Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good concept, poorly executed.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I was underwhelmed by the original Children of the Corn (1984) film, I expected something a lot more impressive and walked away very dissapointed.It took 8yrs before it got a sequel and the movie more or less picks up from the last. All the corpses of the residents have been found but the psychotic religious fanatic children haven't changed at all and once again set about purging the adults.It comes down to a reporter and his son to stop them, but though it makes for an interesting follow up the movie itself isn't very interesting.A couple of decent deaths and a passable premise don't make up for just how generic it feels. Nothing stands out, everything feels rather copy and pasted.The Final Sacrifice tries to flesh out the mythology and background of "He who walks behind the rows" but in doing so kind of damages what they'd already built. Sometimes simplicity is the key.If you liked the first I'd say this is essential viewing, if you didn't then take into consideration that this is more of the same.The Good:One death scene was greatFollows on nicelyThe Bad:Simply fails to entertainSquanders potentialThings I Learnt From This Movie:Rifling through a persons belongings left in a car is suitable small town etiquetteBINGO!

I was fifteen when I first saw Children of the Corn 2. And I loved it. Then again, I hadn't seen much horror at the time. However, over twenty years later and I find myself realising how little I knew about decent cinema when I was a teenager.Don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed Children of the Corn 2 yet again, but now I found myself laughing heartily all the way though. Seriously, some comedies don't make me laugh as much as this film did (now, in the cold light of my adulthood).If you can ignore the use of the word 'final' in the title (there are about four more Children of the Corn films afterwards) and be prepared not to take this story that seriously, you may just enjoy some of the most ludicrous death scenes ever committed on the elderly. The story follows a boy and his single parent father, coming to the nearby town in search of a story as to what happened to the adults who were now found to have been murdered by the children of the town. Once this pair arrive, both instantly fall in love with beautiful women and discover that a young lad by the name of Micha, leads a group of local children to stare intently at adults before dropping houses on them. If you watch this movie you will realise it has some of the most intense staring ever committed to film. Besides the beautiful women and staring brats, there's also a wise old native American, some 'Predator-vision' from the monster (or 'he who hides behind the rows') and a sheriff who tries to kill people like he was a Bond villain.How this film was supposed to be taken seriously, I'll never know. Just know what you're getting before you watch this. Take the biggest pinch of salt you'll ever take, suspend your disbelief like you never have before and sit back and enjoy one of the most daftly funny horror films ever made.

Apparently it's not a good idea to sit in the nosebleed section of a church; black contact lenses lend evil powers to anyone who wears them; you should never climb under your house in search of your kitty, especially if evil-looking children are lurking about. These are just some of a few lessons to be taken from the sequel nobody expected that snowballed into the franchise nobody wanted, "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice." Picking up after the events of the first film, a tabloid-journalist and his teenage son are passing through a small neighboring town of Gatlin, Nebraska shortly after those corn-husking little munchkins laid it to waste. Looking for his big break, the father/journalist decides to stay in town for a while. After merely a few days in town, he receives his fair-share of white-man's guilt from the resident Native America, uncovers a moldy corn conspiracy (a plot point which goes virtually nowhere) and plows the field of a innkeeper. Meanwhile, his son attempts to sow some seeds of his own with the girl-next-door who appears to the only one under the age of 18 in town who isn't under the trance of the mysterious maze.It must be said that by no means is "Children of the Corn II" a particularly great film. Like the first, it's pretty basic and predictable. It seems as if the script for the first film was tweaked just slightly to concoct a sequel and it shows with plot-holes the size of Nebraska (see what I did there?). Director David Price -- whose resume is as equally unimpressive as the film's script -- loves to inject a lot of ridiculous gore into the film, but forsakes logic in doing so. You'll see corn husks slashing throats, a nosebleed that somehow turns into an earache and a house falling on a woman who doesn't seem to understand she can either try crawling out or hide in between the beams. Nevermind that, though. You don't come here for logic, and Price knows that. With his made-for-TV movie cinematography, you can be rest assured you'll know exactly what you're getting into within the first five minutes of the film.But what about the cast? Kudos must go out to Ryan Bollman who does his best to look as menacing as possible as the leader of the kiddy cult. Someone ground that kid! On the other side of the coin, you have Terence Knox, resembling what would happen if Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin gave birth to a bloated baby. Knox seems to be apathetic about the whole thing, as best evidenced by his reaction to the death of a friend by the end of the film. He steps it up a notch when he is caught sinning rather vigorously by his son, but this scene is so uninteresting, you'll feel the same sort of apathy toward it as the actor does the film. I guess you just can't expect Academy Award material with these films, but would it hurt to have actors who care about more than cashing in their paychecks carrying a film? When all is said and done, in spite of its glaring flaws, "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice" is easily the best sequel in the "Children of the Corn" series, but that's not saying much. When you consider the films that followed in its wake, it's almost a back-handed compliment. Then again, the first "Children of the Corn" wasn't ground-breaking cinema by any stretch of the imagination, so the fact that any sequel to it can deliver the most basic entertainment is a miracle in and of itself. To that end, "The Final Sacrifice" is a rather schlocky but suitable guilty-pleasure follow-up. If you've suffered through enough "Amityvilles" or "Howlings" then there is no reason you can't sit through this one as well.

