Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)

I wanted to but couldn't!

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The last remaining kids from the first film are now adults, had kids of their own and await the return of their prophet to return like a messiah.Hannah abandoned at birth travels to meet her mother that abandoned her in the town of Gatlin. She meets a boy who takes an instant interest in her as it was foretold they will conceive the promised child.This film was quite good despite the multiple plot holes within the script like adults are permitted inside the cult, they were taken to a new town in the sequel and Isaac didn't die but hung on in a coma.What makes the ending fall flat is it makes you believe a new breed of killer mutants will come forth, but Issac's first born is a case of mistaken omens which leaves you confused rather or not if they succeeded.It does drag a tiny bit unlike the other films as Hannah plays detective for evidence to who her mother is and the people that stalk her. Anyone with an IQ would've picked up the signs immediately or left town on the first bus once the weird activity started.The effects and music weren't to shabby. Any fan of the series will enjoy it no matter the cons and those who glaze over it on TV may turn the channel but it never was meant to be Broadway material.7 /10

After 19 years, beautiful Natalie Ramsey (as Hannah Martin) decides to go back to Gatlin, Nebraska. She's been having visions of someone being cut to death in the cornfield. She wants to find her biological mother. Of course, this leads to danger for Ms. Ramsey. In town, she gets off to a bad start by driving her car into the cornfield. This has never been a good move. Checked out by heavy-smoking doctor Stacy Keach (as Michaels), Ramsey discovers original "Children of the Corn" star John Franklin (as Isaac Chroner) is a comatose patient in the hospital. Uh-oh...The ending of the prior film, plus the "666" in the title, suggests a completely different story than this one. Possibly, filmmakers forgot four sequels and went back to the first one; continuity is not one of this film series' strong suits. All the new characters introduced in the last film and the devilish tot with the glowing eyes becomes big boy "Isaac" or, possibly, a new fetus. No doubt, this story's promising copulation between Ramsey and handsome Paul Popowich (as Gabriel) will be forgotten, too. By now, someone should have tried to tie these films together; they are confusing and inconsistent...With clocks, corridors and camera angles, director Kari Skogland and his crew do give it some style, though.**** Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (10/19/99) Kari Skogland ~ Natalie Ramsey, Paul Popowich, John Franklin, Nancy Allen

***SPOILERS*** The 6th out of 7 movies about the children of the corn with more on the way has to do with Hannah Martin, Natalie Ramsey, going back to Gatlin to find her birth mother whom she was told died in childbirth. As if she's drawn to Gatlin by some evil force Hannah's 19th birthday is to take place the next day Halloween. That's the same age that her father Amos was sacrificed to the "One who walks behind the Rows" by the children of the corn's whacked out leader Isaac, John Franklin.At Gatlin Hannah finds out it had became a ghost town with even the children of the corn not that much interested in the fall corn harvest and annual human sacrifice. It's then that Isaac who was supposedly killed in the original children of the corn movie and has been in a self induced coma ever since had like in the story of "Sleeping Beauty", without even being kissed by the handsome prince or princess, come alive to continue the work that he started some 15 years ago.***SPOILERS*** About the best thing in the movie is that we and Hannah finally get to see just who this mysterious "One who walks behind the Rows" really is to the shock of the children, now teenagers, of the corn's leader Isaac. Isaac has been trying to get the children of the corn to believe that he was in tight with the "One who walks behind the Rows" as him being his spokesman or messenger on earth! When in fact he was just a phony baloney trying to manipulate them to do his bidding in getting his offspring Matt, John Patrick white, to marry Hannah who's seed is to bear the next #2 man, or even woman, of the "One who walks behind the Rows" to continue this cycle of induced insanity.***MAJOR SPOILER*** As things turn out the "One who walks behind the Rows" has been on to Isaac right from the start in him being undercover as one of the children of the corn who by observing him knows every move the he's makes and is not too happy about it.Really ridicules movie that has staring in it adults, how did they escaped getting killed by the children of the corn, Stacy Keach as Gatlin's only doctor and Hannah's mom Rachel Colby, Nancy Allen, who knows the secret of her daughter carrying the seed of Amos! It's Amos who happens to be the one and only righteous successor to that fake Isaac who's been trying to get the top spot as the "One who walks behind the Rows" #1 spokesperson on earth. That since even before he was beaten into a coma by the children of the corn 15 years ago by him failing to deliver on his promises!This made me wonder why would the very people who did Isaac in back then fell for his same line of BS now knowing full well just how full of it he really is! Or had the passage of time, 15 years, caused their memories to dim and thus overlook that very important fact!

This is an unfortunate one. Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (CotC6) probably has the best cinematography, best editing, some of the best effects, and some of the creepiest scenes of any CotC film to this point, but the script is a complete mess and helmer Kari Skogland does not seem to be very skilled at directing actors.For at least the first 10-15 minutes of CotC6, I was prepared to give it at least a 9. Hannah (Natalie Ramsey) is driving to the town of Gatlin, Nebraska--the setting of the first film--and gives a ride to what turns out to be a disturbing ghost. She soon after wipes out in a cornfield, and a creepy policewoman-- nicely cast against type, takes her to a hospital to be checked out, only it's a hospital that's apparently been taken over by mental patients. This is all great stuff, well filmed, with refreshing differences from the rest of the series.But then as the dialogue and exposition increase, the film begins to fall apart. The plot brings back Isaac (John Franklin) from the first film, with Hannah playing a major role in a "He Who Walks Behind the Rows"-religion prophecy. That maybe wasn't a bad idea, but the script feels like a first or second draft. It's choppy and just doesn't make much sense. The characters are bizarre, as if scripter Tim Sulka and co-writer Franklin kept changing their minds about dispositions every two pages. Hannah will seem gung-ho about experiencing Gatlin's weirdness one minute, oddly indifferent the next, then desperate to escape, and then gung-ho . . . Isaac vacillates between innocuous and evil. Rachel's (Nancy Allen) pendulum swings between psychopathic and protective. Maybe there were two or three completely different approaches tried, but they ran out of money, so the final film was a mash-up? And Skogland doesn't help. She tends to encourage her cast to overact, she exaggerates the multiple personality feeling, and she makes sure that everything seems pretentiously stagy.