Children of the Corn III
| Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest | |
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| Directed by | James D. R. Hickox |
| Produced by | Gary Depew Brad Southwick |
| Written by | Dode B. Levenson |
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Daniel Cerny Ron Melendez Michael Ensign Jon Clair |
| Music by | Daniel Licht |
| Cinematography | Gerry Lively |
| Edited by | Chris Peppe |
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest is a 1995 American horror film directed by James D. R. Hickox and starring Daniel Cerny, Jim Metzler, Nancy Grahn, and Mari Morrow. It is the third film of the Children of the Corn series and its plot focuses on two mysterious brothers who, after living in rural Nebraska for their entire lives are adopted and brought into Chicago; a chain of deadly occurrences surrounding the family follows and revelations of a cult that the younger brother may have been involved in.
It is also the film debut of Nicholas Brendon, Ivana Milicevic and Charlize Theron.
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest was the first film in the series made under Dimension Films and Miramax studios, who purchased the rights to the series and distributed the six sequels that followed it. It was also the first film in the series to released on direct-to-video.
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 and Eli's fire-and-brimstone prayer at dinner, as well as his 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 Porter's house for an empty factory on the other side of a nearby cornfield. Taking with him the suitcase of corn, Eli prays to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" and plants corn seeds on the grounds of the factory, causing rows of corn to appear almost instantly.
The next day, at their first day in school, 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 the lifestyle being lived by modern children, Eli decides to bring He Who Walks Behind the Rows to Chicago, which soon kills a homeless man who finds the cornfield. Joshua starts spending less time with Eli and makes friends with neighbors Maria and Malcolm.
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