This might be the cheapest of the Children of the Corn series, as evidenced by it entering the "and Billy Drago" stage. This keeps everything small as 80% of the film is a young couple trapped on Drago's farm. The movie's big ending is just recycled car crash footage (taken from Bad Boys II) and I'm 99.9% certain the script was written when someone said, "Okay, we have access to this footage." Director Joel Soisson earned his keep at Dimension by directing The Prophecy 4 & 5 and Pulse 2 & 3 before this.
Seeing all seven COTC sequels in such quick succession left me with just one question - why? Not "why am I so dumb?" but "why bother making something so generic?" Unlike a F13 or Elm Street series, there are few attempts to maintain a connected storyline and it highlights how gross the Weinsteins/Dimension were with exploiting the Stephen King property they lucked their way into. Not that I think a COTC series running this long would thrive anywhere else, but at least someone would have given more effort. They should have gone the route of part III and given filmmakers the chance to be more creative with FX and the like. Instead they went the "just show some corn and creepy kids" route and the films are just 80 minute horror flicks designed to induce a rental fee.
Seeing all seven COTC sequels in such quick succession left me with just one question - why? Not "why am I so dumb?" but "why bother making something so generic?" Unlike a F13 or Elm Street series, there are few attempts to maintain a connected storyline and it highlights how gross the Weinsteins/Dimension were with exploiting the Stephen King property they lucked their way into. Not that I think a COTC series running this long would thrive anywhere else, but at least someone would have given more effort. They should have gone the route of part III and given filmmakers the chance to be more creative with FX and the like. Instead they went the "just show some corn and creepy kids" route and the films are just 80 minute horror flicks designed to induce a rental fee.