Children of the Corn Part III: Urban Harvest

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Hickox</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Dode B. Levinson</B></div> <div> <B>Music.................Daniel Licht</B></div> <div> <B>Producers........Gary DePew & Brad Southwick</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography.....Gerry Lively</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Anthony L.V. Hickox</B></div> <div> <B>Creature Make-up Effects by Screaming Mad George</B></div> <div> <B>Additional Special Effects by Kevin Yagher</B></div> <div> <B>Based Upon the Short Story "Children of the Corn" by Stephen King</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Eli......................Daniel Cerny</B></div> <div> <B>Joshua...............Ron Melendez</B></div> <div> <B>William Porter...Jim Metzler</B></div> <div> <B>Amanda.............Nancy Lee Grahn</B></div> <div> <B>Malcolm.............John Clair</B></div> <div> <B>Maria..................Mari Morrow</B></div> <div> <B>Father Frank.......Michael Ensign</B></div> <div> <B>Earl.....................Duke Stroud</B></div> <div> <B>Arnold.................Riff Hutton</B></div> <div> <B>T-LOC..................Garvin Lunches</B></div> <div> <B>Derelict Man........Johnny Legend</B></div> <div> <B>Diane..................Gina St. John</B></div> <div> <B>Samantha............Yvette Freeman</B></div> <div> <B>Jake....................Brian Peck</B></div> <div> <B>Charles................James O'Sullivan</B></div> <div> <B>Employer.............Rance Howard</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Welcome back (briefly) to Gatlin, population 123. Who lives here after the last two films? The old horror movie real estate trope takes care of that problem. You can get a farm in Gatlin for a handful of magic beans. Fine acting, particularly by Jim Metzler as the father and Danial Cerny as scary Eli. Likewise, nice pace and fine direction and production values. The story of scary Eli and his Kmer Rouge legion of innocents planning to wipe out the adults works as well, if not better than in the other two film, primarily because Cerny is a believable preacher. His effectiveness is another good reason why adults are physically superior to children. The majority of the special effects are not only good but chilling. The opening scarecrowfixion is truly scary, particulary the sowing of drunk fathers eyes and lips, and the partial ripping out of his arms. Which leads us to the effects which were not outstanding, and are truly worth a look for a laugh. All that work, all that tension build up, and a model of a rubber corn demon pops out of the rows and plays with a bunch of painted armymen in the finale. It would have been a huge disappointment, had we not been howling. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A drunk farmer rushes into the field to punish his teen son, Joshua. Younger adopted son Eli has seen enough of the abusive farmer and informs Joshua he'll take care of him. Eli pulls out a case with a pentagram on it. He sets down a suitcase and steps back as corn stalks rip the father apart, bind him, and crucify him scarecrow style on a cross which pops out of the ground, before his eyes and lips are sewn by invisible forces. As the boys move along, Joshua is quite unaware of what has just happened. Eli's bible is swallowed up by the ground. The two boys are adopted by two almost forty-something yuppies in Chicago, Alice and William Porter. Despite William's initial warnings to take care around his philistine knick-knacks, Joshua manages to shatter a rather expensive piece within minutes of entering the house and William is irritated at the boy's clumsiness. As they prepare to dig in for pizza, Eli insists upon grace, and the yuppies are ignorantly charmed by his prayer to "he behind the rows" whom Eli urges to painfully punish non-believers. Eli is disappointed to hear that there is no corn growing in the garden. Joshua speaks with the black neighbors, but is quickly warned away by William. Emanda opens Eli's suitcase, and finds it swarming with bugs. However, when William checks the suitcase, he finds only lovely ears of corn. William and Emanda check in on the boys that night and are charmed to see they are sleeping in the same bed. Later, Eli sneaks out through the wall and finds an empty lot nearby. He opens his suitcase and begins a ritual, throwing pieces of corn into the lot, setting tree hee who walks behind the corn. The effect is that Emanda dreams of having her tongue bit off by William. Eli objects to a new shirt Emanda has bought for Joshua, and they retain their rueful garb. Eli and Josh immediately get into a conflict with a black youth, but the knife fight is averted. Joshua strikes up a friendship with one of the girls, and then gets into a basketball game and immediately is a big hit. However, fun and