Children of the Corn movie reviews

Children of the Corn

     *Children of the Corn 2: The Holy Grail?


*Originally published on 10/31/09


I was on Netflix adding the sequels, Pet Sematary 2, the two sequels to The Mangler, I even went ahead and added the two Lawnmower Man movies.

A strange thing happened shortly after.  I knew that they had made a whole franchise out of the Children of the Corn story so I just typed that in expecting to find all of the movies.  A lot of them were there: the first one, the remake of the first one, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh ones were there (seven? really?) but Children of the Corn 2 was conspicuously absent.

Determined to get the complete set, I typed in "Children of the Corn 2", nothing, just a list of the same movies.  I added the subtitle, still nothing.  I tried using roman numerals and just the subtitle to no effect. They just flat out didn't have the movie.

So, I went to Amazon, I figured that they would have a copy of the DVD for cheap.  That was not the case.  They only had six used copies and they were selling for like 40 bucks.  Forget that mess, I'm not paying 40 bucks for a DVD of Children of the Corn 2, just no.  Even more ridiculous is the fact that that was the cheapest one.  Some copies were going for close to 70 bucks, "new" editions were going for 100, that's insane!

They did have a wider selection of VHS copies going for around 8 dollars, which is a better deal, I guess.  Though even with the VHS tapes, one guy wanted 20 bucks for it.  OK, the movie has a 4 star rating on Amazon but 20 bucks for a VHS tape and 40 for a DVD, I can get a deluxe blu-ray edition of a movie for that.

I know that some movies are hard to find, but those tend to be extraordinarily obscure.  Heck, some of the movies I added to the queue were more obscure than Children of the Corn 2.  This was part of a fairly large franchise, not to mention that every other sequel is widely available.  Why, out of all of them is this one so rare?  Curiouser and curiouser my dear readers.  This is most peculiar.  I am both baffled and shocked.  It's just weird.





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Children of the Corn (2009)