Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

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Price (To Die for 2: Prince of Darkness)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......A.L. Katz & Gilbert Adler</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Daniel Licht</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Scott A. Stone & David G. Stanley</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer......Lawrence Mortorff</B></div> <div> <B>Based on Steven King's Short Story "Children of the Corn"</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up Special Effects by Bob Keen</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Garrett.........Terence Knox (Humanoid Defender, Lies, Tour of Duty)</B></div> <div> <B>Danny...........Paul Scherrer </B></div> <div> <B>Micah...........Ryan Bollman</B></div> <div> <B>Lacey...........Christie Clark</B></div> <div> <B>Angela..........Rosalind Allen (To Die for 2: Son of Darkness)</B></div> <div> <B>Ned Bear........Ned Romero (The Deerslayer, Last of the Mohicans)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Appleby.....Ed Grady (The Last Game)</B></div> <div> <B>Hollings........John Bennes </B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Blaine..Wallace Merck</B></div> <div> <B>Simpson.........Joe Inscom</B></div> <div> <B>Mary Simpson....Kelly Bennett</B></div> <div> <B>McKensie........Rod Treveiler</B></div> <div> <B>Bobby...........Leon Pridoen</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Burke......Marty Terry</B></div> <div> <B>Mordechei.......Ted Travelstead</B></div> <div> <B>Jedediah........Sean Bridgers</B></div> <div> <B>Naomi...........Audrey Dollar</B></div> <div> <B>Ruth............Kristy Angell</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Pace! Here's what. The poetic rhythm of biblical names don't a chilling religious cult make. This film is more disappointing than the first in its portrayal of the cult, and if possible, the deity plays a more convoluted and unnecessary role. The kids are just impossible to watch and the  special effects are terrible. A colored negative shot signifying the presence of the evil thing doesn't cut it. The vortex, the big effect featured in the ads is also boring, but worse, it doesn't fit. The special effects seem to be simply tinting the film with colors. This also suggest an utterly inappropriate modernism. What is needed is an old fashioned devil to go along with the Salem Witchcraft theory that bad grain from 1691 caused the witch hunt of 1692, the theory underlying this lame-assed sequel. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Corpses are found in a cavern. News reporters report that 55 dead have been found. Isaac Koner was the leader of a group. The children can only say that they saw the corn. A doctor does a brief check on the kids. An older woman notes that these children might still be dangerous. A camera crew is driving in and it looks like they are getting confused about directions. They take a shortcut through the corn rows. They run into a rather dour woman who has a bed and breakfast. The mean news crew is drawn into the corn again and soon a bizarre cloud hangs over them and then wind and lightning attack. They are killed by corn stalks driving through their windshield. Huh? There is then an utterly unprepared father son conflict. The son, off on his own now, is made to feel a fool by a beautiful blonde on a moped and heads back to the bed and breakfast. Is someone calling for Mordechei and Jedediah. A boy is sucked into an evil vortex. Mordechei, now evil, tells some kids out in the corn that he who walks behind the rows will come. Mordechei announces that "they were adults." The kids arrive at the skeptical lady's house. A cross of green slime has marked her house. The son watches the girl who mocked him showering in a waterfall. It appears they're an item. The old lady looks like she's in trouble. She's under the house and says "What a world' before the house crushes down on her. that's an utterly unprepared and boring citation. The son is going on to the knockout blonde about his troubles with his father. She admits her parents are dead: not at the hands of the Gatlin crowd. During the fire and brimstone speech, Mordechei digs into a voodoo doll and one of the parishioners begins spurting blood to the horror of the congregation. Although this is a horrifying scene, it was not much prepared for. Mordechei stalks out of the chapel, his work done. Stupid father (John Garrett) is in a school in Gatlin hoping to get some information for his news story. He sees children's drawings of people in the corn. Something mysteriously falls from the ceiling and then an Indian appears (Frank red bear). Frank says that it's Quoyanisquatsi--life out of balance. He produces some sweeping generalizations about the white man not understanding about man and nature. And then agrees that the kids "went ape shit and killed everyone". He explains that he can be found as Professor Redbear in the university. The trump card. Mordechei explains that in his home all sins were cause for beating and then he found his father in bed with the farm hand's wife. John goes to a doctor to find out what the green mold was that formed the cross on the woman's door. The doctor explains that the woman's husband had walked out on her and she's been skittish ever since. John asks if he thinks the kids there had anything to do with what's happened. He notes that They talk about the corn. John's looked up Professor Redbear again and they slog around in some swamps. Redbear brings him to an Indian holy place. A legend has it that farmers lived here long ago and became lazy. After abuse, the children rebelled killing the parents. A spirit will open the corn and let one through who sees the truth. A predator style watcher watches them from the bush. The doctor at his desk at night and there are bumps. The children have arrived. They proclaim that he shall suffer for the sins of others. He is bludgeoned and needled. John and the bed. The son walks by and notes that he is sinning most vigorously (Bill and Teddish). The son notes there is activity in the corn. A ritual is performed in which two kids are cut on the hand, joining Gatlin and Hemmingford. Danny is found out and he is taken on as a soldier of he who walks behind the rows. Not realizing that Hemmingford is now joined with Gatlin, the mocker draws Danny out into the corn for some fornication. Before they get very far, they find some body parts. Meanwhile, John and Redbear find corn with a toxic mold on it that drives people, particularly children mad. There is some evidence as the pack gets a hold of the crippled woman's remote and set her up to be hit by a truck. Unfortunately, the corrupt cop wants to sell the corn. They get away and horribly mangle Einstein's "doesn't play dice" claim, as Redbear says there's some higher power behind it. At a town meeting, Mary Simpson claims something's gotten hold of the children. The children show up and chain the door. As they say the prank's over, kids, gasoline is spread. Danny is inducted in in a ritual. Danny's task is to sacrifice the girl. John and Redbear show up in the tractor in the nick of time. Unfortunately, something's burrowing through the soil and they are caught again. Some cheap pyrotechnics but Redbear revives enough to suck Mordechei into the thresher.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>