Eric Stevenson I believe this was the first direct to video sequel in the "Children Of The Corn" series. Direct to video sequels are rarely good and it makes sense for a series that was never good to begin with. It's amazing how ridiculous this film gets. The plot is that two boys from the town where the first two movies took place have been adopted. The younger boy grows corn which somehow makes him mind control a bunch of other kids, although they don't really make that clear. This movie actually features people being horribly mutilated by cornstalks.There's this one priest characters who I swear looks like John Cleese. Kind of ironic considering he's a critic of religion. The dumbest part is at the very end where they use these bad special effects to show the kid throwing fireballs (!) at his brother with his scythe. It gets much dumber as we seem to see the thing that's been hiding underground the past movies. It looks like some giant mole rat with multiple appendages. The effects are horrendous and the story is just stupid. *1/2

omp9 This time there isn't a bunch of kids we follow, there is just those two, and one of them is is just there for the sub-plot (that include brother rivalry and a love interest), as he is Eli's half brother. Eli has a history of worshiping "he who walks behind the rows" and killing parents before he was adopted into a family where he gets his half brother, and now once again he is adopted for the second time after killing his last adoptive parents. This time Eli is starting a new life in the suburbs of Chicago. It doesn't take long before he starts growing his own cornfield in an old closed down factory next to his home, and then it don't take long before he gets a little group of corn cult worshiping children again. There also this sub-plot with his new father who is amazed by Eli's astonishing new corn and are trying to get rich out of it. After the boring and monotone CotC 2, this was a huge step up in entertainment. It's just more fun and had more enjoyable characters. Worth mentioning that Eli has supernatural powers like Isaac in the first movie. Special effect is good and "the puppet" with barbie doll near the end is priceless. I liked this movie, it's not great at all, but fun, a guilty pleasure. One of the better Children of the Corn movies

gavin6942 Two brothers, formerly of the murderous children's cult of Gatlin, Nebraska, are taken to Chicago by an unwitting couple.Others point out this was the film debut of Charlize Theron, which is pretty cool. Although, being that she has no lines and is not credited, it is unfortunately not much of a start. (Though it does give this film some indirect prestige it probably does not deserve.) I am sorry to pick on a kid, but the actor playing Eli (Daniel Cerny) is terrible. Maybe it is partially because he was given some awful lines to work with, but I just felt like every scene he had, the film went immediately downhill.There are some good things -- Josh playing basketball in his farm clothes, the decent effects on the death scenes (the water pipe, the burning face). I believe Oscar-winning Mark Bridges worked on the costumes (although this is far from his best work).

drewgilbert Children of the Corn 3 could've been the best film in the series until the terrible ending. Eli was the creepiest kid from the cornfields, and he really stole the show. The scene where he kills Father Nolan is one of the most disturbing I've seen involving a killer child. All of the actors were excellent and you could really feel for them. People think the change of scenery ruined things, but I thought it was interesting and refreshing. All of the deaths were dreadful, and the victims were innocent, unlike most characters in horror films. Then, came the last ten minutes or so. I think the creators wanted to pay homage to 50's and 60's horror films, but the attempt was futile. Too bad it couldn't have ended with an intense struggle between Eli and Josh. After all, the followers were once gang members, and they could've attacked Josh more. Josh fighting off T-Loc and stabbing him with his own switchblade would've been great. Eli being stabbed once without his bible in front of him. Maybe even have one of his arm's whacked off. He could just regenerate like the corn and be good as new. I suggest watching this film and shutting it off after Eli is destroyed.