Children of the Corn (2009 TV Movie)
7/10
Bland and troubling remake
4 April 2015
On a road trip through rural Nebraska, a divorcing couple find an abandoned town to be the home of a cult of children worshiping a bizarre figure that lives in their cornfields and must find a way of stopping the kids from turning them into their next sacrifice.

This is a pretty troubling if somewhat watchable effort. One of the better things this gets right is the rather creepy amount of stalking and chasing around the town which helps this one along. The opening attack with the slit-throat recreation of the original as it leads into the encounter with the kids in front of the church is one of the better scenes as the scenes of them being along and feeling watched also gives this one some rather appealing suspenseful nods here and there. There's several other rather intriguing action scenes from the numerous times of the group of kids chasing after the two through town which is a lot of fun by getting some rather fun chasing here that's all the more fun by feature a large amount of suspense and action together. This is repeated in the finale with everyone along in the cornrows with all the supernaturally-powered vines which leads into the sacrifice at the end which really works well and amounts to all that's positive. The flaws, though, are more detrimental in their quality than quantity since there's not much but it does have very damaging ones mostly centered on the couple in the beginning. They're constant arguing over everything gets old quickly, as the physical and verbal abuse of them arguing over everything really strains credibility that these are supposedly the heroes. This is certainly not heroic behavior and to do it is really troubling by making the leads so irritating and annoying when we get introduced to them. Another big point here is the rather maddening and delusional religious banter throughout here, which are so hackneyed and moronic that it's not only impossible to take seriously but also rather curious as for why anyone would join up with their crusade which is a major testament to the grand amount of nonsense uttered here. The other it of contention is the point of including the flashback to Vietnam which is plain confusing and doesn't accomplish anything, though this isn't as bad as the other flaws. Overall, these are the ones that lower this version.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, a sex scene and continuous threatening situations toward children.
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