Admirable film.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Just because Stephen King wrote it ... doesn't mean its any good! And that is pretty much what I feel about all the corny movies of children taking over the world ... didn't happen in the 60s, and it didn't happen in all of these movies either. Filming content was very good. Editing was? Dialogue had a few ridiculous mistakes. He that walks behind the rose? When has anyone ever seen a rose walk that didn't wind up in the madhouse?! The main character could have escaped numerous times, but did not. The storyline was very predictable. It was nice to see Nancy Allen again, she was so good in Carrie, and her performance in this was pretty good also.Hey, maybe its just me ... I have a huge problem with short stories being stretched into two hours of not much else to say. I found The Langoliers and The Stand to be a total bore. Ditto when it comes to The Tommyknockers, Storm Of The Century, and Riding The Bullet.

Hannah Martin (an appealing performance by the pretty Natalie Ramsey) returns to her remote rural hometown of Gatlin, Nebraska to find out who her mother is. While in Gatlin, malicious religious cult leader Isaac (John Franklin in fine sinister form) awakens from his coma and plans to use Hannah as a pawn in his quest to fulfill his evil prophecy. Director Kari Skogland, working from a dark and devious script by Franklin and Tim Sulka, relates the twisted story at a steady pace, adds a few nice unnerving touches (for example, the clock in the rundown hospital that's stuck in place), delivers a handy helping of bloody gore, creates and maintains a strong spooky atmosphere of pervasive dread and unease, and concludes the movie on a bold ambiguous note. The weird kids are genuinely creepy while the ending manages to pull off a couple of surprising twists. The solid acting by the capable cast keeps the film on track: Alix Koromzay as loyal disciple deputy Cora, Paul Popowich as handsome and charismatic dissident Gabriel, Stacy Keach as wry boozy physician Doc Michaels, Nancy Allen as the bitter Rachel, and William Prael as muttering nut Jake. Richard Clabough's golden-hued cinematography provides a striking bright look. Terry Huud's shuddery score hits the spine-tingling spot. A cool fright feature.

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

After my parents told me to rent the first Children of the Corn, I was skeptical about it and, wow, I got hooked. When I also heard there was 6 more sequels, I grew even more interested. Isaac was killer in the first movie, and I was wondering if they had made a sequel with him in it....bingo, they did. I bought this movie from Blockbuster and I popped it in the DVD player and watched it. OK...my opinion on it?...kind of lame. It's very sad to see a movie with such a promising title to it, and have it fall into pieces. Seriously guys, is this "Hannah's Return"? or "Isaac's Return"?. All I saw in it was Hannah Hannah Hannah, I mean....where's Isaac in all of this? a few shots here and there?. The acting was mediocre in some retrospects; John did a great job with Isaac's role in my opinion. Gabriel reminded me of a pretty boy, trying to get his hands on some girl. Ugh, but..being a fan of COTC, I did enjoy the fact they shamelessly tried to even make another sequel and it's still sitting on my shelf. One other thing I didn't like was the fact Isaac was in a coma for 19 years...then barely has time to acknowledge himself, and just dies at the end. This could've turned out to be a great movie....if it weren't for the fact these people didn't even try hard enough.5/10 stars.