Which ones would you consider essential? I don't want to wade through almost a whole day's worth of direct-to-video trash.
I was thinking of maybe just seeing the three titled "Children of the Corn" that are simply the adaption and reboots of the original story and skipping the many sequels/prequels?
Apologies why not write…a couple of my posts in this thread were meant for another movie for the MCMC.
I goofed up🤓
The first one is the best for sure
The only ones I would recommend if you're interested just to see some actresses before they were famous are Part IV: The Gathering with Naomi Watts who is the star and Part V: Fields of Terror which has Eva Mendes
I can actually help you out a bit here since I've watched several of them within the last year.
First off, let me premise my recommendations by saying that these movies suck. I don't mean that ironically like Manos the Hands of Fate or something, or so bad it's good, but these movies are pretty much shit and I wouldn't recommend them in general.
With that said:
The first is the best in the sense that is it the closest thing in the series to being a reasonably decent quality movie. It's not great by any means, but it has a novel premise, the acting is salvageable and watching a grown man beat up the cult kids is good for some laughs.
Part two is campy as hell and is completely taken over by the lead kid corn prophet who delivers one of the most laughably bad performances I can remember in a movie. Like, imagine getting a kid who already terribly overacts in high school Shakespeare plays being high as shit off of coke, nine red bulls and meth talking so intensely that you are concerned that it could lead to an aneurysm. The performance was so fucking bad that the kid was punished with having to play the character named "Dog" in The Neverending Story 3 a few years later, another absolute piece of shit movie. Anyway long story short it sucks, but watching it for the kid could possible be entertaining, even though I never intend to again.
Three and four are basically serviceable made for TV 90's B movies. I'd say three is probably my favorite of the series because everything comes together to give make it a solid 6/10 movie compared to utter trash that is the average film in this series. Four is comparable as a throwaway made for TV 90's B movie, though slightly worse than three, but it does have Naomi Watts who is probably the best lead in the series.
From this point on they are all on the same level of being garbage that isn't worth your time unless you somehow have gained an interest in hearing shitty actors say "he who walks behind the rows" on repeat for about 90 minutes a pop. The only one I might recommend is six and that's only because the weird looking main prophet kid from the first movie comes back alive in some moronic dumbshit way, but it does connect to the first so I reluctantly give it a recommendation.
I didn't watch anything passed seven, but seven was a totally unredeemable turd of a film and you might as well be watching Star Wars fan fiction at that point.
Anyway I hope that helps.
Very helpful indeed! I really appreciate this in-depth assessment. It's going to save me a lot of time. I am pretty curious now about the corn kid prophet in part 2. Sounds like a hoot!
shareI'm glad I could help. I was pretty inebriated when I wrote that last night but what I said still applies. Hope you enjoy watching the kid in part two.
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