{"id":10983,"date":"2025-02-01T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2025-02-01T19:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:59:02","slug":"children-of-the-corn-v-fields-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/02\/01\/children-of-the-corn-v-fields-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror<\/strong> (1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dimension\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 83 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (horror violence and gore)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ethan Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ethan Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Rabjohns\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: David Lewis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 21, 1998 (US, DTV)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Eva Mendes, Greg Vaughan, Angela Jones, Ahmet Zappa, Adam Wylie, Fred Williamson, David Carradine, Olivia Burnette, Matthew Tait, Dave Buzzotta, Aaron Jackson, Kane Hodder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, I have to admit Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror<\/strong> isn\u2019t too bad. It\u2019s a vast improvement over the fourth movie which isn\u2019t saying much at all since making a better movie than The Gathering isn\u2019t an impossible feat. For one thing, He Who Walks Behind the Rows is back\u2026 sort of. He\u2019s mentioned frequently but we never see him or it (as the case may be). Instead, a kid is possessed by the entity we first met as a glowing red blob in 1984 when it tried to kill Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton. This time around, it\u2019s a group of teens mourning a dead friend that find themselves in the wrong cornfield.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The movie begins with a boy, Ezekial (Wylie, Picket Fences), killing the owners of a home on the edge of a cornfield that belongs to him and his brethren, all worshipers of He Who Walks Behind the Rows. He has special powers so he\u2019s able to telepathically lift the man off the ground and electrocute him with lightning. The wife gets surrounded by a group of kids with farm tools. Bye bye, wifey!<\/p>\n

\u00a0An indeterminate amount of time later, a group of teens-Allison (Galina, Knots Landing), her boyfriend Greg (Arquette, The Wedding Singer), their friends Kir (Mendes, 2 Fast 2 Furious) and Ty (Vaughan, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction)- find themselves stranded in the town of Divinity Falls after their car is run off the road into a ditch near a huge cornfield. Ezekial and a few others appear and inform the lost travelers that they\u2019re on private property and he can\u2019t\/won\u2019t be of any help. The teens walk into town and head straight for the bar where they learn that the property is owned by a cult leader (Carradine, Lone Wolf McQuade) who takes in unwanted and\/or abused children. In a coincidence that only happens in dopey movies like this, one of them happens to be Allison\u2019s younger brother Jacob (Buzzotta) who she was forced to leave with their abusive drunken father when she ran away from home. Needless to say, their reunion isn\u2019t a joyous one.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Naturally, Allison and her friends stick around, even though the town sheriff (Williamson, Vigilante) orders them to leave a couple of times, and try to rescue Jacob. He\u2019s about to turn 18 which means he\u2019s obligated to sacrifice himself to He Who Walks Behind the Rows by jumping into a silo of flaming corn.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As far as plots go, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror<\/strong> is fairly standard. The kill scenes are pretty good. Once again, most of the deaths are by farm tools. Two characters\u2019 heads explode. A few people burn to death. It has a decent body count. The acting is no better or worse than any horror sequel. It\u2019s great seeing Carradine and Williamson in the same movie. Their one scene together is really cool. Wylie makes a good creepy kid who, for a change, doesn\u2019t dress like an Amish preacher. There\u2019s at least one plot twist you might not see coming. I didn\u2019t but only because I wasn\u2019t looking for it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Written and directed by Ethan Wiley (House II: The Second Story), Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror<\/strong> is actually pretty good for a direct-to-video horror sequel. I tend to avoid those because they\u2019re usually lame. If it\u2019s not good enough for theaters, it\u2019s certainly not worth my time. I\u2019ll make an exception with the Children of the Corn movies. They\u2019re actually kind of fun. They\u2019re junk, no two ways about it, but good dumb fun.<\/p>\n

SPECIAL NOTE: For some reason, the copy I watched shows the title as Children of the Corn 5: Field of Screams. I like that title better.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dimension\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 83 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (horror violence and gore)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ethan Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ethan Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Rabjohns\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: David Lewis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 21, 1998 (US, DTV)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Eva Mendes, Greg Vaughan, Angela Jones, Ahmet Zappa, Adam Wylie, Fred Williamson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Children-of-the-Corn-V-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}