Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Plot synopsis:
The plot involves Hemingford, Nebraska, a town near Gatlin (the original film's setting). The people of Hemingford decide to adopt the surviving children from Gatlin, intending to help them start new lives. Unfortunately for the well-meaning locals, the children go out to the cornfield where one of the cult members, Micah, is possessed by He Who Walks Behind the Rows, the demonic entity the cult worships.
Caught in the middle are reporter John Garret and his son Danny, who have a troubled relationship. John is in town working on a story about the children. He runs into two of his former coworkers, Bobby and Mac, who are leaving town and are soon killed by He Who Walks Behind the Rows. John begins a relationship with bed and breakfast owner Angela. Danny spends most of his time with a local orphan girl, Lacey.
Micah and the other children murder a local woman, Ruby Burke, by sabotaging the hydraulic jacks supporting her house while she is underneath it, causing it to descend and crush her. Micah then kills another member of the town by using a type of voodoo doll, which causes him to bleed to death. John begins to ask the town doctor questions about what is going on, but the doctor acts suspiciously and asks John to leave. The doctor is later stabbed to death by the children. Micah and the children then kill Mrs. Burke's sister, but it appears as if she was simply hit by a car.
John teams up with Frank Red Bear, a professor at a nearby University, to try and figure out what is going on. They discover that the residents of the town are selling spoiled corn from the previous year's harvest along with the new crop for years. The spoiled corn has a toxin growing on it which they believe is the source of the children's delusions. The town Sheriff captures them, ties them up, and tries to kill them with a corn harvester, but they escape.
The Sheriff and the rest of the town leadership attend a meeting to discuss the situation, but the children lock them inside and set the building on fire killing all of them. The children kidnap Angela and Lacey and bring them out into the cornfield. Danny agrees to join the children and Micah orders him to sacrifice Lacey. Danny hesitates, then John and Frank arrive driving the harvester. One of the children shoots Frank with an arrow, and he is apparently killed. Danny and John free Lacey and Angela and attempt to escape, but the cornfield seemingly never ends and they return to where they started. Micah begins to harness the power of He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Then, Frank, who is still alive, starts up the harvester before he finally dies. Micah's robe gets caught in it, and calls for Danny to help. Danny hesitates but doesn't leave. Then, Micah's face transforms into the demon that possessed him. The demon then leaves him, making Micah himself again. Danny runs in to help him but does so too late, as Micah is pulled in by the harvester and shredded to bits. The rest of the children scatter, and Danny, Angela, Lacey, and John leave the clearing.
Later, John and Danny reconcile. They, Lacey, and Angela burn Frank's body and give him a funeral before they all drive off together away from Nebraska.

Tags: paranormal, cult, entertaining, violence, stupid

Review:
I'm bored already.My favourite death (so few times you get to start a sentence that way) would be the old lady under the house, with all her howling and honking and crappy acting I was hoping one of the five year olds would just run up and start kicking her in the stomach – alas not to be, but she was crushed and the kids stood in their group and stared.
I was underwhelmed by the original Children of the Corn (1984) film, I expected something a lot more impressive and walked away very dissapointed.It took 8yrs before it got a sequel and the movie more or less picks up from the last.
All the corpses of the residents have been found but the psychotic religious fanatic children haven't changed at all and once again set about purging the adults.It comes down to a reporter and his son to stop them, but though it makes for an interesting follow up the movie itself isn't very interesting.A couple of decent deaths and a passable premise don't make up for just how generic it feels.
Sometimes simplicity is the key.If you liked the first I'd say this is essential viewing, if you didn't then take into consideration that this is more of the same.The Good:One death scene was greatFollows on nicelyThe Bad:Simply fails to entertainSquanders potentialThings I Learnt From This Movie:Rifling through a persons belongings left in a car is suitable small town etiquetteBINGO!.
These are just some of a few lessons to be taken from the sequel nobody expected that snowballed into the franchise nobody wanted, "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice." Picking up after the events of the first film, a tabloid-journalist and his teenage son are passing through a small neighboring town of Gatlin, Nebraska shortly after those corn-husking little munchkins laid it to waste.
