Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)

When a woman goes in search of her grandmother in a run down soon to be condemned apartment block she comes across the titular children and is pulled into "He who walks behind the rows" latest scheme.The Children Of The Corn franchise was never exactly great but at least it has character, it had originality and the further in it has gone the more convoluted the plot has become and now it doesn't even resemble its humble beginnings.The premise is dreadful, the script is lacking and with the exception of Michael Ironside (Who is barely in it) the cast aren't exactly doing much to improve it.Not the worst of the franchise but certainly close this is a further example that this is being milked into obscurity and needs laying to rest before it becomes another Witchcraft (1988).The Good:Michael IronsideThe Bad:Messy across the boardCashgrab nothing moreThings I Learnt From This Movie:The Children Of The Corn have 1 weakness, video games!

This is better then the first 6 movie of Children of the Corn. The first 6 movie of Children of the Corn are very scary. This is scarier. THIS THE BEST CHILDREN OF THE CORN MOVIE I HAVE SEEN. it has a great story line. IT ALSO HAS GREAT ACTING. If you are looking for really scary horror movie SEE THIS ONE. IT IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST MOVIES EVER.

I expected nothing from this, except that being a fairly modern film that it would at least spare me 80s denim and bad haircuts xD I don't think I even got that.If it had just been total rubbish with no glimmer of potential, that would be OK, predictable and OK.What really gets me is that this film could have been something, it really wouldn't have taken much at all! Ordinary camera shots, kids behaving evil rather than like mannequins, a heroine character with the ability to realise she's in a horror film not some 'real life drama' and a few other things, this could have been a good straight to video/TV film, it really could have been :( Another thing which bugged me is that the film had something over many of its rivals: the picture quality really wasn't bad. Oftentimes it's this alone which betrays a shoe-string budget movie from a supposedly 'better' picture with more money. SO close to a good film, it's so annoying..COTC films already have the basis for a good creepy feeling, those pesky kids! It was evident here too, there was some good atmosphere when the kiddies were on the prowl, but it was messed up with some very poor direction.Stupid 'ghost' sounds (kids laughing in this case), silly ineffective camera cheap-shots and minutes wasted watching the heroine wander around when it's obvious she will find nothing. These annoy viewers every flipping time, yet once again they're here to annoy COTC: Revelation viewers too. These pathetic acts of film-making sloth knock the film down a few pegs on their own! The kids act like robots in bad threads most of the time, these are self-assured, murderous and downright evil kids from hell without a scrap of empathy. So.. why are they gimping around like second-rate zombies in goofy clothing? For God's sake. *Scowls* The main apartment building doesn't seem inhabited at all, a total ghost town, yet within a few shots it turns out that there's a bunch of people living there. The audience shouldn't have to be faced with such cack-handed bloopers like this. Sloppy, it jarred and brought me straight out of the film. If the crew can't be bothered to put a film together properly, how can they expect anyone to bother to watch it?I was glad when it was over, there's nothing worse than glimpsing what could have been.In short: don't rent, don't buy, don't bother.

I've seen the whole series and this was the worst of the whole thing. The problem is it's so new age based and it ruins the creepy affect of the other films. I really didn't like it. I've seen a lot or horror movies and this just stunk. I really enjoyed all of the films before it but the way this was designed bugged me! It was an apartment building with corn fields right next to it. This movie was an insult to Stephen King's work.