Someone please yank the rights from Dimension!!!

I just sat through this garbage, and I can say it's easily one of the worst entries in the series. The storyline, which insults the viewer's intelligence, sets the events of the first film in the 70s (sorry, that only works for the short story - if you go by the original film's timeline, the events at the beginning happened in 1981). The storyline with Burt and Vicky happens "present day" (1984) and the previous events in Gatlin are said to have happened 3 years prior. Anyway...

So this film doesn't even take place in Gatlin or any other part of Nebraska - instead it takes place in a rural section of California not far from Victorville where a young married couple's car has broken down. They walk to a nearby ramshackle house where they encounter a seedy old man and his mail-order Eastern European bride. There's apparantly a child locked in a separate barn/garage on the property that's possessed (we're led to believe it has something to do with He Who Walks Behind The Rows). Of course, the kid is the child of the old man and his Euro bride.

The old man says that what happened in Gatlin happened while he was away fighting in "the war" (which one would that be, exactly??) and when he came home he found his entire family had been killed. I'm not sure if that's what supposedly happened at the beginning of this 'movie' when a soldier comes home ("20 miles from Gatlin") and finds his family has been killed and some weird girl (badly inter-spliced with flashes of an Asian boy) with bad lipstick and crazy hair stabs him and he falls out a window and is then surrounded by children while he lays on the lawn. This entire sequence takes place before the title appears.

The ending makes no sense (spoiler alert) - the young couple gets away by stealing a cop van (the cop came in the night and was whisked away by an unseen force), the little boy in the shed kills his mom after she gives him a toy tow-truck filled with cars, which he then plays with and makes the cars fly off of an actual truck and hit the couple in the cop van. The husband dies and wife is taken back to live with the old man, the weird little shack boy and a plethora of wives and children the old guy collected. It ends with the little boy playing with a corn doll and making it fall to the ground, which cuts to the absent cop falling out of the sky and hitting the ground.

Okay - this thing was absurd. The whole mythology of "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" was pitifully downplayed and turned into a bad Paranormal Activity/Exorcist rip off with a posessed kid. To add insult to injury, there's a special feature on the BluRay (yes, I actually rented this trash on BluRay because my Blockbuster was out of the DVD) with the pompous director talking about how he wanted to "take the series in a new direction." What direction might that be, exactly? Out of Nebraska, away from any actual cornfields (or other children)? Seriously, what the hell did I just watch, because it in no way can be called a Children of the Corn sequel. I can't believe that Dimension is still trying to milk the title, especially when it hasn't made an entry to the series in 10 years and the last one was so painfully bad (2001's "Revelations"; Dimension had nothing to do with the SyFy Channel 'reboot' from 2009 - that POS was entirely the fault of Donald Borchers who produced the original film and wanted it to be "more like the short story," but instead it was just a watered-down made-for-cable forgettable piece of schlock).

Here's my question: when will it end? Dimension does this every few years - goes through their catalogue and churns out another awful direct-to-DVD piece of crap sequel simply because they no longer have any original ideas. I'm cringing at the thought of the new Hellraiser coming out in October (which, thankfully, Doug Bradley had the sense to say 'no' to). Can some other film company please buy out Dimension already and put an end to this?? So many of my favorite horror series have gone to piss with Dimension at the helm: Children of the Corn, Hellraiser, Halloween, etc (don't even get me started on remakes)...