31 Days of Horror 2023 Day 15 Children of the Corn 2023

 

TITLE-Children of the Corn 2023

SOURCE-RLJE DVD

So I lost count a bit ago on how many CotC films there are now. I didn't even know this one was out until earlier this year when a buddy was going through every film in the series.

Made in Austrailia in 2020 and sitting on the shelf until 2023,when it appears RLJE and Shudder got ahold of the film. This is a reboot/remake  of this long running franchise. So that makes what 2 remakes so far?

Teen comes out of cornfields. Tells little girl "Nothing ever dies in the cornfield". Then goes inside a children's home. Starts slaughtering the adults. 

Since the local cops think he is holding the kids hostage they pump in a gas to knock the killer out. Which kills all the kids.

Skip ahead a year or 2. We meet out lead. Bo,who is 17 and leaving the dying town in a few weeks. She tries to talk one of her few friends into leaving. But he has other plans.

Bo stumbles on a bunch of the younger kids playing in the cornfield. With Eden,the little girl from the beginning of the film,leading the kids. Eden is a huge fan of the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.

It doesn't take long before these kids have taken over the town. They put piles of the adults in jail. Gas a few others then bury then in a pit to feed the corn. We Red Queen Eden asking for "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"

The various theories mentioned in the films before this come back. He who walks behind the rows,the corn mold from part 2. And unless my memory is faulty this is the first time we get a good long look at He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

Overall not a bad film. Better than about half the previous films in the series. And equal to a pile of the previous films. Not the best,that is still 2 or 4. And not the worst that so far is 7. 

Ok acting,the kids are all not bad. Decent gore,with a few shoddy CGI fx. And all the big action scenes are good,with the explosions in the end looking a bit shoddy.

Children of the Corn 2023 gets a B-.