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"Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" is the fifth in the series, and actually wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. Now I'm not saying it's great, but it wasn't a complete waste either. This film is about a group of teenage friends who happen to be driving through a small midwestern town that is home to more of the evil child cult. When they crash their car, however, and have a creepy encounter with the children who emerge from a cornfield, they decide to try and get help somewhere. They end up finding an abandoned farmhouse that is currently for sale, and decide it is perfectly okay to shack up there and raid the cupboards where the only find some Maracchino cherries. Of course, the house is right at the edge of a cornfield, where the evil kids are lurking. From there on, the friends begin to drop like flies, all meeting grisly fates from the children.

This was alright, I was expecting something much worse (I usually expect the worst from films like this). The story wasn't really original, but none of these sequels are so that doesn't really matter. The friends decide they're going to try and help the children, which is rather ridiculous. The acting was a surprise, it was actually decent. The only cast member I recognized was Eva Mendes from "Urban legends: Final Cut", the rest are pretty much unknowns. We had some good cameo appearance by David Carradine, an evil supporter of the cult, and Kane Hodder (who played Jason in some of the "Friday the 13th" films) in a minor role of a local bartender. I really didn't the movie was that bad though.

Overall, this isn't as good as "Part IV: The Gathering" was (in my opinion at least) but it was an alright follow up. Don't take it so seriously, you might enjoy it. Of course it's campy, but in a good way. 5/10.

Four friends end up in a seemingly deserted (and dangerous) town after crashing their car near at cornfield in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. The film begins with a young boy being possessed by "he who walks behind the rows". Flash forward a year from then, and the little boy Ezekiel(who hasn't aged) is in charge of the other children in town similar to Isaac in the first film, Micah in II, Eli in III and Josiah in IV. Anyways, it's revealed that one of the of friends had a brother named Jacob who began worshipping "he who walks behinds the rows" as a child after she left him to live with their abusive father years ago.

She finds out that some kids are "practising" the same belief so she, along with her friends, go to find him. They come across this sort of foster house where children live with a man named Luke. He is their adopted wards of the state. Eventually Allison finds Jacob who is under the control of Ezekiel. It's the eve of his 18th birthday, and as per Children of the Corn rules, he must die when he turns the age of an adult. Allison and the friends find out what Luke and Ezekiel have been doing and come together to put a stop to their treachery leading to a huge bloodbath.

Children of the Corn 5 is a pretty good installment to the film series. It isn't anything special, but has it's moments. The acting is pretty good and the level of gore is decent enough. I liked the ending as well to this as well. Instead of ending it in the cornfields with the survivor walking away (which usually happens), it takes us a little further in time and concludes the film in an interesting way. I recommend it to horror fans and fans of the series.

5/10

Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces!

The film features a young Eva Mendes' in her first movie. If nothing else, it seems that the "Children of the Corn" franchise was good for launching starlets' careers. Mendes follows in the footsteps of Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts.

We have some great roles filled by Kane Hodder (as a bartender), Fred Williamson (a sheriff) and David Carradine (a prophet and savior). I think Stephen King appears as a drunk guy...

I am still confused how this series was allowed to carry on for so long, but at least this one is saved by some good cameos and a fine special effects shot of a splitting head with a fireball inside. Totally did not see that coming.

This series has become a genre in itself, and therefore, people will like it or hate it. Personally, seeing the original COTC when I was growing up, it was not a great movie, but it had originality back in the era of Jason, Michael and Freddy.

It also tapped into childhood car trips into the country, with all the country sounds and smells, and of course, the claustrophobia of endless open spaces (which this movie breaks with to it's detriment, with it's mountain background), with rows and rows of corn, just too high to see over. This what the concept _does_ have going for it.

Now, it's just another vehicle for unknown actors to cut their teeth on, instead of daytime soap. Eva Mendez stands out, though, and her portrayal of Kir is both sensitive and fragile, while she is gorgeous to look at. She is being set up, though, and her killing herself over a boyfriend makes no sense whatsoever.

Because of the stale concept, there is very little suspense just there, and the director doesn't add any, either. You _know_ there is a cornfield possessed by a demon and a horde of "telepathic" children doing most of the killing for him. This being based on the 80's slasher concept, you also know that most of the protagonists are going to die. And they do. There's no suspense in that. Also, little Adam Wylie needs a lot more acting lessons.

What this series needs is more titanic battles, more ambivalent leads, more esoteric lore and simply more imagination on the part of the writers (plural). And a bigger budget too (which the original didn't have either). With the X-Files series running for 5 years now, I think there has been an over-exposure of horror, and what could shock in a movie a decade ago, now is something you're likely to see for free on week night television.

This film is the fifth in the "Children of the Corn" franchise and was released directly on video, without knowing the big screen. It was better that way, it's the weakest movie in the franchise so far, and it doesn't justify our attention, unless you like the franchise a lot or are curious enough to see it anyway.

