Children of the Corn: Genesis

Plot synopsis:
Tim and Allie's car breaks down and they attempt to find shelter in a remote desert farmhouse after becoming lost. A strange Charles Manson-like character, Preacher (Billy Drago), allows them inside to use the phone. The couple find out they won't be able to get tow service until the following day. Preacher and his Ukrainian wife Oksana also known as Helen let them stay the night with strict orders to be gone by morning, and not wander "where you are not invited." They find their hosts weird but don't think much of it and head to bed after dinner. Allie wanders off in the middle of the night after using the outhouse, and discovers the garage has been converted into a cult worshipping church. She then stumbles upon a crumbling outbuilding where she hears faint cries coming from a child.
Allie runs back and tells Tim what she witnessed, but at first he doesn't believe her. He agrees to confront the Preacher about the voices, but falls into a hypnotized trance while viewing digital photos in Preacher's camera. The child then walks into the house and plants a seed inside Allie and disappears before being seen. Tim and Allie try to leave the house, but get locked in the house by a supernatural force. Allie calls the police, but is unsure if she got through as the line gets cut off halfway. Allie falls asleep and dreams about being murdered by children in a cornfield. Allie and Tim wake up to headlights flashing into the room and a cop arrives to check on the house but is thrown into the air and killed by the supernatural force. After witnessing this Tim insists on answers from the Preacher, finding out that the supernatural force needs children to survive and has already planted a seed inside Allie.
Come morning, a parcel delivery driver drops things off at the house. He agrees to give Tim and Allie a ride into town. Tim has a bad feeling about the driver so he takes off with Allie in the abandoned police vehicle instead. They get to the main road. The child in the outbuilding then kills Helen and psychokinetically causes Tim and Allie to have a car accident, in which Tim dies. The parcel driver approaches the accident and brings Allie back to the farmhouse where a group of children and their mothers greet her. In a trance, she sits next to the little child in the outbuilding and begins to sing to him. The child is then seen playing with a doll, then drops it on the floor, which causes the cop's corpse to fall from the sky onto the ground.

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Review:
'Genesis', the 8th film in the series, is quite good for the first half.
Intriguing storyline involving a couple's car breaking down in the California desert, and they seek refuge from a weird preacher and his hottie Ukrainian wife.
There's a child locked up in a shed behind the house, and it seems like a bizarre entity doesn't want the couple to leave the Preacher's house.
For the first 40 minutes or so, the film tells a good, straightforward creepy story.
Yeah, that was hilariously bad, and makes a film that did a good effort of covering its' low production values for the whole film look EXTREMELY cheap.
A young couple spend the night at a preacher's home, and soon begin to suspect that he has a child locked up in his barn.
Pretty much the nicest thing I can say about this film is that it features Billy Drago, who is a decent actor and under-appreciated.
The makeup department did a good job making him look old and rustic, and he he has much less of an exotic look about him than usual.That positive note aside, I am a bit confused what is going on with the Children of the Corn franchise.
Some efforts are made to connect it to the series by attempting to offer a back story (presumably why this one is called "Genesis").
But it could be changed and not affect the overall story at all.Obviously by stamping it with the Children of the Corn label, more people will rent the film and possibly even buy it.
There has been a spate of movies of late it seems that want to take us back to the origins or beginning of a successful series.
Well in this movie they're still grungy-looking and trying their best to look evil.A man and woman are stranded out in the middle of nowhere because their car broke down.
At first they are refused help, and as she is storming off in anger and frustration while her boyfriend is trying his best to placate her, the woman mentions her pregnancy and the preacher --being a man of God-- takes pity and invites them in.Things are a bit strained once inside; the couple are trying to have polite conversation seated across from the Preacher but he's oddly uncommunicative.
She takes the man to a phone in another room and charges him almost everything he had in his wallet to use it while imploring him not to tell the Preacher.After a meal where the Preacher continued his silent ways and it was time to go to their rooms the Preacher breaks his silence and tells the couple in essence to respect his privacy; that they shouldn't go wandering around beyond the outhouse in back.
She sort of towers over him like Wonder Woman dressed in shorts and combat boots so I don't blame him.Things begin to happen; psychokinetic events.
Genesis difference very much from the standard CotC movies, you will not find much corn and even less of children, almost no existent, and no Gatlin town, actually they are pretty much in the same cabin the whole movie, so it's different, doesn't have the CotC feel either, more like a possessed themed movie.
But all that being said, the tension has probably never been better within the series, good acting (Billy Drago steels the show, possible the best performance of within all CotC movies), good camera-work and good effects, so it's a good crafted movie but, it's probably not what I wanted from a CotC movie.
About the title Genesis, I didn't get much about that, it doesn't tell anything about the creation or beginning of anything, and towards the end I felt the plot was going nowhere, and when talking about the end, I didn't liked the ending at all.
Overall, Children of the Corn: Genesis was better than expected, but confusing and different..
Movie review:Remember in 1984 a scary movie came out called "Children of the Corn"?
