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CAST: Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Adam Wiley, Greg Vaughan, Eva Mendez, Ahmet Zappa, Angela Jones SCR: Ethan Wiley DIR: Ethan Wiley STUDIO: Dimension Home Video Viewers, lend me your ears. That isn't as corny as it sounds. When a character puts his ear to the ground in this movie, it's permanently. This is a body-count shocker. If you're going to make a body-count shocker, then make each death a gas or a gas-and-a-half. Anyway, that's the let's-entertain-them theory of gore-auteur writer-director Wiley. Got your tally sheet? Here we go: A farmer goes out into torrents of rain with his shotgun to check his stock and immediately gets levitated by a little kid whose eyeballs spit fire. The futureless farmer is struck by bolts of lightning and charred to a crisp. The corpse, after rising off the face of the earth, falls from the sky and scrunches against the ground with an impactful thud. A woman in a cornfield is scythed to death. Bloody, and solemnly presented, as it were a religious ceremony. As Wiley would tell you, that's social relevance. Afterward, the woman's boyfriend is scythed through the stomach and beheaded. So much for the tally sheet. Now let's get to Wiley's wily story. Four boring young people (make that two guys and two chicks) turn up stranded in the Midwest corncob count of Gatlin where He Who Walks Behind the Rows walks and his young disciples make sacrifices to a silo which contains a pit leading to Hell. All this is allegedly inspired by a Stephen King short story that started this cycle of films back in 1984. A few deaths (see above) to keep the plot going, then a local crazy named Luke (David Carradine) and redneck sheriff Fred Williamson get killed in order to keep the plot going some more. Carradine? His head and torso are split open like a cleavered orange. Williamson? He's engulfed by ravaging flames. The murder weapons include knives, chainsaws and farmer's tools with sharp points. Didn't the first four CHILDREN OF THE CORN movies do some of that? Seems like it. One kinda looks like the other. It's difficult to remember the differences. FIELDS OF TERROR ends with one of the chicks throwing some stuff into the pit which ticks off He Who Walks Behind the Rows and causes him/it to explode and blow up the silo. You don't even get to see the demon monster or an evil creature from another dimension. That does not look good for the tally sheet. --reviewed by JOHN STANLEY Evaluation: F (for failing to have as many murders as the previous sequel) You've read the review, now get great savings on the following: 
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