Platypuschow Though the Children of the Corn franchise has hardly been ground breaking they have been consistently passable.............just. This one failed to live up to my already low expectations despite the fact it had the best opening advantage from the start.You see Field Of Terror has a very impressive cast and was Eva Mendes very first movie role. It also stars Jason Voorhees himself Kane Hodder, acting legend Fred Williamson, Charmed actor Greg Vaughan, auto erotic asphyxiation aficionado David Carradine and late Arquette acting family member Alexis.Its also apparent that the movie had a higher budget, unless of course it was all spent on that roster.It once again tells the story of the evil children controlled by He Who Walks Behind The Rows! Though this time it gives no explanation how they came to be for the umpteence time.Sadly the plot is really quite poor, the execution is slow and lacking and the whole movie comes across really dull which is one thing I didn't expect. Maybe the Children of the Corn candle is burning out, this is the fifth movie after all. It just surprises me that 5 movies in the film gets a solid cast and fails to utilize them.Definetly a weak link.The Good:Interesting cast ensembleArquettes final sceneThe Bad:Really quite boringNaff endingThings I Learnt From This Movie:If the franchise's movies followed on as a proper series they'd have likely been more successfulNobody taught the lead actress to hold babies heads up

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a great movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. Children of the Corn IV is better. But still this is a great movie. It is one of the scariest movies from 1998. Children of the Corn 666 is better. But still this is a great movie.

Realrockerhalloween Children of the corn actually isn't that bad and even adds back some of the original plot points that made The first three great.The fifth involves a small group of this kids this time who are trying to provide offerings to the corn god by setting traps and killing cross country drivers.The occult book is back even serving a purpose this time and he who walks behind the tiers takes the form of fire. He really shows his strength, might and vengeful power this go around.Ezekiel is the next parter and had a Manson like away over his followers and even convinces a girl to jump into his put on his command. Playing on fragile emotional state of mind and personal drama to keep his followers in line.The music sounds classical and haunting that bears right into your soul.The atmosphere inside the house and barn reminds me a lot of night of the living dead. With the hands teaching through to pull off boards and break glass with stone dead faces.Fifth times the charm.

Boba_Fett1138 The Children of the Corn-series is by no means a great series but still I never quite understood the extremely low ratings all of the movie received here on IMDb. Surely there are far worse genre series and movies to watch out there, though I also must say that this movie is the least one of the series that I've seen so far.Basically the movie adds too little to the long running series. There are no real surprises, when you've seen one or more movies out of the series already. With its story the movie also makes very little attempt to impress. It tries to be more different with its approach and characters this time.Horror movies always have been very popular with teenagers. It's also the reason why there are lots of movies out there that feature teenage characters in the lead roles. Those movies however are also rarely among the best that the genre has to offer. This Children of the Corn entry also felt to need to step in on this horror movie making trend, by throwing in a couple of high school student characters into the Children of the Corn franchise. It's all pretty pointless, since it adds so little new or interesting to the franchise and as a matter of fact only brings the movie down even more.Horror-wise this movie is also obviously lacking. There are only some decent looking effects and gore that can be seen as a redeeming quality. However not quite enough to safe the movie its horror really. Not that any of the Children of the Corn movies have even been really scary or effective with its horror or concept, with the exception of "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice".It's always fun to see how these now famous actors pop up in this horror-movies early in their careers. Guess they don't often want to be remembered at it, as would be the case with Eva Mendes with this movie. Here whole character and her subplot just isn't really powerful or interesting enough to work out. Still I wished she was more in the movie because I definitely preferred her above Stacy Galina but this was probably always because of her looks of course. Also Kane Hodder and David Carradine show up in some small roles and also they feel pretty pointless but this is probably also due to the overall story, which just seemed pretty pointless in general.All in all, another really pointless sequel within the Children of the Corn franchise, that really seemed to run out of good ideas pretty early on in the series already. So do these movies really make that much money to justify all those sequels that got released to it?4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/