Powerful

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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

Another winner in a series that knows how to innovate and keep it fresh. Children of the Corn III are two kids who bring the country to the Urban city.Daniel Cerny picks up the mantel as the new minister for he who walks behind the Rowe and recruits a new harvest of kids to kill their parents and worship his demoness.What impressed me was to see the risks they were willing to take with installment by incorporating a metropolis, a fuel out between good & evil and finally revealing what he who walks behind the rowes looks like. Even though the sock puppet looks dated compared to chi today.The storyline is a little cheesy with all the kids wearing black to represent how bad they became, but it makes up for it in characters you care about, the music, atmosphere and scares.It isn't a gore fest like some of the others and has a low body count, but it keeps you entertain all the way through no matter what ratings say.Now The only complaint I have is who is Eli? Where did He come from? His brother said they found him in the field and a book he uses as his power source?Other then those details it felt like a great entry.

I didn't expect much when I clicked on this movie on Netflix but I do have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised. Really what kept my interest is the fantastic acting of the kid who played Eli. He gives the character a lot of intensity however there are a few details in the movie that costs it a few stars mainly the ending where at one point I thought I was watching an episode of robot chicken it was that bad. Also the way the story ended seemed a little rushed or something as if the writers were in a hurry to put together something and the effects team had no budget but aside from that if you enjoyed the original I would definitely recommend this one

Children of the Corn III ** (out of 4) Josh (Ron Melendez) and his younger brother Eli (Daniel Cerny) move to Chicago from Nebraska after their father mysteriously disappears. As it turns out, Eli is in a cult with the corn and other forces and soon he's taking the kids of Chicago in plans to turn them against the world. This third film in the series was the first to go straight to video but it looks like it might have originally been meant for theaters. The production values are pretty good and nothing about it looks like something that would go straight to video. The movie is certainly better than the first one but I'm not sure how many people, outside of die-hard horror nuts like myself would actually want to watch it. I think the best thing they did was move the action to Chicago and put the cornfield in an abandoned building. Having the Amish kid stalk the streets and tough guys of Chicago made for a lot of fun as two cultures mixed and often did battle. The screenplay has a rather nice story even if what the heck Eli's trying to do never really makes too much sense. Some of the special effects are pretty bad but some are good like a few scenes where some adults throw up some insects. Performances are decent for this type of movie, which is all we can ask for. Apparently this was Charlize Theron's first movie but I wasn't able to spot her.