Meanwhile, his son attempts to sow some seeds of his own with the girl-next-door who appears to the only one under the age of 18 in town who isn't under the trance of the mysterious maze.It must be said that by no means is "Children of the Corn II" a particularly great film.
I wish I could tell you more but unfortunately I fell asleep, well it was 5am so it could have been that, but let's put it this way I'm an insomniac.This film does have its good scenes, mainly when Danny is arguing with his dad, the teenage wit and angry demanding parent though stereotypical is realistic and at least gives the movie some sense of reality before it generates into the monomania of your average American teen horrorfest.If you're a fan of the original maybe you should ignore my small analyses, it's possible you might like this.
Then somehow, He Who Walks Behind The Rows possesses Micah – this sequel's terminally constipated-looking excuse for Isaac – and the children begin their cult again.COTC II is just plain offensive.
Paul Scherrer on the other hand simply looks like he's on a special day out.Where the first film brilliantly explores the isolation of the victims from the rest of the world, its first sequel offers nothing more than a clueless slasher movie, with the soap opera moments hastily strung together by too-stupid-to-be-funny death sequences involving ridiculous characters that deserve everything they get.One can easily understand why Stephen King does everything in his power nowadays to disassociate himself with the Children of the Corn franchise.
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they carry out their plans.While not a completely worthless sequel, it does have enough to make it interesting without being all that terrible.
The very first attack in the cornfield is really fun as the howling wind and strange lightning blasts befalling the reporters while they're in the corn rows before the huge tree falls into the area, while other really good action moments are packed in amongst the other supernatural occurrences here as house-falling sequence and the scene in the church provide some fun since they involve a great amount of suspense.
Even better than that is where the remaining adults are trapped inside a burning building, which is one of the better scenes in the film with the fire and the panic providing plenty to like.The last big plus is the finale, which is just all sorts of good cheesy action-packed fun, some wonderful ideas and an overall really great way to end the film.
Seriously, some comedies don't make me laugh as much as this film did (now, in the cold light of my adulthood).If you can ignore the use of the word 'final' in the title (there are about four more Children of the Corn films afterwards) and be prepared not to take this story that seriously, you may just enjoy some of the most ludicrous death scenes ever committed on the elderly.
Besides the beautiful women and staring brats, there's also a wise old native American, some 'Predator-vision' from the monster (or 'he who hides behind the rows') and a sheriff who tries to kill people like he was a Bond villain.How this film was supposed to be taken seriously, I'll never know.
This time the remaining mean spirited kids are moved to a new location where they bring their usual kill-crazy antics and it's up to a tabloid journalist (Terence Knox) and his rebellious son (Paul Scherrer) to save the town from "He who walks behind the rows!" and save their love interests from sacrifice in this surprisingly watchable sequel, which is against genre odds better than it's lame predecessor.
The first "Children of the Corn" film is a decent horror film with some suspense and atmosphere,this one is basically just a typical slasher film gussied up with occult elements.By those standards,it isn't bad,with some decent scares and a fair amount of blood.Sure,it's nothing new,but overlook that  if you really love horror genre.The acting is either wooden or over-the-top,but there are some rather inventive death scenes for example when an old woman is crushed by her own home.So if you are a fan of this series then go ahead-try this one,if not check out some other horror flicks.5 out of 10..
The film has a few strong moments, like the scene of a man who bled to death in a church, and a girl on a moped is too cute, but the movie overall is stupid and drowning in mediocrity.5/10.
And, how does Micah remember his father if he's only a teen and the original Gatlin slaughtering was like 12 years before this movie even happened?
David Price, the director, didn't impress much, and coming from a movie called "Son of Darkness: To Die for II" says it all, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice was just a cash-in with poor film-team, equipment and no love..
Sequel(!) to the surprise hit original is set eight years later, after authorities cleaned up the bodies from the massacre, the surviving children are moved to another town for adoption, but soon after the mysterious creature from behind the rows of corn is back to take possession over one of them, and restart the murderous cult.
