A young lady named Grace
Rhodes (Naomi Watts) comes to the town of
Grand Isle to visit her mother June
(Karen Black) who is mentally sick and
has been having twisted nightmares. She
hasn't left the house to top it all off.
Then Grace's younger siblings starts to
have major hayfevers as well as the other
local children there and all start acting
really strange at the local hospital.
The children then behave very evil by
killing one of the local sherrif's as
well as the doctor at the hospital. The
kids are possessed by an evil force in
the cornfield there.
Now Grace must save the children from an
evil spirit bent on having its revenge on
the town.
I wasn't impressed
with this one as I don't even think that
this one had anything to do with the past
three flicks and was a story on it's own.
It was very dull not showing a heck of
alot while watching it all the way
through as it mainly showed the hospital
and sometimes the cornfield. The story
just doesn't go anywhere.
The acting is above average.
Karen
Black does well as an unstable woman
who has a fear in her town.
The kids did well at being possessed too
with their lines and dialogue between the
adult cast.
Thumbs up to lead actress Naomi Watts
as she performs her role with a great
deal of character too.
There was
still strong horror violence in this one
just like in the sequel.
A drunken
man is scythed in the crotch, pitchfork
on his wrist, machette in his arm, shovel
in his stomach, and finally decapitated
by a scythe but all of this is quick.
Another is hit over the head, fingers
chopped off with scythe, then slashed to
death.
A sherrif is impaled on a scythe.
Someone is slashed in the forehead with a
sickle, cut in half by a stretcher.
Another victim is dragged by barbwire and
stabbed by a pitchfork.
Someone is stuck to a door by needles in
hands, then a sickle thrown into her
head.
Another one has his skin melted by
quicksilver, then cut with scythe.
The directing is
nothing special but Greg Spence knew
how to make you jump when a supporting
actor as a local sherriff played by Richard
Gross got attacked in the cornfield
as well as making the scenes of the cast
as children having hayfevers seem
realistic.
There's also a neat satanic ritual at the
cornfield as always.
David C. Williams was
the composer this time as he seems ok
with his music but it's not over the top
spectacular by any means.
He also gained his work on
some other low budgeters like Critters
3, Prophecy 2, Phantoms
and Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies.
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