Good movie but grossly overrated

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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

I believe this was the first direct to video sequel in the "Children Of The Corn" series. Direct to video sequels are rarely good and it makes sense for a series that was never good to begin with. It's amazing how ridiculous this film gets. The plot is that two boys from the town where the first two movies took place have been adopted. The younger boy grows corn which somehow makes him mind control a bunch of other kids, although they don't really make that clear. This movie actually features people being horribly mutilated by cornstalks.There's this one priest characters who I swear looks like John Cleese. Kind of ironic considering he's a critic of religion. The dumbest part is at the very end where they use these bad special effects to show the kid throwing fireballs (!) at his brother with his scythe. It gets much dumber as we seem to see the thing that's been hiding underground the past movies. It looks like some giant mole rat with multiple appendages. The effects are horrendous and the story is just stupid. *1/2

I picked this up at my local Pound Store recently, and thought what the hell? Freaky corn children in the big smoke was sure to have some interesting results!And it did.Surprisingly, COTC3 was quite a well made, FX filled, darkly comic flick that had 2 great looking leads, Daniel Cerny and Ron Melendez, who pulled off the freaky and the funny quite well.Daniel Cerny, as the main devil child, was just fantastic! Probably one of the best evil child roles I've seen.For fans of classic 80's horror, you should check this out. There is still plenty of gore fun in the corn, and then some!Worth the watch!

Third film based on the Stephen King short story tries something different, as the two surviving cult members(who are brothers) from Gatlin Nebraska are adopted by a couple from Chicago, where the younger brother becomes possessed by the evil creature from behind the rows of corn, and plants its seeds of evil throughout the high school, in his attempts to restart the cult, and sacrifice more lives to it.Attempts to make the premise "hipper" by taking it to the city fall utterly flat in this equally pointless, utterly unconvincing film, that beats an absurd idea to death one more time. Sadly, the series didn't end here, but my interest in watching any more sequels sure did!

"Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest" is a somewhat tacky and unnecessary sequel to the moderately successful Stephen King adaptation and its slightly under-rated sequel.In the film, two youths from Gatlin (the setting of the first two films) are taken in by a yuppie couple in Chicago. The older of the two fits in relatively well, but the younger has plans of his own. Planting a corn field in the abandoned property next door, he creeps out his adoptive parents and eventually converts the entire teenage population to his maze worshipping cult.Despite a predictable plot that seems to be missing chunks (at what point did Eli win over his peers?), dodgy special effects and wooden performances by its relatively unknown cast, the film is moderately enjoyable for what it is. If you want to see some brutal and over-the-top death scenes committed by vegetation, then "Children of the Corn III" hardly disappoints. Elsewhere, however, the film comes up short, and that's all there really is to it.The film was dumped in theaters briefly in 1994 before being thrust into complete oblivion, making room for four direct-to-video sequels and a made-for-TV remake. Look closely, and you'll spot Charlize Theron in her very first role as an extra.