I guess we're now in Omaha, and we meet Jamie on her way to Grandmothers house. Grandmother hasn't been sending mail, taking phone calls...seems she's dropped off the face of the earth (psst...she's dead. It's not a spoiler 'cuz you weren't REALLY going to watch this movie). While filing a missing persons report, she moves in to Granny's apartment on the advice of the detective and starts seeing some creepy corn cult kids that just sort of hang around. Later we realize that they're spooky ghosts and this being a corn cult kid movie, all the adults start dropping off by their hands. One is thrown from the roof of a building, one in a wheelchair is pushed out a window (I liked that one. He was an asshole), and one poor stripper is strangled by <sigh> corn stalks while taking a bath. Why you gotta kill the stripper? What the hell, man?!?
The back story explains that the grandmother was in a corn cult when she was a kid, and was the only survivor of a tent fire. The fire started when the po-po came to shut down the tent revival/cult meeting. Rather than be shut down, the kids just killed themselves...except for granny. We also learn late in the movie that Jamie's parents and grandmother were killed as a result of surviving the fire. I guess He Who Walks Behind The Rows wanted her to be a crispy critter. Jamie's next on the list. Whoop.
Besides the typical groan-worthy moments we usually see in these B-grade movies, the biggest annoyance I had was with Michael Ironside's character. Sure, he plays a spooky priest with a down-low voice and attitude, but he's only in one scene where he speaks, and all he does is warn Jamie to leave. That's IT. He offered no help AT ALL. He knew about the corn cult kids, knew what they were trying to do to her, and did NOTHING to help or stop the kids. He just showed up and said "Yup. Here's some wine." and left. Screw that guy.
And the biggest, brightest thing about this movie? It's the last damn Children Of The Corn movie as of 10/29/2016 and I'm DONE with this franchies....for now. There's talk of an 8th film in development for 2017. Double whoop.
Sunday: The only living Corey did a movie and then tried to hide if from us...
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