Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

An action-packed slog

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

A for effort but the low but budget and mistakes makes flat overall. They did pretty good building suspense and there are some downright good parts. But overall it felt thrown together. Continuity is really bad. Kid enters into obviously late season corn field and then walks out of mid summer corn field twice. Cloudy days are suddenly bright sunny days. Weird flashback scene or dream sequence out of nowhere with no context.

For all intents and purposes, The fields presents itself as a farm style horrorflick.... it's NOT! The movie starts out with no lead in to these characters so that you can care about them or even know their motivation, but here's a little boy watching a dad point a gun at his mother's head! The mom has the cops come, the dad's not arrested because apparently the sheriff is the mothers farther??? That's convenient, and mom's having a talk with her mom about where she's going to send her son until they straighten things out... to the father's parents, because at least there she doesn't have to worry about him being touched inappropriately! WAIT..WHAT?!?!Her dad's the sheriff.. this movie just started... what is going on please?!?! And that's the tone of the whole movie, there's TONS of filler, and then they drop bombs almost in whispers, like they don't matter, and that was never brought up again! They sent him to his Dad parents farm, where his fear of the things he's hearing and seeing about the Manson family on tv and radio is being backed up by insane hippie drifters whacked out on SOMETHING who are terrorizing the family, and likely? Stole and killed the 2 family dogs and a young woman, whose body the boy finds in the corn fields. Gramps keeps having what looks like heart attacks during these nights of terror, but no one thinks to check him out, or take him to the hospital... the hippies seem to be led by a helper on a milk farm next door who creeps out the kid, we don't know why but he seems to know a lot about the kid and be friendly with him at first, then all of a sudden the kid freaks out on him! The whole thing, and ESPECIALLY the ending is just BIZARRE... it leaves you wondering "What did I just watch?" And in the end they just wrapped up the pieces, but honestly I'm not sure i understood what happened. The kid made the movie, everyone else's acting was AWFUL .. the cinematography was beautiful, and there was enough to keep me there once I started watching, I just wish I hadn't started!

This movie was scaring the crap out of me for the first 3/4 of the movie. Think Children of the Corn with the most creepy building atmospheric music you have ever heard, until you are cringing on the edge of the couch KNOWING you will have nightmares....And then it's all crap.The movie has no monsters in it. No aliens in the corn, like Signs. No Children of the Corn psycho devil kids. There's maybe a hint of a loose gang of hippie chick Manson groupie wanna-bes.The most that's done is windows are broken.I was expecting a major climax, and no, no such thing. Instead, the maybe-psycho hangs himself, after throwing some rocks through windows. That's it, roll credits.Cloris is adorable and easily the best character. Think Malcolm in the Middle Grandma with a wicked nasty biker mouth on her. HILARIOUS!!! That's the only point, plus the creepy music, to bother watching, which I did on Netflix.

This is not a horror film! It is a very good film, but it is not at all a horror film as it is widely promoted. It is a drama-thriller film.This film reminds me of the classic 70's early 80's thriller films, but it is sometimes funny too, with the unexpected Cloris L. very rude comments and behavior. She is magnificent in her role as a ruthless outspoken dirty mouth granny.The boy shows quite a lot of talent as an actor.The film is viewed from his perspective as he sees the events unfold in front of him at his parents and grandparents place.In brief, the film it is a bit slow (but not boring at all) and worth it to watch. It has some good scary and creepy moments.Enjoy it!