 
A
young boy named Job (Robby Kiger)
experiences a group of older kids
poisoning and killing adults in his small
town of Gatlin, Nebraska led by an evil
kid cult leader named Isaac Chroner (John
Franklin) with his assistant Malachai
(Courtney Gains).
Three
years have passed and the town is
deserted running with a group of cult
kids.
Job and his friend Sarah (Anne Marie
McElvoy) are bored as Isaac decided the
kids are not allowed to have fun or play
games. One of their friends tries to
leave the town of Gatlin to try and get
help but is killed in the cornfield.
A
young adult couple named Burton (Peter
Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) drive
to Nebraska as it's Burton's Birthday.
While they enter the town they
accidentally hit the boy who was killed
and try to go down to Gatlin which is the
nearest town to report it.
However,
they drive around and the town seems
deserted and they go into a house after
Burton sees someone opening a door to the
house and then closing it. He realises
that the house is dusty, cluttered and
quiet with nothing updated for 3 years.
They spot Sarah as she draws a picture of
Vicky being taken away to the cornfield.
After she draws the picture, Malachai and
his gang kidnaps Vicky to take her to a
crucifix in a cornfield to be sacrificed
while Burton tries to look for help
elsewhere.
Burton discovers that in the deserted
town kids are being sacrificed after the
age of 19 and finds himself trapped there
and the grown ups are considered
outlanders.
Burton
needs to find a way to rescue Vicky from
Isaac's evil grasp with the help of Job
and Sarah.
Burton realises that Isaac had a reason
why he went to the corn field as there's
an evil demonic spirit lurching in the
patch.
Not as bad as some
people make it out to be. Not the best,
but not too bad. (The film isn't for
everyone's taste I should warn you)
It had a cult following and inspired many
sequels later on.
It's very imaginative of thinking about
kids over ruling a small town making
adults extinct there and them having more
power.
Also, it's a terrifying example of a
brainwashing type of religion making out
that thwe evil things these kids do is
what God wants. Now that's frightening.
There are many interesting moments like
the deadly cult ceremony which explains
why they do what they do.
Based on Stephen King's short
novel Night Shift.
The acting is good
as I enjoyed all of the performances in
this film.
Linda Hamilton was on her rise
to fame when she starred in Terminator
the exact same year and does well playing
a caring character towards Anne Marie
McEvoy's character Sarah as she too
does great as an innocent child.
Courtney
Gains is marvellous playing a second
in command to the children's cult making
his character believeably nasty. He is
one of the best young actors without a
doubt.
However, the best performer I found in
the film was Jonathan Franklin
as the cult leader Isaac as he became a
cult favourite to horror film buffs. His
speech is great when he does his teaching
with the cult kids and really says his
words very powerfully. Well done Franklin!!!!
We also have a small supporting role by John
Philbin in his very first acting gig
on screen as his character explains why
the people are sacrificed at a certain
age.
Nothing too gruesome. Alot
of the killings are offscreen. There is a
throat slit of a child and the results
later is very bloody, some stabbings and
lots of blood splashing around but
nothing your stomach can't take.
The directing is
well done by Fritz Kierch.
He coached the kids terrifically
especially with Courtney Gains
leading the cult kids to try and capture Peter
Horton's character crying OUTLANDER!
He makes the scene of the town deserted
very convincing.
The scene where the sacrifice is about to
begin is the best out of all with lots of
energy. I loved the scene where Franklin's
character Isaac is resurrected into a
demon and seeks revenge on Gains'
character.
The scene where it shows the demon under
the ground looks great too with the
lightning and storm effects over the
cornfield.
Fritz certainly shows excellent
shots of all of this.
Jonathan Elias did
a nice job composing the music for this
flick as you can tell he knew what to put
in for a scene and shows great chanting
for the very eerie parts as it almost
sounds similar to the Amityville
Horror.
I also loved the piano playing and eerie
violin playing as well as it's not at all
over the top.
Vicky:
Is he...
Burt: Oh, yeah.
Burt
Robeson: I spy, with my lttle eye,
something that starts with C.
Vicky: Corn.
Vicky:
What are you going to do when you catch
them?
Burt: Ask them for directions,
what else?
Burt:
[about the Bible] What, did you
rewrite the whole thing, or just the
parts that don't suit your needs?
Malachai:
What Hath the lord commandeth?
Malachai:
Make sacrifice unto him! Bring him the
blood of the outlanders!
Issac:
Behold, a dream did come to me in the
night, and the lord did show all this to
me. In the dream the lord did come to me
and he was a shape, it was He Who Walks
Behind the Rows, and I did fall on my
knees in terror, and hide my eyes, lest
the fearfulness of his face strike me
dead! And he told me all that has since
happened. He said; Joseph has taken his
things and fled this happy place because
the worship of me is no longer upon
him... so take you his life and spill his
blood Like water upon the earth! but let
not the flesh pollute the corn, cast him
instead upon the road!
Isaac:
I am the word and the giver of his laws!
Malachai:
And so it was done... Joseph the betrayer
was cast out.
Isaac:
And He who walks behind the rows did say;
I will send outlanders amongst you... a
man and a woman, and these outlanders
will be unbelievers and profaners of the
holy and the man will sorely test you.
for he has great power, even greater than
that of the blue man!
Children:
The Blue man! Yes, The Blue Man!
Isaac:
And just as the Blue Man was offered up
unto him, so shall be the unbelievers!
Children:
Praise God! Praise the Lord! Praise God!
Praise the Lord! Praise God! Praise the
Lord!
All
the children: Praise God, praise the
lord!
Isaac: Behold, a dream did come to
me in the night and the lord did show all
this to me. In the dream the lord did
come to me he was a shape, it was He Who
Walks Behind the Rows, and I did fall on
my knees in terror, and hide my eyes that
the fearfulness of his face strike me
dead, and he told me all that has since
happened, he said Joseph has taken his
things and fled this happy place because
the worship of me is no longer upon him,
so take you his life and spill his blood.
I brought you upon this earth, but let
not the flesh pollute the corn, cast him
instead upon the rows!
Malachai: And so it was done,
Joseph was cast out!
Isaac: And He who walks behind the
rows did say I will send outlanders among
you a man and a woman, and these
unbeliever and profaners of the holy, but
the man will sorely test as he has great
power, even greater than that of the blue
man!
All the children: The Blue man!
Yes, the blue man!
Isaac: And just as he was offered
up on to him, so shall be the
unbelievers!
All the children: Praise God,
praise the lord! Praise God, praise the
lord! Praise God, praise the lord! Praise
God, praise the lord! Praise God, praise
the lord! (chants)
Malachai:
Outlander! Outlander! We have your woman!
Burt:
What's going on here?
Richard 'Amos' Deigan: It is my
birthday.
Burt: You've got a pretty sick way
of celebrating, pal!
Isaac:
Don't just stand there! Seize him! Punish
him! I am the giver of his laws!
Disobedience to me is disobedience to
him! Do it now or your punishment shall
be a thousand times a thousand deaths!
Each more horrible than the last!
Malachai: They are tired of your
talk, Isaac. I've shown them what I can
do.
[to the children]
Malachai: Cut the woman down. Put
Isaac in her place.
[to Isaac]
Malachai: We shall see how the
Lord favours you...
[Isaac
is really angry]
Isaac: Malachai! He wants you too,
Malachai! He wants you too!
Isaac:
Disobedience to me, is disobedience to
Him!
Burt:
Any religion without love and compassion
is false! It's a lie!
Burt:
She's out cold. What are going to do now?
Vicky: Send her a get well card
from Seattle. Let's get the hell out of
here!
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