This was not bad at all, its not great but it was decent movie for a sequel for the children of the corn series.This start off, when the bodies have been uncovered and the neighbouring townsfolk of Hemingford, agree to shelter the traumatised children.unaware that they are opening their doors to an awesome force that will threaten their very existence.Once again, the power of He Who Walks Behind The Rows is reincarnated, and commands the children to rise up and rid the land of the adults that defile the sacred corn.
The first Children of the Corn, based on a Stephen king short story, was a dried up, empty husk of a movie, lacking anything really tasty to get the teeth into; whilst part II is far from essential viewing, a belated and predictably dumb sequel, at least there are a few tasty niblets to be found amongst the chaff.Firstly, this one is far more gruesome, the children of Gatlin offing their victims in inventive and often bloody fashion (FX by Bob Keen), highlights including a fatal stabbing with syringes, a messy hemorrhage from the nose and ears caused by voodoo doll, and a silly but fun scene inspired by the Wizard of Oz in which an old woman is crushed by a house (her sister is even called Miss West, as in 'wicked witch of the').The film also benefits from a couple of decent 90s babes in the form of sexy bed and breakfast owner Angela (Rosalind Allen) and busty teen hottie Lacey (Christie Clark).
Frustratingly, neither gal gets nekkid for the camera, although Angela does hop in the sack for a brief nudity-free romp with tabloid hack John Garrett (Terence Knox) and lovely Lacey takes a shower under a waterfall in her bikini top, much to the delight of John's son Danny (Paul Scherrer).Sadly, the lacklustre plot itself isn't all any where near as memorable as either the splatter or the eye-candy, and as the story develops, too many elements are introduced that irritatingly conflict with each other—toxic corn that induces hallucinations in children, a psycho cop, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, Indian mysticism—by the end of the film, not only did I not know what was going on, but I didn't really care.
"Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice" is pretty much an okay sequel, staying in sync with the events that happened in the town of Gatlin 8 years earlier, but I'm not sure if I can actually call it better than the original.
Soon enough, the children have found a new preacher, and the adults of Hemingford are all meeting grisly demises.Yes, the story is clichéd and not at all good, but it is enough to keep the movie moderately interesting.
it starts off with the children from gatlin being shipped off to the nearby town hemmingford to live with the people there seeing as they have no families now that they've killed off their parents in the first film.
it had some pretty good, more imaginative, death scenes, a decent attempt at explaining why the kids go around killing adults, and better effects.
children of the corn II is a pretty good movie,with not too bad acting.
Absolutely awful sequel to Children of the Corn, which wasn't a great movie itself.
"Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice" follows a reporter and his estranged son from New York who are traveling through Nebraska in the aftermath of the first film's events; naturally, he wants a story.
Perhaps his life.The original "Children of the Corn" installment is not what I'd call high art exactly, but it is a fairly well-put-together horror film from a rather disreputable company (New World).
**SPOILERS** Long awaited sequel to the 1984 Stephen King home on the range or cornfield horror flick "Children of the Corn" that took nine years in the making.In this corny film the children now eight years older and looking as if they didn't age a day are discovered by the local police and news reporters after their parents were found slaughtered in a basement in the now almost deserted town of Glatin.
In no time at all deaths starts occurring at Hemingford with the elders, that's those over 20 years old, being targeted by an unknown force of nature that happens to be the zombie like children themselves.To make the movie interesting we also have a parent & son dispute involving supermarket tabloid newsman John Garrett, Terrance Knox, and his bratty and foul mouth son Danny, Paul Scherrer.
Almost overnight Danny drops is bratty and foul mouth persona, as well as hair color, and goes back home to daddy just so he can be with Lacy who's more then willing to jump into the hey with him.Back to the children of the corn their instructed by their leader the blow-hard and wild eyed Micah, Ryan Bollman, to make ready the ultimate sacrifice in human blood of the elders in town by the time the harvest moon arrives.
The rotten and infected corn is now slowly infecting the entire town which in the end will kill far more people then the children of the corn ever will!***SPOILER*** It's only when university professor and Native American Frank Redbear who's actually gray, Ned Romero, shows up later in the movie that it finally starts to make some kind of sense.
