Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Stephen King's name became an exploitation element in the 80's.

Continuing with our demanding mission of bringing you in depth reviews of all sorts of cult movies (the good ones, the bad ones, the worse ones, the blockbuster ones and the unbearable ones) I went to my local favorite megamart looking for a lettuce and a bag of burrito tortillas, evidently I didn't have any intentions of taking a look at the cheap movie racks they use to have there, cause I know most of the flicks are kids stuff and standard hollywood shit. anyways, while I was on my way to finding the exquisite burrito tortillas I found this rack with DVD movies on sale. After looking effortlessly at a big lot of DVDs that are not worth mentioning here I found the Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice DVD at the cheapest possible price a nation wide mart could afford.  Ages ago Children of the Corn was released in 1984 as one of the many horror flicks based in the exceptional writting of Stephen King. The movie neither became a blockbuster nor a classic but having the Based on Stephen King's Book tag   did give its producers plenty of money and caught the attention of thousands of Kings avid fans. Critics buried the movie for sure so it became some sort of B classic that did very well at local video stores as a friday night rent movie silently making its way to become a cult classic re-released in the DVD  format. 

An alternate movie poster.

These movie titles remind me of Korn.

"Say, How about I, fucking your shaved twat blondie?"

"I inspired Keanu Reeves look in the Matrix saga"

Does it look like a pedophile priest and his prey?

We know for sure that the movie iudustry wether mainstream or independet relies on one simple question to make its projects come true: How many Benjamins will we cash? so, depending on the answer thousands of films are either made or cancelled each year. I guess movie makers thought the answer was "No Benjamins" putting an end to any idea of a Children of the Corn sequel. The crazy 80's went by and everyone forgot about many of the horror films based on Stephen Kings book with only few exceptions that did become cult films in their own righteous way. The original 1984 Children of the Corn failed because it was not based on an entire book, it was just a small story Stephen King wrote, so the "based on" tag left the movie producers with a lot of room to add more sense to the story but, they couldn't make it, they just failed.

The real question here is "Why do you want to make a saga out a short story?" Unfortunately I have no certain answers but I can think of one "We're so stupid we just don't care for film quality anymore as long as it has some nudity, action and blood, so bring it on movie makers" The painful fact here is that Children of the Corn became a seven movie saga, a possible remake, and a made for TV movie.

"If you're an adult prepare to get your ass raped fucker"

A demon in the movie.

"We're not your average amish people"

Now, after the way too long introduction let's get down to business as Monica Lewinsky would put it. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice was released in 1992 and featured an unexperienced cast of B- movie actors that did a fair job in their B movie assignment. Part II really pushes hard to add a more consisten storyline but the only elements that I can call improvements in this movie are the special effects and the death scenes. The storyline is pretty much the same than the original. A small town where every adult is being killed just for the fact of being adult. The responsible killers are all kid; members of the He who walks behind the rows cult. Probably the movie tries to tell us adults tend to be so demanding with their kids, that eventually kids would hate us all.

Overall a movie that is only bearable by movie freaks and connoisseurs. By the way why is it called The Final Sacrifice? because that's what it takes to watch it.

Here's the movie trailer: