Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2012

This is the eighth in a string of TV or DVD movies (and thankfully the first I’ve had to watch) that started in 1984, spawned from a Stephen King short story about a band of murderous, demonically possessed Nebraska kiddies who kill. This time a couple’s car breaks down in a California desert and they have to spend the night with a mad preacher, his Ukrainian bride, and, oh yes, the evil kid chained up in the shed. Snore. Good production values, and Billy Drago is always creepy, but it plays like a TV episode, which I guess is what it is, and goes nowhere. The only corn is in the script.