400. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993) — Torture Cinema #107 (Halloween Special)
https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-400-children-of-the-corn-ii/SandF_400_Children_of_the_Corn_II.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSCornspiracies, confused plots, and Nebraska, oh my! Shaun Duke, Alex Acks, and David Annandale regret their life choices in this Halloween Special edition of Torture Cinema on Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993). Together, they struggle their way through the film’s meandering and totally confused plot, just what it means to be a teenager in Nebraska, the show’s totally legitimate new sponsors, racist portrayals of indigenous people, corn, corn, corn, and much more! We hope you enjoy the episode!
Guest Post: That Thing You Love Doesn’t Always Love You Back by Spencer Ellsworth
‘Til All Are One, Buy All Our Playsets & Toys! I’m just old enough to have been raised on VHS tapes. Every weekend in the 80s, my sisters and I would go to the little video store in our tiny California town, right next to the feed store, to pick something out of the 1$ rental shelf for the weekend. I always picked Transformers: The Animated Movie. This piece of ’80s insanity is a hyper-violent, bonkers-weird, hour-and-a-half toy commercial. Hasbro wanted to clear the 1984-1985 model toys, especially those that weren’t selling well, from toy store shelves and introduce new characters. So the first half-hour of the movie, ahem, transforms the franchise. Unlike the syndicated cartoon, a consequence-free zone of stun guns, the animated movie follows Megatron as he mows down Autobots with gruesome detail, climaxing in the brutal death of Optimus Prime from a gaping stomach wound. Oh sure, these are robots with scratched chassis and cut fuel lines, but they fall and scream and mutilate like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.