The movie starts out with a man returning from the military to a dead family that was killed by the kids.
The movie is about a couple (Tim Rock & Kelen Coleman) that break down traveling in the middle of nowhere.
When Tim (character name, real creative) finds that they cannot get the car fixed until the next day, they decide to stay with Preacher and his nymphomaniac wife (Barbara Nedeljakova, who was in both Hostel movies for some reason).
Aside from one very funny line between the couple, this movie doesn't have much good going for it.
One dream showing a corn field, which there is absolutely no explanation or reason for (sound familiar?), the usual demon child, whacko cult family....all clichés are present.
It had a really weak ending and nothing going for it except good technical aspects..
here a sequel 10 years after the last sequel and a remake that came out two years ago.The best they could in the 10 years breaks, this movie was really dull, there was not much going at all, the Girlfriend and boyfriends they crash and they stop and talk for the whole 94% of movie and the scenes just drags on.The scare scene in this , so badly done, that you laugh and say come on!, there no atmosphere in this at all, everything was falt and plot was really boring.This movie did not feel like corn movie at all and the kids were not even in the movie, this were not creepy at all, there could have made a lot more scary.The scariest thing about this movie, was the acting, as it was really bad, (I Saw the trailer, I knew it was going bad, which actually a really bad trailer) .This is the worst in series, paired with number 5 in the series..
Becoming stranded in a small-town, a couple attempting to travel through the desert stop at a run-down house with a man and his wife for directions only to find them under the influence of a deadly being that won't let them leave and set out to find a means of stopping him from keeping them there.This one proved to be a decidedly bland entry in the series.
Not only does this include the opening flashback of the returning soldier meeting up with the cult-members in his house as the stumbling upon the bodies and then the murderous children themselves, but the actual setup of the couple arriving at the secluded house with the aura of secrets and mystery surrounding them makes for a rather fine setup to this one.
With the lame actions that occur throughout here anyway, it never offers any kind of threat or special macabre force to be included in the action which leaves this one feeling incredibly dull, bland and basically almost devoid of horror with the inability to actually present a coherent threat to anything, from the standing around in the cabin waiting around to decide on some course of action to the people flying around the house due to the paranormal person sitting off-screen in the farmhouse away from everything and basically not even bringing up any kind of reason for the threat to be given with the completely bland offering this delves into.
Not only that, but this one doesn't even connect itself to the franchise at all with the object of the film being about the paranormal person and not the possessed kids running around killing people.
There's nothing here to connect this one to the other films beyond some half-mumbled spiel about the town in question which is a hardly explicit reasoning for the tie-in which really makes this not even worthwhile to be included in the series.
I have to admit, I haven't followed the Children of the corn series up close, so I can't tell you, if this actually makes sense in the series.
Than again Dimension doesn't seem to care, if they put a movie out there that isn't that connected to previous entries in a successful series (see Hellraiser for that).
But this movie is nicely shot, has some interesting twists (though you can see them coming even before the scriptwriter put them down on paper).In the end this doesn't add much to the horror genre, has the typical erratic character behavior (it's the grown ups who act like children, doing stuff they've been told not to do).
This is the 8th Children of the Corn movie.
The 7th one Children of the Corn revelation is a great movie.
The eighth film, like several of the other sequels, doesn't take place in Gatlin, and is very loosely tied to the original story.
I give this movie credit for possibly being the creepiest children of the corn, and for doing it without much of the gore the other films featured.
A lot of the credit goes to veteran movie actor, Billy Drago, who is just creepy by nature.
There is no denying the film is creepy, but is it good?
Having a thread-bare link to the other COTC films (at best), this ninth (??!!?!) film has barely any children at all, instead it focuses on one child that's locked in an old shed in back of the country house that a couple have the misfortune of having their car break down near.
Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) ** (out of 4) Direct-to-DVD entry in the never ending series has a husband and wife stranded in the desert after their car breaks down.
The two spot a house in the distance and go there to get some help but end up having to spend the night with its weird owner known as Preacher and his wife.
Soon the couple realize that they're in a very strange place after they discover a mysterious child being held captive in a shed behind the house.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN: GENESIS comes ten years after the seventh film in the series but you could still consider this the ninth film in the franchise since there was a remake a few years before this.
Either way, one really has to wonder why Dimension Films made this thing as it has very little connection to the previous films but if one had to guess it was made to cash-in on horror fans such as myself who are willing to watch anything.
Again, if you're looking for some sort of continuation of the series you're going to be disappointed but if you've sat through the previous sequels like myself then you know there's actually worse out there.
Even with a 75-minute running time (minus the end credits) you can't help but feel the film drags along because for the most part we just see the husband and wife talking about what's going on or what they should do.
There's never really any tension going on and I'd argue that you really don't care what's happened to the couple.
As a horror film there's very little horror going on not to mention there's really not many children and no corn except for a quick glimpse.
The performances for this type of film are actually pretty good and the opening sequence is effective but outside of this there's just not enough going right here.