games are over. That night in bed, Eli is adamant that he not play any more basketball. The corn is growing fast. In spite of Eli's warning, Joshua continues to play hoop. Emanda spies Eli coming thorough the fence. She also notices that her roses are wilting. She goes through the fence, searching for where Eli has gone and stumbles on his little corn field. She soon realizes that there is something wrong with the corn. Later, Emanda insists that William cut the corn patch down. Though resistent, he soon agrees to. He heads over to cut down the corn, but Eli stops him. A street person who has wandered into the field is now himself planted and feeding the corn with his bodily fluids. Eli plants cockroaches in the priest's area and soon he spits out his soup along with a cockroach and bloody slime. That night he dreams of the original murders at Gatlin. Eli talks during the sermon and the priest allows him to preach. The rattled priest finally gets him to stop. Later, Eli is punished and he taunts the priest about his soup. A social worker has uncovered something about Eli and just before she is able to do anything about it, Eli shows up at the center, and she is soon Eli giggles as she burns before his eyes. Emanda has had enough, and decides to cut down the corn once and for all. However, she is soon grabbed by a corn stalk and dragged across the field. She breaks free, runs into the warehouse and falls on a water pipe impaling her head: bloody water flows from her mouth. The Priest is haunted by nightmare bvisions of the original slaughter in Gatlin. On his is scrawled in magic marker: "The harvest is coming". The priest is given the cold sholder by all of his students and haunted by visions of Ely preaching of the traitors, who "know who they are". Joshua shows bitch a drawing he found under Ely's bed of the family with the mother crossed out. She tells him he could inform father Nolan, but he invokes the brother clause. Joshua makes out with bitch and asks "How do I hit a home run", when they are interrupted by Malcolm. A discussion with Malcolm afterward, reveals that Malcolm despises Ely. He tells Joshua that the school kids are all at Ely's sermon. Nig interrupts Ely's sermon with his switch blade and chases Ely into the corn where Ely knocks him to the grouund,. The homelessman's head eats his hand before Ely agrees to pray with him. At the school, Father Nolan finishes his Sermon on revekation before flying into a rage. The children whistle and laugh as he marches out. As Nolan talks to the head counselor, the counselor praises the change toward nmorality at the school, ie., no smoking in the bathroonm. Malcolm asks Joshua what became of Ely's parents. The answer is they dissappeared. Malcolm asks "Like your father/". Ely's sermons continue. Joshua contemplatws among the rows then rushes back to Ely demanding to know what happened to his father--Eli makes it clear that he's dead. Father Nolan dreams of children with execurtioners sacks over their heads coming to their paents and burning them to death in a corn field. He awakens screaming. Joshua receives a letter that was sent for Emanda. He goes to Malcolm with it, the only one who hasn't given in to Eli. He finds that pcitrues in the newspaper from 1964 have Eli's face on it. There's something very wrong. They rush off to tell father Nolan. Father Nolan is currently being intervied by Eli, and it isn't going well for him, as he's been crushed between two pews. What's worse, he's been crucified upside down, and attacked by the animated madonna. Father Nolan learns that Eli is vulnerable through his bible. He tells Joshua and Malcolm to destroy "his bible" with his dying breath. Malcolm and Joshua head off to Gatlin as William signs his deal for the distribution of the corn that Eli is so pleased will get to children all over the world. Eli brings his corn to Maria's house, and her parents are soon spilling corckroaches from fissures in their bodies. Joshua finds the bible buried beneath his father's crucified body. The corpse soon animates and attacks them. Malcolm soon falls prey to the roots and has his spinal chord ripped out, but Joshua escapes with the pentagramal bible in hand. Eli preaches as the harvest room rises. A drunken William arrives as Eli proclaims the millenium. William is sickled. Joshua arrives with the bible and has deduced that the bible was a part of the worm and he must destroy both of them at once. He manages to get a sickle through both the bible and Eli. However, he who walks behind the rowsrises from beneath. Her starts destroying everyone around him, but is susceptible to his roots being cut, and Joshua cuts him down. Sadly, the last scene shows tons of corn being opened and a German buysiness man satisfied with the delivered produc and the promise that "This is just the beginning".</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>