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'Children Of The Corn: Runaway'
(Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Mary Kathryn Bryant, Lynn Andrews, et al / Blu-ray+Digital / NR / 2018 / LGF)

Overview: 'Children of the Corn: Runaway' follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Blu-ray Verdict: Ruth (Marci Miller) is a member of the killer children but when she discovers she's pregnant she burns the other children and heads off with her unborn child to give it a better life. Thirteen years later Marci and her son are trying to start over in a new town but pretty soon she begins to feel that the children are after her.

You know, I love horror films and I especially love horror series. Sure, the majority of them don't deliver as many good films as bad ones but I still get a thrill whenever a new sequel is announced to a series.

One could really argue that the entire Children Of The Corn series hasn't turned out any good films, but sadly this one here is without question the worst yet. It's really too bad that this film turned out to be so awful, but there's very little here to enjoy.

I'm really not sure what director John Gulager and writer Joel Soisson were trying to do with the picture, but it's one of the most boring films that I've seen in recent years.

The problem with the screenplay is that we're given a lead character that is downright boring and it's someone that the viewer simply doesn't care for. Another major problem with the screenplay is that there are way too many dream sequences and these just get rather tiresome after a while.

And as much as I truly honestly wanted to like it, or at least some part of it, there just wasn't anything here that I could lock onto. Hell, even the short running time seemed triple what it really was! Again, I'm not sure if the director was trying to deliver some sort of psychological movie, but it doesn't work.

In closing the one saving grace to the film was Lynn Andrews III who plays the black boss. Again, I'm not exactly sure what the screenplay was trying to do with his character, but the actor was very good here and I hope to see him in other projects. This is a Widescreen Presentation (AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.35:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Feature of:

Deleted Scene - Found a Rabbit (1080p; 1:52)

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