You'd think that with the wealth of ideas that other Children of the Corn movies have succeeded / failed with, there'd be plenty to dip into from this 'Genesis' incarnation.
Sadly, the story is tortilla-thin and, as mentioned by other reviewers, goes wildly off the rails from about 30 minutes in.The action starts in a remote desert house, where the stranded couple have to spend the night with the creepy owners.
In fact, your guesses will probably be better than the script.This is another of those films that seems to have been made by people who haven't seen any movies for the last thirty years.
Genises was a poor attempt to explain the cause behind the cause of what made the kids go mad yet I thought the first two films handled it fine.A man returns from war to find all the adults killed and really was the best part of the feature.
The rest became ridiculous when a couple end up in town at the man's house to find he has become a disciple of the corn.
How or why is never explained since its usually only children.The entity now lives inside a child who's kept outside in a shed and wants to grow a super army of children to do his bidding.The idea isn't bad, but the conception was horrendous and didn't make any sense.
It lacked suspense or penance with a bland caste.There were so many plot holes that it seemed the writers taped together different scripts and branded it a corn film.The movie lacked a fresh film and ended the legacy for the children of the corn series instead of breathing air into a series on life support..
He comes home to an eerie setting, one we would expect from the series.The movie then jumps to present day as a couple (she is pregnant) are stranded in the desert far from civilization.
They seek shelter at a farm run by a strange overly religious man (Billy Drago) and his mail order bride (Barbara Nedeljakova) who seems to want out.
Soon aforesaid pregnant wife (Kelen Coleman) is out at night looking around in the barn which looks like a "Children of the Corn" barn.
She also discovers a child whimpering behind a locked door...hubby (Tim Rock) must do something, but the corn has other ideas.I didn't think the ending was as good as the rest of the film.
The movie doesn't have a whole bunch of kids running a community and killing adults as we have become used to.
Mind you I think he likes the way people butcher his stories.
I'm not that familiar with the whole sequel-prequel-franchise of Children of the Corn, I only saw the first one, it must have been like 30 years ago, and I remember that one as pretty creepy.
Then I found this dvd "Children of the Corn: Genesis" in a garage sale and thought that, who knows, a more or less recent version dating from 2011 might have added something new and could be even scarier than the first, considering the nowaday standards for horror movies.Well, I was wrong.
The movie itself was tedious and had a snails pace, with endless conversations, no scares, and strangely enough no corn and no children whatsoever.A young and loving couple is stranded with their car in the desert and asks for help at a forlorn dilapidated farm.
Although this is a premise that we've seen for like a zillion times, it can usually vouch for a nice tension-filled rest of the movie.
The couple tries to befriend the strange owner and his Ukranian wife (why on earth Ukranian??) during an awkward dinner, evidently to no avail, and in the night the girl discovers in a barn outside that a young child is locked up.
Only in a few dream-fragments of the girl we see hints of a few brutal children but in the rest of the movie we have to settle for just some people talking endlessly.I won't give the end away, but what happens during their escape in the car stands for the only real action and excitement of the whole movie (and by the way with very good special effects, and/or - I'm no professional - old fashioned stuntmens craftsmanship!).So I guess my old assumption was right: the theme of Children of the Corn is probably really too worn out for a decent sequel.
This movie did start of good but when the kid was discover, it went to s**t.
I want to like this movie but the acting went downhill and the writing.
Why do they film movies like this?.
I liked the trailer when i saw it & was waiting to watch this movie.
First of all mistakes have happened even before starting the film: the trailer itself shows you the best 2 minutes that occur almost at the end of the film (main road with cars smashing everywhere) so this kinda sucks.
Also have you noticed the movie is called "Children of the corn"?
Well, damn me if you see children for more that 10' & there is no corn field at all!
Story makes no sense at all after half of this movie and even before that you'll be bored by its extremely slow pace, things happen just to happen, and acting is not good with the exception of the husband doing excellent job on his role.
Liked the policeman's death & the smashed cars.CONS: The movie's existence & public release.
First part of the movie is really boring, second part makes no sense by any means.
Or do you carry on behind the transporter, keeping your speed up, and wondering why all those cars are falling off the transporter?Guess which one happens in the film.
Yep, I think it's time to officially retire this franchise.The "Children of the Corn" franchise has never been known as one with a rich mythology to dive into but rather a series of films with a whole bunch of unnecessary phoned-in sequels and "Genesis" somehow outdoes the combined might of all the other films and makes something that is even more lazy and lethargic than the others.Nothing happens that is really noteworthy in this film as the story just feels like it is slowing stepping its way to its incredibly underwhelming and anticlimactic finish.
Even Billy Drago, whose creepy looks already make him a force for thrillers and horrors, looks like he just doesn't care or is too depressed to work because his dog just died.To call "Genesis" lackluster is an understatement and words fail me to completely capture just how boring and unimaginative this latest Direct-to-DVD sequel in this lifeless franchise is.