By Jody. Score: 3/10Five adults sneak into a corn maze after hours only to be picked off one-by-one. Basically, it's a run-of-the-mill slasher flick...
...and one of the most laziest and uninspired ones I've ever seen, which yet again is a major disappointment for me.Proper corn mazes (at night especially) are scary, and a breezy 80-minute slasher (this one drags on at 90 minutes) with a killer in a good costume or mask (who could pop out anytime/anywhere) would have been just what the doctor ordered this late in the season.
Instead, the killer is a petite man with a switchblade dressed in a red hoodie .The corn maze part of the narrative lasts only half the movie, at which time the narrative switches to the killer's perspective, though the narrative never gives us the courtesy of any kind of character development or exposition into the killer's motives.
The deaths are a joke. The blatantly obvious fake plastic knife is often visibly bent. The filmmakers use CGI fire (ok to be fair, you probably can't use real fire in a cornfield, but at least do a better job). Lastly, there were little-to-no sound effects, so it seems they didn't even hire a Foley. I am surprised the film quality looked as good as it did - about the only thing done competently in this film.
Starring: a bunch of shorts actors and production assistants of shorts
Directed by: Stephen Shimek
Budget / Gross: $200K / Direct-to-DVD
IMDB Score: 3.8/10
Tomatometer: N/A critics and 15% audiences liked it
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