The story told is even weaker and has even more problems of logic and credibility than the previous films, so don't even try to see the film unless you resist the temptation to think hard about what you are going to see. It all happens when six young university students (here we have this film blinking an eye at the teen films' genre) are going to spread a friend's ashes among a field of corn. However, they are caught and four of them end up at the home of a man who is using local children to organize a diabolical cult around a satanic deity. What follows is basically the youth's struggle to save children.

I think the film could hardly be worse than it is. Directed and written by Ethan Wiley, it is a boring film, unable to surprise or even interest us, and it was difficult to see it until the end and resist the temptation to stop in the middle. There is no substantial connection between this film and its predecessors, except for the use of cornfields and the devilish cult. There are no surprises or twists, and everything happens as we imagine it would. Nor were the deaths captivating this time.

The cast has some big names involved, but the dramatic work is poor and limited to the most basic. David Carradine is the best known name involved, but the truth is that he never seemed to me to be an excellent actor, and this film just confirms that opinion that I already had. He's weak and never seems to be really committed to the character. In this film, Eva Mendes made her debut as an actress, but is limited to being a pair of breasts that she talks about. Fred Williamson also appears in this film but has very little to do.

The film has no notable technical characteristics, quite the contrary. Conceived for video, it is a film that lacks cinematic elements and really smells like "television". Special and visual effects are weak and rarely used. The sets and costumes are satisfactory, but uninteresting. Cinematography is televised, to say the least.

New kid in the cornfield Adam Wylie (as Ezeekial) receives a blast of fire and becomes "Children of the Corn" leader. One year later, his gang kills an elderly couple, so the new cast can move in and start to struggle with the supernatural force. After some comic killings, the film focuses on four college students. The main star is Stacy Galina (as Allison), who has an actual connection to the "Children of the Corn" series in that her brother left home, saying he was going to join "He who walks behind the rows." Leading man is Alexis Arquette (as Greg). Convincing herein as a male character, Ms. Arquette has since changed her gender to female...

The second tier is model perfect looking Greg Vaughan (as Tyrus) and his likewise attractive love interest Eva Mendes (as Kir). The two couples go to scatter the ashes of their dead friend "Kurt" near the cornfield, which first appeared in Stephen King's story. How this relates to anything is a mystery unsolved. The four become stranded in town after an automobile mishap. In small roles, David Carradine and Fred Williamson add more dollars to their acting income. This is the fifth in a series of movies loosely based on his story. Out of ideas, the story simply recycles material from unrelated horror films. The familiar ending suggests more of the same.

**** Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (6/21/98) Ethan Wiley ~ Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Greg Vaughan, Eva Mendes

Though the Children of the Corn franchise has hardly been ground breaking they have been consistently passable.............just. This one failed to live up to my already low expectations despite the fact it had the best opening advantage from the start.

You see Field Of Terror has a very impressive cast and was Eva Mendes very first movie role. It also stars Jason Voorhees himself Kane Hodder, acting legend Fred Williamson, Charmed actor Greg Vaughan, auto erotic asphyxiation aficionado David Carradine and late Arquette acting family member Alexis.

Its also apparent that the movie had a higher budget, unless of course it was all spent on that roster.

It once again tells the story of the evil children controlled by He Who Walks Behind The Rows! Though this time it gives no explanation how they came to be for the umpteence time.

Sadly the plot is really quite poor, the execution is slow and lacking and the whole movie comes across really dull which is one thing I didn't expect.

Maybe the Children of the Corn candle is burning out, this is the fifth movie after all. It just surprises me that 5 movies in the film gets a solid cast and fails to utilize them.

Definetly a weak link.

The Good:

Interesting cast ensemble

Arquettes final scene

The Bad:

Really quite boring

Naff ending

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

If the franchise's movies followed on as a proper series they'd have likely been more successful

Nobody taught the lead actress to hold babies heads up

So far ,I have enjoyed the other 4 movies, at the moment 3rd is my favourite.

Now I just see Children of The Corn 5 - Fields of Terror (1998)

This movie was really dull for me, It had some descent well know actors in this movie, as well,The acting was good! ,there 3 points for that

The story and the plot was really dull and I can't believe that a Hour went pass and nothing scary actually happened or anything too draw me into the drama .

There was only one scenes, had some nice gory deaths and the final showdown was really boring and to quick!

The ending was way to cheesy and it did not fit in with the rest of the movie as I did not find the rest of this movie cheesy.

2 out of 10 for me this is the worst of the series so far!

