Oct '23
Some sources say it's from 2020. I've seen all the other ones, so why not? It's a rather crummy DTV series, with only a few notable entries. Then again, which franchise isn't exactly like that?
The 1984 original isn't great, but I like it anyway. It has a good eerie cornfield atmosphere, Linda Hamilton, and a bunch of creepy kids. I hadn't seen it until my late teens, so I had a long period of my life where I could look at that cool red sunset poster artwork and build up the movie in my head and make it out to be better than it really is. Sometimes when you do that, you can actually brainwash yourself into disregarding the movie's actual merit (or lack thereof) in favor for your own delusional concept of how great a movie is. Tricking yourself into regarding a movie as a classic. I think that's what Hollywood did when they decided to make this relatively stand-alone film into a whole franchise of DTV garbage.
In 2009, they remade the movie. It was okay at best, but basically just that. A remake of an 80s movie with no real charm or reason to exist. I think it was a Syfy channel movie, which should put it all into perspective for you. Nobody cared, and I've already forgotten all the beats of that movie.
Then in this very year (or 2020?), they thought they'd try again. It may have the same title, but this is less of a remake and more of a re-imagining. It has the same concept of children killing adults because of something in the corn pushing them to it, but the way it plays out is quite different. It's almost more of a story about psychologically fucked up kids, at least until the halfway point where you see there actually is a creature who walks behind the rows. Yeah, they show him, and it's not the worst effort in CGI. The movie looks well-made and it's more sadistic than other entries, that's for sure. Worth at least one watch, but the very end scare perpetuates some dumb genre tropes. Definitely one of the better entries in an otherwise crappy series.
The 1984 original isn't great, but I like it anyway. It has a good eerie cornfield atmosphere, Linda Hamilton, and a bunch of creepy kids. I hadn't seen it until my late teens, so I had a long period of my life where I could look at that cool red sunset poster artwork and build up the movie in my head and make it out to be better than it really is. Sometimes when you do that, you can actually brainwash yourself into disregarding the movie's actual merit (or lack thereof) in favor for your own delusional concept of how great a movie is. Tricking yourself into regarding a movie as a classic. I think that's what Hollywood did when they decided to make this relatively stand-alone film into a whole franchise of DTV garbage.
In 2009, they remade the movie. It was okay at best, but basically just that. A remake of an 80s movie with no real charm or reason to exist. I think it was a Syfy channel movie, which should put it all into perspective for you. Nobody cared, and I've already forgotten all the beats of that movie.
Then in this very year (or 2020?), they thought they'd try again. It may have the same title, but this is less of a remake and more of a re-imagining. It has the same concept of children killing adults because of something in the corn pushing them to it, but the way it plays out is quite different. It's almost more of a story about psychologically fucked up kids, at least until the halfway point where you see there actually is a creature who walks behind the rows. Yeah, they show him, and it's not the worst effort in CGI. The movie looks well-made and it's more sadistic than other entries, that's for sure. Worth at least one watch, but the very end scare perpetuates some dumb genre tropes. Definitely one of the better entries in an otherwise crappy series.