I picked this up at my local Pound Store recently, and thought what the hell? Freaky corn children in the big smoke was sure to have some interesting results!And it did.Surprisingly, COTC3 was quite a well made, FX filled, darkly comic flick that had 2 great looking leads, Daniel Cerny and Ron Melendez, who pulled off the freaky and the funny quite well.Daniel Cerny, as the main devil child, was just fantastic! Probably one of the best evil child roles I've seen.For fans of classic 80's horror, you should check this out. There is still plenty of gore fun in the corn, and then some!Worth the watch!

Two brothers, formerly of the murderous children's cult of Gatlin, Nebraska, are taken to Chicago by an unwitting couple.Others point out this was the film debut of Charlize Theron, which is pretty cool. Although, being that she has no lines and is not credited, it is unfortunately not much of a start. (Though it does give this film some indirect prestige it probably does not deserve.) I am sorry to pick on a kid, but the actor playing Eli (Daniel Cerny) is terrible. Maybe it is partially because he was given some awful lines to work with, but I just felt like every scene he had, the film went immediately downhill.There are some good things -- Josh playing basketball in his farm clothes, the decent effects on the death scenes (the water pipe, the burning face). I believe Oscar-winning Mark Bridges worked on the costumes (although this is far from his best work).

Okay I really liked the 1st two installments of this series. But eventually you knew they would have to start making horrible sequels.The film takes place in Chicago and two children from Gatlin, Nebraska were adopted to a family that lived in the Windy city. One named Joshua who was a dashing young man and the other was Eli a sort of Damien-esque child. Well Eli plants "Supernatural Corn". Long story short he practically hypnotizes all the children at his school and people die in graphic ways.I had a lot of flaws with this flick of course. 1st was making it into the urban setting. 2nd was the characters. 3rd was Joshua and the black guy driving all the way back to Nebraska to get the bible of the corn. Then last but not least was the finale, it should've ended a lot of earlier. But instead they had to get a few more deaths in before the credits started to roll. And the sister of that one guy who was the love interest of Joshua was a doll at one moment. I understand low budget and all but seriously this was the 1990s.Overall its not the worst Children of the Corn film but it isn't the best.

Children of the Corn III ** (out of 4) Josh (Ron Melendez) and his younger brother Eli (Daniel Cerny) move to Chicago from Nebraska after their father mysteriously disappears. As it turns out, Eli is in a cult with the corn and other forces and soon he's taking the kids of Chicago in plans to turn them against the world. This third film in the series was the first to go straight to video but it looks like it might have originally been meant for theaters. The production values are pretty good and nothing about it looks like something that would go straight to video. The movie is certainly better than the first one but I'm not sure how many people, outside of die-hard horror nuts like myself would actually want to watch it. I think the best thing they did was move the action to Chicago and put the cornfield in an abandoned building. Having the Amish kid stalk the streets and tough guys of Chicago made for a lot of fun as two cultures mixed and often did battle. The screenplay has a rather nice story even if what the heck Eli's trying to do never really makes too much sense. Some of the special effects are pretty bad but some are good like a few scenes where some adults throw up some insects. Performances are decent for this type of movie, which is all we can ask for. Apparently this was Charlize Theron's first movie but I wasn't able to spot her.