Wonderful Movie

Such a frustrating disappointment

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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.

With 7 titles and 1 remake under it's belt, everybody knows that the Children of the Corn series has run it's course and is now being kept alive in attempts to bleed it for a little more money. That's not to say that they didn't try in Revelation. I watched this on Netflix expecting another painful installment like Isaac's Return but this showed slight improvement.They attempted to breathe new life into the series by trading the cornfields of small-town Nebraska for a dilapidated apartment building in small-town Nebraska; going for more of a haunted house feel than an evil children feel. The story line had potential but, unfortunately, it didn't live up. And here's why:The Children: The children are really what the movie is always about. But for some reason, the small but menacing children of the series are swapped out for more of a generally weird brand of child. The "stand there and stare" move gets less creepy the more it is used (and it's used A LOT) and starts becoming more annoying than anything. The only thing scary about the "main" evil child, Abel, is his Amish-style haircut. Although their uncanny ability to teleport makes for some creepy moments, I never really found myself being scared of the kids.The Supporting Characters: Almost every single character that we meet in the movie serves one purpose; to give the kids someone to kill while the main character, Jamie, tries to figure out what's going on. The few supporting characters who don't meet a grisly end pop up at random times during the movie until they're needed to progress the movie along.The Story: While the story has never been a strong point of the Children of the Corn series, Revelations tries a little too hard to make the story compelling. It begins with Jamie trying to find her missing grandmother. It then turns into a trip to the past where we learn that her grandmother was the sole survivor of a mass cult suicide and, in an odd reverse-butterfly effect type of motivation, the children return to kill Jamie since her grandmother was supposed to die and Jamie should not have even been born. It's a rather complex plot line for a run-of-the-mill horror movie.The Main Character: Although we follow Jamie as she frantically searches for her grandmother, we don't really feel any connection to her. Very little background is given to her character besides the fact that she lives in California and talks to her grandmother regularly. The casting director did a good job of bringing Claudette Mink on for the movie as her good looks tend to distract you from the sub-par script that they handed her. She does a good job as the concerned grand-daughter but when the action starts up, she starts to overact. You see this most obviously towards the end when she's attacked by evil corn stalks that remind many horror movie aficionados of the "tree rape" scene of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead."In the end, it was a half-way decent movie. It certainly won't win any awards but it's just creepy enough to hold your attention. And at brisk 82 minutes, it goes by pretty quick.

I was at the video store and while I swore off seeing any more of the Children of the Corn sequels, I have to admit that I was intrigued when I saw the cover of Children of the Corn: Revelation, it looked like an actual scary movie. Who knew? It might've been, right? I think somewhere on it's own, it might have been a good horror flick, but it got to be too cheesy and the lines were just silly and predictable.A girl, Jamie, is looking for her grandmother, since she hasn't returned her phone calls and has moved into a condemned building. But when she bumps into two creepy looking kids, she begins to wonder what's going on. She goes to the police, but they tell her to wait a day to make sure her grandmother isn't just out, she does so, but ends up finding out more with a certain cult and it's mysterious murders going on in the building she's living in.It was very predictable and incredibly corny, if it didn't have the Children of the Corn title, it could've worked a little better, because the cornstalks were just a little too tacky. But I think some horror fans might get a certain kick out of it, or not, judging by the rating of this film, I think everyone else agrees with me.2/10