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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Expected more

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) * (out of 4) The seventh and final film in the original series has a young woman (Claudette Mink) traveling to Omaha when her elderly grandmother doesn't answer her phone. The woman discovers her grandmother missing and with the help of a cop they start to investigate her past, which leads them to a cult that she was in many years ago where several kids killed themselves. Now, it appears, the ghosts are back and looking for new victims. As with many of the sequels, this one here has very little to do with the original short story by Stephen King but this one here goes out and tries to mix in a little of THE SHINING as well. The film is a complete mess as it doesn't work as an entry in the series and it isn't strong enough to work on its own. The entire premise is rather predictable as we know why the grandmother is missing and we know who the mysterious children are long before our leading lady. The entire movie runs only 80-minutes but it feels much long as I was having a hard time just making it through to the end. The performances are all bland to decent with Mink making for an interesting lead, although she isn't given anything to do. Michael Ironside appears as a strange priest but doesn't add too much. The violence this time out isn't overly graphic and the gore is at a rather low count but even if it had been more it probably wouldn't have helped the movie.

Dull I really liked first 30 minutes of this movie, it kinda reminded me an old-school horror adventure game – the chick comes to creepy place, where her grandmother is supposed to live, but she can't find her, so she goes around collecting clues and meeting strange local people, while witnessing strange events and meeting some strangely looking kids and the acting is actually not bad up to this point, but after the 30th minute movie kinda falls apart. Death scenes are lame and not scary to say the least and the scariest thing you see would probably be some little kids playing evil dead – a video game on a machine. Children laugh effect sounds extremely fake and not threatening. As for the story it stops really developing after 30th minute too. Nothing gets accomplished, except from local people being slaughter and it's just down the hill from there. It would probably be safe to say that this movie would better stand alone with some different plot elements because COTC aren't really that important here. I would've loved the movie if it could've sustained the atmosphere of the beginning, but it failed to do that. Failed big time. The ending is lame and very unsatisfying too. If you're going to watch this movie I recommend to shut it down after that magical 30th minute I keep mentioning. Unless you want to be bored to sleep that is. Good stuff lasts for about 40 % of the movie so I give it 4/10.

I expected nothing from this, except that being a fairly modern film that it would at least spare me 80s denim and bad haircuts xD I don't think I even got that.If it had just been total rubbish with no glimmer of potential, that would be OK, predictable and OK.What really gets me is that this film could have been something, it really wouldn't have taken much at all! Ordinary camera shots, kids behaving evil rather than like mannequins, a heroine character with the ability to realise she's in a horror film not some 'real life drama' and a few other things, this could have been a good straight to video/TV film, it really could have been :( Another thing which bugged me is that the film had something over many of its rivals: the picture quality really wasn't bad. Oftentimes it's this alone which betrays a shoe-string budget movie from a supposedly 'better' picture with more money. SO close to a good film, it's so annoying..COTC films already have the basis for a good creepy feeling, those pesky kids! It was evident here too, there was some good atmosphere when the kiddies were on the prowl, but it was messed up with some very poor direction.Stupid 'ghost' sounds (kids laughing in this case), silly ineffective camera cheap-shots and minutes wasted watching the heroine wander around when it's obvious she will find nothing. These annoy viewers every flipping time, yet once again they're here to annoy COTC: Revelation viewers too. These pathetic acts of film-making sloth knock the film down a few pegs on their own! The kids act like robots in bad threads most of the time, these are self-assured, murderous and downright evil kids from hell without a scrap of empathy. So.. why are they gimping around like second-rate zombies in goofy clothing? For God's sake. *Scowls* The main apartment building doesn't seem inhabited at all, a total ghost town, yet within a few shots it turns out that there's a bunch of people living there. The audience shouldn't have to be faced with such cack-handed bloopers like this. Sloppy, it jarred and brought me straight out of the film. If the crew can't be bothered to put a film together properly, how can they expect anyone to bother to watch it?I was glad when it was over, there's nothing worse than glimpsing what could have been.In short: don't rent, don't buy, don't bother.

I've seen the whole series and this was the worst of the whole thing. The problem is it's so new age based and it ruins the creepy affect of the other films. I really didn't like it. I've seen a lot or horror movies and this just stunk. I really enjoyed all of the films before it but the way this was designed bugged me! It was an apartment building with corn fields right next to it. This movie was an insult to Stephen King's work.