Children of the Corn: Genesis

Genesis is the 8th film in the Children of the Corn series, and probably the worst...

The film starts with a flash back, not from any of the previous films, but just a little back story for the film, had it stayed there it might have been better, but no we had to jump back to present. So then the main story line starts off with a couple stranded on the side of a desert road. Yep... desert. Tim (Tim Rock) and Allie (Kelen Coleman) start walking to find a phone. Soon enough they come across a old run-down home, with the windows boarded over. The occupant of which (Billy Drago), who looks like a Manson-family reject, tells them he has no phone, but Allie calls him on the lie - noticing the phone line going into the house. Okay, really? The line doesn't mean there's a phone, just means there might have been one at some time, right.

The man finally allows them in, but only after learning that Allie is pregnant. The rest of the film takes place in and around the house, with strange actions, sounds, mental images, and a child locked away in a shed out back, makes up the majority of the film shocks. Yes there are a couple cool happenings toward the end, but so far off the norm for a Children of the Corn film. There is no hoard of children slicing the throats of everyone over the age of 18. There isn't even a corn field after the opening flash back, yet the crazy old man is making one of those corn husk dolls we are all so familiar with.

They tried to take the series in a new direction, and quite simply, it didn't work. All I have to say to Joel Soisson (writer/director) is... If it's not broke, don't fix it!

I can only give Children of the Corn: Genesis a 1 star rating from me, and that is for Billy Drago doing such a good job with so little to work with.