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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest is a 1995 American slasher film, directed by James D. R. Hickox, and starring Daniel Cerny, Jim Metzler, Nancy Grahn, and Mari Morrow. It is the third film in the Children of the Corn series, and focuses on two mysterious brothers who are adopted from rural Nebraska and brought to Chicago; a chain of deadly occurrences surrounding the family follows, involving a cult in which the younger brother is a follower.[1] Children of the Corn III marked the film debuts of Nicholas Brendon, Ivana Miličević, and Charlize Theron. Ed Grady reprises his role as Dr. Richard Appleby from the first sequel via a flashback sequence to Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
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Directed by	James D. R. Hickox
Written by	Dode B. Levenson
Based on	Children of the Corn by Stephen King
Produced by	Gary Depew Brad Southwick
Starring	Daniel Cerny Ron Melendez Michael Ensign Jon Clair
Cinematography	Gerry Lively
Edited by	Chris Peppe
Music by	Daniel Licht
Production company	Park Avenue Productions
Distributed by	Dimension Films Miramax Films
Release date	September 12, 1995 (1995-09-12)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The film was followed by an unrelated sequel, titled Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996).

Plot

Eli and Joshua are being taken into foster care with William and Amanda Porter of Chicago after the death of their father, who was killed by Eli. The two boys do not mix well with a home in modern Chicago; their formal, Amish-like clothes from Gatlin, Eli's fire-and-brimstone prayer at dinner, and them bringing a suitcase full of corn to Chicago strike their new parents and neighbors as unusual. On his first night in Chicago, after everyone else has gone to sleep, Eli quietly leaves the Porters', taking his corn-filled suitcase, and heads to an empty factory on the other side of a nearby cornfield. There he prays to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" and plants corn seeds on the factory grounds; rows of corn appear almost instantly.

The next day the boys start school, and Eli nearly gets into a fight with T-Loc, a student in Joshua's grade, and harshly criticizes Joshua for playing basketball with some of the other students. Disgusted with their classmates' modern lifestyle, Eli decides to bring He Who Walks Behind the Rows to Chicago, which soon kills a homeless man who finds the cornfield. Joshua makes friends with neighbors Maria and Malcolm and spends less time with Eli.

The social worker who brought Eli and Joshua to the Porters' discovers that Eli was originally adopted from Gatlin, Nebraska (the town from the first film) and that he has not aged since 1964. She tries to warn the Porters, but Eli quickly burns her alive. Amanda notices Eli's strange mannerisms, and when she tries to cut down his cornfield it attacks her. She attempts to escape, but she trips on a pole and her head is impaled on a broken pipe, killing her instantly. William finds the cornfield Eli has planted and realizes that with its seemingly-perfect nature invulnerable to disease, able to grow out-of-season and in the worst of soil, it could be a highly-marketable product. Despite his wife's death, which Eli arranged, William finds backers and looks forward to the massive profits Eli's strain of corn will bring.

Eli neglects to inform his foster father of another property the corn possesses: it turns children who eat it into followers of "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". Eli decisively sways his high-school classmates towards his beliefs, turning them against the principal and directing them to abandon basketball and other previously-typical activities. Alarmed at Eli's converting the students, the principal attempts to inform other staff, but they don't believe him, as Eli's efforts have actually restored order at the school to a degree few had thought possible.

By the time Joshua realizes the full truth, Eli has killed their foster parents, the school principal, and Malcolm and Maria's parents, and he now has full control of his fellow students. Joshua confronts him, revealing that he has gone back to Gatlin (which resulted in Malcolm's death) and found the Bible of "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" which Eli holds sacred and, together with his own body, can survive indefinitely if one is intact. Eli roars "Give me the book!" and charges. Joshua throws it down, and as Eli scrambles to pick it up Joshua stabs Eli and the book with a sickle, destroying both.

After Eli dies, "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" rises from the cornfield: a grotesque monster with several tentacles. It kills several of Eli's followers who have slipped from his control in horrific ways, including T-Loc. After a brief struggle, Joshua repeatedly stabs the sickle at the monster's lower body, which resembles a large tree root sticking out of the ground. "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" collapses and dies.

As the film closes, the first shipment of Eli's corn arrives in Germany, the beginning of shipments all over the world.

Cast

Production

Filming began in December 1993[2] in Los Angeles, California,[3] and ended on January 14, 1994.^{[citation needed]}

Release

Home media

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest was the first film in the series made under Dimension Films and Miramax Films, who purchased the rights to the series and distributed the seven sequels to the original two films. It was also the first film in the series to be released direct-to-video, arriving at U.S. video stores on September 12, 1995 on VHS and DVD.

The film debuted on Blu-ray for the first time on May 10, 2011 via Echo Bridge Entertainment.[4]

Reception

J.R. Taylor of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B-rating: "This latest installment — the best of the Stephen King-derived series — offers some unexpected plot developments and surprisingly chilling gore. But fear not, it's unlikely Urban Harvest will cause nightmares, due to its hilariously inept climax. When the humongous corn creature shakes a screaming girl in its goo paws, the victim looks suspiciously like a Barbie doll".[5] TV Guide awarded the film two out of five stars, praising the performances, and adding: "Against the odds, this horror series (initially based on a Stephen King short story) has actually improved over time to the point where this third installment is a creditable if far-fetched chiller".[6]

See also

• Children of the Corn (film series)
• List of adaptations of works by Stephen King

References

External links

• Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest at IMDb
• Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Kinder des Zorns III

Kinder des Zorns III (Videotitel: Kinder des Zorns III - Das Chicago-Massaker) ist ein US-amerikanischer Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 1995 und die zweite Fortsetzung des Horrorfilms Kinder des Zorns aus dem Jahr 1984. Regie führte James D.R. Hickox, das Drehbuch schrieb Dode B. Levenson nach Motiven der Kurzgeschichte Kinder des Mais (Children of the Corn) von Stephen King.

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- [en] Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

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