This film begins with a young man and woman driving on a highway somewhere through the Great Plains and eventually stopping at a gas station near the town of Divinity Falls. While the young man is busy laying down a road marker for some friends in another car to follow the young woman decides to venture out into a nearby cornfield. When she doesn't return the man subsequently decides to go and look for her. Not long afterward, both of them are killed. Meanwhile, the other car has an accident and gets stuck in a ditch not far from Divinity Falls. Unable to convince some local kids to help them out they walk to Divinity Falls where the local sheriff advises them to get on the next bus out of town. Unfortunately for them, they don't take his advice. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an adequate horror film for the most part due which benefited from the inclusion of some decent actors like David Carradine (as "Luke") and Eva Mendez ("Kir"). It also featured a couple of twists here and there with Kir's decision to readily join the cult somewhat of a surprise. Admittedly, it could have used a bit more suspense, but all things considered I found it worth the time spent and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

The Children of the Corn-series is by no means a great series but still I never quite understood the extremely low ratings all of the movie received here on IMDb. Surely there are far worse genre series and movies to watch out there, though I also must say that this movie is the least one of the series that I've seen so far.

Basically the movie adds too little to the long running series. There are no real surprises, when you've seen one or more movies out of the series already. With its story the movie also makes very little attempt to impress. It tries to be more different with its approach and characters this time.

Horror movies always have been very popular with teenagers. It's also the reason why there are lots of movies out there that feature teenage characters in the lead roles. Those movies however are also rarely among the best that the genre has to offer. This Children of the Corn entry also felt to need to step in on this horror movie making trend, by throwing in a couple of high school student characters into the Children of the Corn franchise. It's all pretty pointless, since it adds so little new or interesting to the franchise and as a matter of fact only brings the movie down even more.

Horror-wise this movie is also obviously lacking. There are only some decent looking effects and gore that can be seen as a redeeming quality. However not quite enough to safe the movie its horror really. Not that any of the Children of the Corn movies have even been really scary or effective with its horror or concept, with the exception of "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice".

It's always fun to see how these now famous actors pop up in this horror-movies early in their careers. Guess they don't often want to be remembered at it, as would be the case with Eva Mendes with this movie. Here whole character and her subplot just isn't really powerful or interesting enough to work out. Still I wished she was more in the movie because I definitely preferred her above Stacy Galina but this was probably always because of her looks of course. Also Kane Hodder and David Carradine show up in some small roles and also they feel pretty pointless but this is probably also due to the overall story, which just seemed pretty pointless in general.

All in all, another really pointless sequel within the Children of the Corn franchise, that really seemed to run out of good ideas pretty early on in the series already. So do these movies really make that much money to justify all those sequels that got released to it?

4/10

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Before I start getting complaints, or at least dumbfounded looks, from people who strongly disagree with my rating, I should explain a number of ways in which I'm biased here:

* I'm an easy date when it comes to horror films in general--as long as they're technically competent, they're almost guaranteed a 5 out of 10 from me.

* I have a soft spot for long-running series. The more horror films the better if you ask me, and never-ending series seem to agree with me.

* I'm a HUGE Frank Zappa fan, so the excitement of seeing both Ahmet and Diva Zappa in the same film--and with a bit of Frank-like blow-up doll action, no less--brings my score up a notch. (My only question is why didn't they have Diva's character kill Ahmet's character?)

* As soon as Eva Mendes appears on screen, I fall in love and become hypnotized. By the way, great decision on the wardrobe, Mr. Wiley.

* I'm a big fan of "B-movie" warhorses like David Carradine and Fred Williamson.

And aside from those biases, this isn't at all a bad film, even if it can be a bit predictable. It's consistent with the Children of the Corn mythos--in so far as the mythos makes sense in general--and also extends it nicely. I can't say whether the film is scary, as I don't really find that quality in any film, but it certainly was entertaining, and the Teflon coating on the main protagonist, Allison (Stacy Galina) was an unusual touch.

I first saw this in the late 90s on cable tv.

Revisited it recently.

This is the 5th in the series n it is fast paced n filled with lottuva body count n has some very known faces.

This movie is the feature film debut of Eva Mendes.

The movie also has David Carradine, Kane Hodder n Fred Williamson.

When the firefighter climbs up to extinguish the fire, the metallic railings break as if its wooden. Nice direction.

So much commotion happens n a guy doesn't hear a thing but busy repairing a car. Another good one.

Our little Ezeekial is not terrifying at all! So far he is by far the lamest of the preacher/reverend kids. No real sermon, nothing much to do and not in the least scary. What's worse about this film is the fact the kids now have an adult leader who "cares for them": Luke Enright played by David Carradine. I like David Carradine fine so that's not my problem - it's just the kids are suppose to have another child leader/prophet and not a *special* adult to supervise - that really takes away from the heart-line of the story.

More to rag on: The 4 20-somethings... they look nowhere near being teenagers (they look mid 20s to early 30s to me) and the one girl claiming to be almost 18 (Kir) that is really stretching it. Well I guess our little Ezeekial is gullible or simply was willing to sacrifice anyone that day to "He Who Walks Behind The Rows".