**SPOILERS** Long awaited sequel to the 1984 Stephen King home on the range or cornfield horror flick "Children of the Corn" that took nine years in the making.In this corny film the children now eight years older and looking as if they didn't age a day are discovered by the local police and news reporters after their parents were found slaughtered in a basement in the now almost deserted town of Glatin. Instead of trying to find the children's, who should have been the #1 suspects in their murder, parents killers the children are shipped off to Hemingford to be adopted by the unsuspecting people there. In no time at all deaths starts occurring at Hemingford with the elders, that's those over 20 years old, being targeted by an unknown force of nature that happens to be the zombie like children themselves.To make the movie interesting we also have a parent & son dispute involving supermarket tabloid newsman John Garrett, Terrance Knox, and his bratty and foul mouth son Danny, Paul Scherrer. Both Pop & Jr. don't see eye to eye in their very shaky relationship with each other that involves Poppa leaving Momma and taking Jr. with him when Jr was only an infant. This soon ends when Danny on his way back to New York runs into sexy and recently arrived, to Hemmingford, Lacy Hellerstat, Christie Clark. Almost overnight Danny drops is bratty and foul mouth persona, as well as hair color, and goes back home to daddy just so he can be with Lacy who's more then willing to jump into the hey with him.Back to the children of the corn their instructed by their leader the blow-hard and wild eyed Micah, Ryan Bollman, to make ready the ultimate sacrifice in human blood of the elders in town by the time the harvest moon arrives. We also have a strange side-plot in the film involving the town physician Dr, Richard Appley played by Ed Gradey, who's a dead ringer for the former NY State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, and Sheriff Blaine, Wallace Mark, who are both involved with the dirty goings on with the town's corn harvest. The two had secretly stored away the corn for over a year that resulted in it becoming infected with the deadly Aflatoxin virus! That's what happened to the corn harvest when both Blaine & Appley left it hidden and didn't burn it! The rotten and infected corn is now slowly infecting the entire town which in the end will kill far more people then the children of the corn ever will!***SPOILER*** It's only when university professor and Native American Frank Redbear who's actually gray, Ned Romero, shows up later in the movie that it finally starts to make some kind of sense. Redbear soon gets the totally mixed up John Garrett to go alone with him in his attempt to put an end to the children of the corn and their deranged leader Micah in carrying out their evil plan; That's in them killing everyone over 20 in town. Redbear in an effort to stop the harvest moon human sacrifice gets a hold of a mechanical corn picker and steam rolls through the cornfield picking apart the crazed and demonic Micah and turning him into human cornmeal. That's before he himself finally expired from an arrow shot into his gut by one of Micah's followers.In the end we finally get to see the mysterious "One who walks in the Rows" the real power behind Micah who happens to be some kind giant gopher or prairie dog who only works by night and underground.Despite all the blood letting and violence in the movie it's only good for laughs and nothing else. The spaced out and zombie like children of the corn are so ridicules and unbelievable that you can't take them seriously for a second even if you try to. With all the hysterics in the film the one who really takes the cake, and steals every scene that he's in, is the local preacher Rev. Holling, John Bennes. Rev. Hollings is so off the wall and at the same time comical that it's hard to believe that he, in his constant talks and sermons about and against the evils of sex and fornication, could take himself seriously! Which in fact makes Bennes' "serious" acting that of an Academy Award caliber performance.