Children of the Corn 5: Fields of Terror
"We're not lost, just, uh...stupid." - Greg
release year: 1998
genre: horror
viewing setting: home DVD, 6/6/22
synopsis: Some teenagers have car trouble in a town whose cornfields contain a cult of evil children.
impressions: There were some genuinely creepy moments, I'll give it that...lots of deaths by farm implement. Somehow this one kept me occupied more than the previous one. There was of course the expected character stupidity: people wander away for no reason and without telling their friends, they just camp out in a vacant house that's obviously got someone living there, the one girl is nearly-brainless as she falls in with the cult after about a minute of reading their book (and I didn't even know she could read, such was the intelligence level on display.) The main evil kid had some sort of telekinetic/pyrokinetic powers at the beginning of the movie, but failed to use them after that. Still...it was a passable "people get stuck in a bad place and have to fight to survive" entry in this genre.
body count: 17 confirmed (8 by weapons, 6 by fire, 3 by explosion)
early appearance alert: A young Eva Mendes is one of the kids.
acting: Stacy Galina is the main girl, and Alexis Arquette is the most annoying of the others. David Carradine is here, for some reason, as the apparent leader of the cult. Fred Williamson is also here, as a sheriff who mostly isn't helpful. Kane Hodder has a brief appearance as a bartender.
final word: Corny yet mildly entertaining horror/slasher cheese.
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