Children of the Corn - Revelation (2001)

Based on the chilling story CHILDREN OF THE CORN by Stephen King, REVELATION is the next shocking chapter in this ever-popular series of suspense thrillers! When calls to her eccentric grandmother go unanswered, Jamie Lowell is shocked to discover that her grandmother's last known address is a condemned tenement building overrun by uncontrolled children! But as Jamie slowly uncovers the truth behind her grandmother's mysterious disappearance, she merely disturbs a powerful evil that now seeks to destroy Jamie as well!

Excellent for one of these

Don't get me wrong; "Children Of The Corn: Revelation" isn't what you'd call a great movie. It is a decent horror movie, and as far as a "Children Of The Corn" film goes, it's excellent. Different standards apply here, but it's one of the best in the series. It has atmosphere, plenty of it, and a good lead performance. April 8, 2008

BORING!

The beginning is extreamly boring but the end I would give five stars. The music was good too but other then that BORING! December 24, 2007

This Wasn't Bad At All!

This one was one of the better CotC movies.

''Children of the Corn 7 - Revelation'' really shaped the series up after the poor 666 and 5.

This one is another good horror related stub, this one, the CGI Effects were actually pretty good in this film. But the thing is, there
was 0% bloddy deaths in this one. No blood or gore! Which really sucked.

But this one didn't have to do with the corn too much. Nobody Got Killed!

When the people die, they turn back into kids and start the cult up again and that is what 'revelation' means.

AKA

''Children of the Corn 7 - Ressurection''

I really liked this one. December 7, 2007

Children of the Condo

Children of the Corn (CotC) scripts may have never been literary masterpieces, but for some reason, CotC 6 and 7 have scripts that seem like very early drafts--or even as if they were only partially complete and the directors decided to just wing it for the rest of the film. It's a shame because both films otherwise had the potential to be quite good.

For CotC7, a relatively oblique path was chosen (probably to the chagrin of those predisposed to purism)--it's more or less a "haunted house" film. This was promising to me, as by the time you get around to the seventh entry in a series, a change of pace is refreshing, and haunted house (really, haunted anything) films are probably my favorite horror subgenre.

For the first 45 minutes or so, CotC7 was satisfying to me. In fact, for the first 10 or 15 minutes, it seemed reminiscent of the more recent 1408 (2007), which I loved. It had a good setting, a good premise, good atmosphere, creepy scenes, a bit of eye candy, and even a bit of odd humor.

But right about the halfway mark, it starts to unravel. Mysterious characters (many supernatural) are never explained, and they keep growing in number. A couple scenes featured supernatural characters that don't cohere with the rest of the film--for example, one has a zombie or adult burn victim. The film starts getting choppy, and it begins to feel more like a series of pointless and disconnected "scary" set-pieces.

Worse, there was a stable of interesting human characters who were never explored enough--we're just teased with them and then they're usually quickly dispatched with relatively generic horror film deaths. And the crux of the story--Jamie's (Claudette Mink) missing grandmother--remains murky through the end. The biggest tragedy is that the ball was dropped. With just a bit more work on the script--another two or three drafts, maybe--this could have been one of the better entries of this uneven series. November 13, 2007

NO MORE, PLEASE!

I am getting sick and tired of people making uneeded sequels to movies like the original C.O.T.C. Quit this sequel crap, please. If you want to se a good sequel running series, watch Friday The 13th. March 19, 2006

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