Children of the Cornball
One must pity poor John Franklin. Having failed to find his niche in motion pictures, he (in apparent desperation) returns to COTC as Isaac, who awakens from a 19-year-long coma. It is also apparent that the years have not been kind to John; though he still has the stature of a child, his visage is is that of a middle-aged man. It is also clearly evident that his acting skills have not grown either, as he awkwardly spews out some of the silliest dialogue ever concocted for the screen. However, even a skilled actor would find it nearly impossible to do much with a script as dreadful as this. The greatest mystery here is how a talented actor like Stacy Keach could have allowed himself to become involved in a project as lousy as this one. However, his character (a drunken physician) is mercifully killed off fairly early; after watching this junk, many viewers will find themselves strongly tempted to start drinking, as well. The rest of the supporting cast are a sorry lot, with the...
Hideous.
I am a fan of the original Children of the Corn, and for the life of me I can't figure out how the five sequels could be so poor, for one, and for two, so poor, and yet have so many fans. I'm dumbfounded. This movie is terrible! I can't find the words to express how truly awful this movie is.
It begins with a young girl, Hannah, who is traveling back to Gatlin to find her birth mother. (Incidentally, they have the location of Gatlin all wrong -- It's not the original town.) On the way, her car breaks down and some old man, who has absolutely nothing to do with the movie, reads her some strange passage out of the Bible, then mysteriously disappears.
She gets to Gatlin, and we find that Isaac didn't die like he, well, DID in the first one, but rather has simply been in a deep coma for the last twenty-odd years. Hannah's mere touch awakens him, of course. And here's Isaac, once again, to wreak havoc on the sleepy little town of Gatlin as he once did before. But...
A little better than 5
Well, looks like I'm about done with this. The past two viewing tend to suggest that I'd have been better off if I'd stopped with 4, but then I would just spent the remainder of my life wondering what might have been. Much like in 5, I don't know if their is anything too terribly grating or stunningly incompetent about the film as a whole, it's just rather uneventful and fairly dull. As you may have surmised, Isaac is back, and he's still a jerk. This is kinda fun, but John Franklin's mere presence isn't worth too much, and he really doesn't do much of anything. Another plus is that the film is occasionally slightly atmospheric. Only occasionally, and only very slightly, but it's somethin'. Unfortunately, CotC 666 lacks the laugh out loud hilarity of the better portions of 2 and 3, and the slightly intriguing plot and decent gore of 4. So, we aren't left with much. The climax is passably involving, and amusingly nonsensical, but overall it's a long journey to nowhere. That,...
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