Redbear soon gets the totally mixed up John Garrett to go alone with him in his attempt to put an end to the children of the corn and their deranged leader Micah in carrying out their evil plan; That's in them killing everyone over 20 in town.
That's before he himself finally expired from an arrow shot into his gut by one of Micah's followers.In the end we finally get to see the mysterious "One who walks in the Rows" the real power behind Micah who happens to be some kind giant gopher or prairie dog who only works by night and underground.Despite all the blood letting and violence in the movie it's only good for laughs and nothing else.
As an horror movie this movie is actually quite a good and effective one.The movie works out way better than "Children of the Corn", from 1984.
The story centers around what are supposedly survivors from the town in the last movie and for some reason it seems the corn is infecting them in ways that once again make them into bad children, or bad teenagers for the most part.
That can't be good.Only a very low budget could explain why the movie looks as it does, nevertheless, as people like Robert Rodriguez and Sam Raimi have proved, a low budget is not an excuse for a bad film.The plot is as follows: After the events in Gatlin described in the first "Children of the Corn", the surviving kids are adopted by the people of the nearest town, Hemmingford.
Gone are the eerie score and the creepy atmosphere of the first one.The acting is bad most of the times, and even when the acting in the first one was no Oscar-worthy, John Franklin's Isaac is in many ways superior to Ryan Bollsman's Micah as the leader of the cult.A forgettable sequel that looks like it was done to the TV, it has a few good moments, but it falls down.
Even after a couple of people die, most people don't think much of it.Leaving that behind, The Final Sacrifice offers enough fun to sit through, though it's not as scary or good as the first Children of the Corn.5/10..
An old woman is crushed by her house, her sister is thrown through a window, two reporters are killed by cornstalks during a storm caused by the children's God "He Who Walks Behind the Rows.", a man bleeds to death because of a voodoo doll, and most of the town is burned.
Although this film is called "The Final Sacrifice" they made four more so that tells you this series had the quality to survive!!Although nothing matches the enjoyable awfulness of Part 3 and it's monster hyped in the first two films this and the first one work as more series horror films.See this if only to see some annoying old biddy crushed under a house and if you enjoyed that great news - she plays a twin sister too!!!!!!Although not as good as the first or as enjoyably bad as the third this is a enjoyable film that makes Scream 2 look like Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
The original "Children of the Corn", predating this first sequel by almost ten years, had a pretty serious and demanding tone for being such a stupid horror film.
This was a fine follow up sequel in the corn series that picks up a week later where the kids are being transported by his to a new town nearby.What made this special is it follows the themes of the first film and becomes its own entity.
Not the Bad. This wasn't that bad of a sequel.But it's not all that great.This movie takes place after the events in Gatlin,and the children are adopted by adults in Hemmingford,the town near by.The children don't talk about what happened,but just talk about the corn.Meanwhile,a reporter goes to Hemmingoford with his son,Danny to get the story about the Gatlin massacre.Later,one of the kids,Micah gets taken over by a demon.(I don't think it was He Who Walks Behind The Rose,but I could be wrong)And like what happened in Gatlin,the children start to kill the adults.
Can Micah be stopped or will he enlist Danny into his cult of adult hating young people?These Children of the Corn movies get a bad rap; but as a fan of the first one, I thought Children of the Corn II was a pretty good entry to the franchise.
As unexplained 'accidents' begin to happen John does some investigation together with anthropology professor Frank Redbear (Ned Romero) & discovers ancient Indian legends that predicted the events of Gatlin, he also discovers that his son Danny is being slowly initiated into the cult...Directed by David Price I actually rather liked Children of the Corn II: The Final: Sacrifice although having said that I think it puts me in a minority as it seems to get a lot of negative reaction.
For a sequel to "Children of the Corn" i wasn't expecting much of a movie.
but not nearly as much as the others.As a reviewer before me said, this film has a much bigger budget and better actors than the original '84 movie, Children of the Corn.
This movie is scary at times, and has some disturbing killings, like (SPOILERS) the old woman being killed, and the children lighting the town house on fire.