an extra in this movie. She must be so proud.Next up, Children of the Corn 4: Space Corn.

I didn't really have a beef with this one. We have two brothers.Eli and Joshua.After their father disappears,they move to the city to meet their new guardians.They get sent to a religious school,ran by Father Nolan.Over time,we find out that Eli isn't sane in the head.He starts growing a corn field in an abandoned warehouse to summon He Who Walks Behind The Rows,and controls the other students in the school by bugs in the food.Josh joins forces with his friends Maria,Malcom and Father Nolan to stop Eli and destroy H.W.W.B.T.R.The plot itself is okay.And it later explains how the corn spread.We also learn a bit more about how and why they killed the adults.The death scenes weren't too bad.The one con I did see is how cheesy and bad the effects were.The corn demon looked like a wax figure and when it lifted people up,they looked like dolls.The other effects looked like some Adobe accident on crack.Other than that,it wasn't that bad.