And what's up with that tower? Where in the heck is the eerie corn crosses to crucify the "infidels" or "non-believers"? This is going way off base again.

They also stretched out the ending way to long - I didn't care for it.

I will say there are a couple of okay scenes in this one and I did chuckle at the campy deaths (again) and dingy moments of the main characters.

3/10

This one is the best so far, by far, it actually holds your interest unlike the other films with the exception of part III that holds your interest all the way up to the lamest ending of all times. Part V stays with it's farmlike and ccountrylike setting and is yet another story of a child who teaches about "He who walks behind the rows" (not rose for some of you calling it that) and he brings a bunch of kids ranging from 12-18 to serve "He who walks behind the rows" by killing the adults and anyone who will not join or threatens them, etc. There are 4 characters that we concentrate on all the way 'til the end of the movie which has the best ending in the series with more excitment muck like "Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice" 's ending. I won't spoil it for you but for once all this phsyco kids that follow him are gona get what they deserve. Part 6 in the series comes out 10/19/99 and will have the return of Issac (part 1) and hopefully will end the series because it is getting old, but if it's anything like this one fell free to make some more sequels. *** stars

Some of the film is pretty decent but the bad pats are REALLY bad. Like the special effects. There are 5 (FIVE) things that make this movie a film you don't bail on:

1. Fred Williamson with an accent that almost made me question it was him.

2. David Carradine who, let's face it, was never a particularly good actor and here literally sits through his role.

3/4. Eva Mendez's chest in a tight little cotton dress.

5. Alexis Arquette who sports a goatee and plays a guy named Greg. He actually wasn't an all that bad actor until he went off the deep end and started wearing dresses and give oral to Marilyn Manson.

Granted, despite now in 2023 being the first time for me to watch the 1998 movie "Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" for the first time, I have to admit that I wasn't harboring much expectations. Why? Well, parts III and IV weren't exactly top of their game in terms of being entertaining. But still, as part of the "Children of the Corn" marathon, I am working my way through all the movies, and thus I got to part V.

Writer and director Ethan Wiley managed to move the franchise even further away from the essential core of the franchise, as established in parts I and II. So I have to say that "Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" wasn't really an impressive or all that entertaining foray into the franchise. However, I am sure that the diehard fans of the franchise will enjoy this movie from writer and director Ethan Wiley.

Despite of having a mediocre storyline, I was impressed with the cast ensemble in this 1998 movie. There were a great number of familiar faces on the screen in bigger and smaller roles, with the likes of Eva Mendes, Fred Williamson, David Carradine, Gary Bullock and even Kane Hodder.

For a horror movie, I have to say that writer and director Ethan Wiley was deviating quite a lot from the source material. And "Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" wasn't really a scary movie, not even remotely.

Having seen "Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" now, I can tick it off of the list. However, I can in all honesty say that I am not returning to watch it a second time.

My rating of "Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Lazily written and cheaply recorded, pathetic collection of clichés. There are a couple of interesting scenes and Eva Mendes (for those who like her).

4/4

A group of idiotic college students,on their way to a mutual friend's funeral, stop in an isolated Nebraska town where they have to contend with psychotic kids with sickles who worship a ball of fire.

Having jack all to do with the previous four films (much like part 4 had jack all to do with the previous three), this strictly by-the-numbers slasher film is chock full of idiot 'teenagers' doing moronic things (IE going into cornfields alone, staying at abandoned houses, etceteras) is only notable whatsoever in somehow getting David Carradine, and Kane Hodder involved in this travesty. Also it's Eve Mendes first (but sadly wasn't her last) film role. This film isn't worth your time, well it IS a COTC film so that's a big enough tip off to leave it be, but i'm a glutton for punishment.

My Grade: D-

Adam While As the Child was not bad !Adam While is a good actor:-) He's the only good thing came up on my head. The story sucked !I just want to say if you have heartattack ,do not watch this movie ! It's terrible scary !!!! I don't think the story was good,but very scary. I 've seen the first one & the 2nd. They were much better ! If you are fan of Adam While,you could take a look :-) Otherwise keep out :-(

Unlike many people who apparently don't like the Children of the Corn sequels, I happen to believe this is the best one of the series, I simply love this film, I think it is a great Slasher flick, not scary, just lots of fun, the cast was atractive,it was well acted, it has several familiar faces and there was MORE blood and special effects THAN in a lot of recent mainstream movies.

"Children of the Corn 5:Fields of Terror" is actually better than the following entry "Children of the Corn 666".The acting is pretty good and the cameos by Fred Williamson,David Carradine and Kane Hodder are nice to see.The pacing is decent and there's a bit of gore.So if you like slasher/splatter movies give this one a look-I still think that Fritz Kiersch's "Children of the Corn" is the best of the series!My rating:6 out of 10.