Thursday, January 6, 2022

'Children of The Corn II' (1992) – David F. Price.

While a sequel to the 80s Stephen King cult classic was, perhaps, an inevitable proposition, its almost decade-long gestation period might have impaired the overall freshness of this weirdly belated, but not entirely unsatisfying B-horror harvest! After the grisly discovery of a multitude of ruinous corpses grimly reveals the nightmarish extent of the bloody tragedy, the egregiously creepy children of benighted Gatlin are taken to adjacent Hemingford, where, true to horror sequel form, the very same demonic events are more gruesomely repeated! As belated B-Horror sequels go, 'Children of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice' is a remarkably meritorious affair, the tyrannical phantom 'He Who Walks Behind The Rows' wastes precious little time infecting the battle-hardened, blood-thirsty bairns with a twisted yen for killin' their elders in myriad amusingly macabre ways, and it is down to pushy tabloid journalist Garret (Terence Knox), and his super-snarky son Danny (Paul Scherrer) to best this hellacious horde of terminally toxic terror-tweens, and their monomaniacal quest to gruesomely rid the land of any adults that foolishly lumber into their aged proximity. While ultimately lacking the eerie folk horror theatrics of the original, this fitfully creepy, deliciously corn-soaked calamity is way more of a fun, splattery B-movie than some might have led you to believe! Sadly, the passage of time has done little to soften the heavy blow of the so-so sequel's lack of a truly credible nemesis, oh! Where for art thou my beloved, Malachai?

 











 

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