Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)

Very best movie i ever watch

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is better then the first 6 movie of Children of the Corn. The first 6 movie of Children of the Corn are very scary. This is scarier. THIS THE BEST CHILDREN OF THE CORN MOVIE I HAVE SEEN. it has a great story line. IT ALSO HAS GREAT ACTING. If you are looking for really scary horror movie SEE THIS ONE. IT IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST MOVIES EVER.

They keep taking this CotC series and sending it another direction - something very far away from the original. This film basically is a film that has very, very little to do with the original. They already killed this film series with "The Gathering" (Part 4) and took it where no corn child has gone before in this 7th movie. UGH! Now I do understand why this film (Part 7) does NOT take place in Gaitlin. Part 3: Urban Harvest explains this (and it was not set in Gaitlin). Basically the corn seeds are spreading all over the world.In "Revelation" why are these kids 'ghostly'? The original film there were NO 'ghostly' kids. Just real human kids who started listening to and was influenced by Isaac! It's "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" that is the supernatural element and Isaac's relationship & contact with "He".Hey at least in this film the kids are wearing the older style clothing again (conservative religious look). If that counts for anything. I say this because I hated the way they were dressed in "Isaac's Return" - looking modern and way off base of the original story.Anyway, if you view this film as just another supernatural creepy kid film then it's easier to enjoy than to try to think of this one as a part of the CotC series.3/10

With 7 titles and 1 remake under it's belt, everybody knows that the Children of the Corn series has run it's course and is now being kept alive in attempts to bleed it for a little more money. That's not to say that they didn't try in Revelation. I watched this on Netflix expecting another painful installment like Isaac's Return but this showed slight improvement.They attempted to breathe new life into the series by trading the cornfields of small-town Nebraska for a dilapidated apartment building in small-town Nebraska; going for more of a haunted house feel than an evil children feel. The story line had potential but, unfortunately, it didn't live up. And here's why:The Children: The children are really what the movie is always about. But for some reason, the small but menacing children of the series are swapped out for more of a generally weird brand of child. The "stand there and stare" move gets less creepy the more it is used (and it's used A LOT) and starts becoming more annoying than anything. The only thing scary about the "main" evil child, Abel, is his Amish-style haircut. Although their uncanny ability to teleport makes for some creepy moments, I never really found myself being scared of the kids.The Supporting Characters: Almost every single character that we meet in the movie serves one purpose; to give the kids someone to kill while the main character, Jamie, tries to figure out what's going on. The few supporting characters who don't meet a grisly end pop up at random times during the movie until they're needed to progress the movie along.The Story: While the story has never been a strong point of the Children of the Corn series, Revelations tries a little too hard to make the story compelling. It begins with Jamie trying to find her missing grandmother. It then turns into a trip to the past where we learn that her grandmother was the sole survivor of a mass cult suicide and, in an odd reverse-butterfly effect type of motivation, the children return to kill Jamie since her grandmother was supposed to die and Jamie should not have even been born. It's a rather complex plot line for a run-of-the-mill horror movie.The Main Character: Although we follow Jamie as she frantically searches for her grandmother, we don't really feel any connection to her. Very little background is given to her character besides the fact that she lives in California and talks to her grandmother regularly. The casting director did a good job of bringing Claudette Mink on for the movie as her good looks tend to distract you from the sub-par script that they handed her. She does a good job as the concerned grand-daughter but when the action starts up, she starts to overact. You see this most obviously towards the end when she's attacked by evil corn stalks that remind many horror movie aficionados of the "tree rape" scene of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead."In the end, it was a half-way decent movie. It certainly won't win any awards but it's just creepy enough to hold your attention. And at brisk 82 minutes, it goes by pretty quick.

Whilst the rest of the world is giving us films like Dog Soldiers and The Ring we still keep churning out this genre crap - I mean does anyone really need a sixth sequel to a film no one liked in the first place. I mean who watches these...oh wait a minute I did. Shame on me.