Ian West’s review published on Letterboxd:
These movies are like some kind of late night junk food to me—something I toss on at 9pm while the hazy orange glow of the sun is just starting to set as I get lost in a sun-choked malaise of corn terror.
Part V: Fields of Terror is no exception. It’s solid, and you can tell this movie was crop-dusted with an inescapable Scream influence—shifting our main characters to younger college kids with the snooty Eva Mendes character and dorky Randy character by way of Alexis Arquette and setting them up with more of a slasher vibe—which fares well for this because it isn’t stilted by its modern influences—it still tries whacky shit like having ‘He Who Walks Behind The Rows’ be a corn silo that’s always on fire and gives its disciples the ability to shoot corn electricity or some crazy shit.
The corn cult shifts in a different direction with David Carridine in charge and while this is no part III (Urban Harvest rules!), Its still a solid little time waster with a few good kills, decent gore, bartender Kane hodder sporting a nice mullet/rat tale, and fred williamson mailing it in as a sheriff. There’s worse movies in this franchise and way worse movies out there so if you’re into moody semi boring late 90’s DTV sequels based on a short story it almost doesn’t even resemble anymore that also features Alexis Arquette and Eva Mendes than this might B 4 U.
I remember when this maize trash hit the shelf at my local video store... the day I went to rent it some burly kid in a KoRn shirt and a gotee that had patches missing from it bumped into me as I was walking in and let out an edgy “WATCH IT, DICK” directed at me lmao. I went in and saw the movie had been rented and asked if they had any extras. Clerk said “it was literally just rented before you came in!”
Foiled by nü metal yet again... Life is Peachy.
Anyways, Laugh at me all you want, but a lot of these are decent, and these 90’s dtv sequels are way more imaginative than the direct to streaming fake 80’s tinged/generic neon synth scored purple/blue/red pissfest horror bro movies that pop up every 4 days on pr1me or Shudder. At least these movies tried to do something different.