Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
R | 12 September 1995 (USA)
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After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.

Reviews
RyothChatty ridiculous rating
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Realrockerhalloween Another winner in a series that knows how to innovate and keep it fresh. Children of the Corn III are two kids who bring the country to the Urban city.Daniel Cerny picks up the mantel as the new minister for he who walks behind the Rowe and recruits a new harvest of kids to kill their parents and worship his demoness.What impressed me was to see the risks they were willing to take with installment by incorporating a metropolis, a fuel out between good & evil and finally revealing what he who walks behind the rowes looks like. Even though the sock puppet looks dated compared to chi today.The storyline is a little cheesy with all the kids wearing black to represent how bad they became, but it makes up for it in characters you care about, the music, atmosphere and scares.It isn't a gore fest like some of the others and has a low body count, but it keeps you entertain all the way through no matter what ratings say.Now The only complaint I have is who is Eli? Where did He come from? His brother said they found him in the field and a book he uses as his power source?Other then those details it felt like a great entry.
bowmanblue If you've watched the first two Children of the Corn films, you'll know that they were basically the same plot. In fact, it's pretty hard to make a Children of the Corn film which doesn't revolve around a bunch of 'corn-worshiping' kids killing adults in a field.Here, however, they try to breathe new life into the franchise by changing the setting to Chicago! Gone are the cornfields of small-town America, replaced by - er - cornfields in the middle of a major US city. Yes, two orphans from the original films are relocated to foster parents in Chicago and start planting corn in the back alleys in order to bring the cult of 'he who walks behind the rows' to the masses.It could be terrible. It nearly is. First of all the film is (semi) saved by the lead youngster, who, in my opinion, is the best actor to take on the part of a demonically-possessed psychopath with supernatural powers the series has produced yet. It's kind of worth watching for him alone.The other (again, I use the word 'semi') standout point is the ending. It's weird. Seriously, if you're watching this film and you hate it - fair enough - skip to chapter 15 (I think that's the one before the last) and just watch it from there. It gets totally weird. It's like they've tacked on the ending from another horror movie. If nothing else, I'll bet it gets a laugh out of you! In short: Children of the Corn (1) was the best and most original. Part 2 was so bad it was laughably brilliant (and my favourite simply because it was so dumb). Part 3 does its best to be different. It succeeds in some places and fails miserably in others. Know that you're never going to get an Oscar-worthy epic with this one.
George Clarke I picked this up at my local Pound Store recently, and thought what the hell? Freaky corn children in the big smoke was sure to have some interesting results!And it did.Surprisingly, COTC3 was quite a well made, FX filled, darkly comic flick that had 2 great looking leads, Daniel Cerny and Ron Melendez, who pulled off the freaky and the funny quite well.Daniel Cerny, as the main devil child, was just fantastic! Probably one of the best evil child roles I've seen.For fans of classic 80's horror, you should check this out. There is still plenty of gore fun in the corn, and then some!Worth the watch!
I_can_get_you_a_toe The movie opens in Gatlin. Hello Gatlin! It's nice to see you again. Oh, hi corn! Glad you're here too.A man comes out of a trailer, drunk and holding a scythe and starts chasing his son through the corn – for what I can only assume is to chop him up into little pieces and then eat them, or maybe sell them for money. I don't know. Son runs to his little brother who's half his size and gets him to deal with it.This is how we are introduced to the hammy acting skills of Eli and his brother Joshua. Two brothers, who like all kids of Gatlin – kill their father. Thus sending Eli and Joshua to Da Hood.They move in with their foster parents, Eli bringing corn with him – and it's all magic corn that kills people.Eli and Joshua attend school and find themselves starting to grow apart, they're still sharing a bed mind you, and as Joshua proves himself on the Basketball court (where EVERYTHING counts) and makes new friends. Eli gets angry at his brother asking why he's not with him anymore and that he loves him so much and needs to be with him all the time and to never ever leave him. Well he doesn't exactly say that – but his eyes told me that's what he was feeling.So apparently Eli is all evil and I think the movie was trying to push across that he was the devil? They really need to stop coming up with convoluted and over-reaching explanations when crazy religious kids who worship some corn demon works just fine.My favourite death was of the foster mother, who tripped over a pole and impaled her skull with a piece of pipe. Awesome. The ick factor goes up slightly when you think that one of her last memories on earth were of her super young foster son tonguing her ear. Nice.As Eli starts to convert the city kids to his cracked way of thinking and to start killing off their parents – Joshua heads back to Gatlin (Yay! Gatlin) which must be just around the corner from Chicago, to save the freaking day.While no where near as crappy as Children of the Corn 2: Final Sacrifice, this only rates slightly above in terms of inventive deaths and gore. And really, set in the city? It's about CORN movie people; a 3 row corn 'field' at the back of an abandoned warehouse is not creepy at all. It's weird.Charlize Theron is an extra in this movie. She must be so proud.Next up, Children of the Corn 4: Space Corn.