A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The previous three Children of the Corn movie has all been theatrical releases, Children of the Corn: The Gathering is straight to video release, so you would think that this movie has a crappy production, so wrong! This movie is the best looking CotC movie ever made. Good camera-work, good editing, good directing, good sound design, good blood/gore, great casting. No doubt that this movie has good filmmakers behind the camera. Getting Naomi Watts starring was a great deal, I know this was before she became a Hollywood star, but she has a very charming and likable character and it fits her perfectly. Not only Naomi Watts, but the whole cast is great, and that's nothing usual in a CotC movie. Storywise is The Gathering a little different, it is like crossing a virus film with Children of the Corn, it kind of works i guess, some might not like it, I can see that. The Gathering has also a more serious tone and is much darker than previous movies. The Gathering is a different kind of CotC movie, but almost all of them are different, that's one of the things i like best about this series, unlike Friday the 13th where every movie is exactly the same, you know what they say, Children of the Corn movies is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Children of the Corn 4 is much more thought out than the rest of the sequels. The cut version that I have on DVD separates itself from the original story of "he who walks behind the rows" giving a fresh look to the franchise. A lot of question marks are raised throughout the beginning, but nothing is really answered until the later half of the film.Grace Rhodes comes to her hometown of Grand Island, Nebraska to take care of her mother June who is having nightmares of sick children. June has also become to paranoid to leave her front yard. In addition to looking after her mother, she has to take care of her younger siblings. June's nightmares also include a young boy dressed in a preacher like outfit, and we later find out his name is Josiah. Anyways, June's visions of sick children comes true. All of the kids in Grand Island start becoming ill with high fevers and pretty soon their teeth begin to fall out. And that's when some of the adults in town begin dying off in gruesome ways.The big plot reveal (told to viewers near the end of the film) is that Josiah was taken in by some travelling preachers as a child and eventually became a very gifted preacher. Over the years, Josiah never grew out of boyhood and stopped aging. The travelling preachers gave him over to darkness to stunt his growth, but when word got out, they abandoned him. Josiah killed the preachers and then the townspeople burned him alive and sealed his remains in a well. Grace also finds out that Josiah can control all of the children in the town by finding a child like himself (a lie child). That child is Grace's "sister" Margaret. The lie surrounding Margaret is that she is actually Grace's daughter whom Grace abandoned years ago. It's up to Grace to destroy Josiah and save the children. Children of the Corn IV is a step up from part III. The films itself looked a lot cleaner and sophisticated then it's predecessor and I liked the franchise returning to the rural setting. There were some gory moments and genuinely scary scenes which was missing from the third film. I recommend it. Acting was great (Naomi Watts), had a good story...definitely one of the better sequels in the franchise.6/10

Grace (Naomi Watts) comes home to Grand Island, Nebraska to take care of her seemingly mentally ill mother, not knowing that all the children of said hometown have come under a unknowable affliction that has them murdering the older generation. All of this,of course, has jack all to do with any of the previous 3 films in the series.The acting runs from merely acceptable to sub-par, the plot line is extremely predictable, and the scares are nonexistent. Naomi would go on to decidedly better horror fare with The Ring films, while this franchise would continue to limp along in squaller never even reaching the low standard of mediocrity. And to think this was actually one of the 'better' COTC sequels. Chew on THAT for awhile.My Grade: D+

The movie starts off with a dream sequence. And get used to it – because this will be the 1st of at least 183 dream sequences this movie has.Unfortunately my beloved Gatlin is nowhere to be found as they have set this movie in another fictional Nebraska town with rows of cornfields. Not that much time is spent in the corn seeing as everyone is too busy sleeping and having dreams.A bored young woman named Grace comes home to NOT Gatlin to help take care of her nut bar mother and her much, much younger siblings and to look and seem bored. Soon after the kids get high temperatures and start becoming reincarnations of kids from way back. Or so I assume, it was easy to fade in and out of this movie. Bored Grace teams up with what's his face and they attempt to save the freaking day. Kudos to Grace for still managing to look bored even when faced with dead bodies and mortal peril. It's her thing and she's sticking with it.One thing I love with the Children of the Corn series is that each movie comes up with completely different explanations for why the kids go crazy and He Who Walks behind the Rows. So far everything from Indian legend to Satan to child abuse and the black arts has been used, with this we have an origin story of a boy preacher in 1800's who was forced to stay young otherwise Coca Cola would take away his sponsorship. Faced with this horrifying aspect he turned eeeeeeevil and......*YAWWWWWN* I'm over it.After a few more dream sequences and a few scenes of Grace turning up and looking bored, the movie thankfully ends; I didn't even have a favourite death. That makes me sad. I'm going to have to go watch Friday the 13th part 8 – Jason Takes Manhattan to make myself feel better.Oh yea and Grace's sister turns out to be her daughter. Trust me, that's not a spoiler anyone could see that 'plot twist' coming from the get go. Just because it's a horror movie sequel doesn't mean that slack lazy writing needs to be the order of the day movie people.Next up: Children of the Corn 5 – Sex and the Corn