Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

David Price

Writers:

Stephen King (short story "Children of the Corn")
A L Katz (written by) ...

Release Date:

29 January 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

These children are home alone ,too. But their parents won't be coming back.

Plot:

Belated sequel to the '84 film. 8 years after the first, authorities discover the mutilated bodies of adults in the secluded town of Gatlin...

Plot Keywords:

Children | Corn | Sequel | Church | Cult

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Terence Knox	...	John Garrett
Paul Scherrer	...	Danny Garrett
Ryan Bollman	...	Micah
Christie Clark	...	Lacey Hellerstat
Rosalind Allen	...	Angela Casual
Ned Romero	...	Frank Redbear
Ed Grady	...	Dr. Richard Appleby
John Bennes	...	Rev. Hollings
Wallace Merck	...	Sheriff Blaine
Joe Inscoe	...	David Simpson
Kellie Bennett	...	Mary Simpson (as Kelly Bennett)
Robert C. Treveiler	...	Wayde McKenzie (as Rob Treveiler)
Leon Pridgen	...	Bobby Knite
Marty Terry	...	Mrs. Burke / Mrs. West
Ted Travelstead	...	Mordechai

Also Known As:

Children of the Corn II (USA) (working title)
Children of the Corn: Deadly Harvest (USA) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and gore, and for language.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (FotoKem)

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (2000) | Australia:M | Germany:18 | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #31607) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1993) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Liberty, North Carolina, USA

Company:

Corn Cobb Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: When the old woman in the wheelchair is hit by the truck she flies through the window of the bingo parlor, even though it's perpendicular to the angle of the impact.

Quotes:

[first lines]
David Simpson: God... the smell!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)

Final my arse

Second in the monotonous horror series takes place soon after the events of the first movie, with reporter Terence Knox poking around as he tries to discover what happened in the empty town. Strangely, although every adult and a bunch of kids were killed, no cops stick around after the first five minutes, leaving Knox free to discover bodies all over the place. Anyway, without a series of gruesome deaths there would be no movie, so people are killed by a bunch of spooky kids and, erm, a cornfield. It's pretty much the same mixture as before, but we also get boring troubles between father and son, perfunctory romances, and corn-this and corn-that. It's repetitious beyond belief, seems about twice as long as it really is, and as the plot of this film revolves around Knox piecing together the events of the original movie, it's also completely redundant.