CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE

The plot involves the dark goings-on in Hemingford, Nebraska, a town near Gatlin, the original film's setting. Two days after the events of the first film, the people of Hemingford decide to adopt the surviving children from Gatlin and help them start new lives. The well-meaning locals are unaware that the children return to the cornfield where one of the cult members, Micah, is possessed by He Who Walks Behind the Rows, the demonic entity the cult worships.

Caught in the middle are city reporter John Garrett and his son Danny, who are having a huge fight over John's failed relationship with Danny's mother. John is in town working on a story about children to save his fading career. He encounters two of his former colleagues, Bobby Knite and fellow reporter Wayde McKenzie, who are leaving town. They later die in a nearby cornfield after taking a shortcut in their van; a mysterious and powerful storm that lasts only a few minutes causes the surprisingly sharp corn stalks to wreak havoc. Back in town, John meets a bed and breakfast owner, Angela Casual, and they soon become lovers. Trying to distance himself from his father, Danny befriends Lacey, a beautiful local orphan girl, who tells him some disturbing details about Gatlin.

Micah and the other children murder local woman Ruby Burke by sabotaging the hydraulic jacks supporting her house while she is underneath it, causing it to descend and crush her. Micah then kills another townsperson, David Simpson, during church services with a knife and a wooden voodoo doll, which causes him to bleed to death from his head and face. John starts to question the town doctor about what is going on, but the doctor acts suspiciously and asks John to leave. Afterwards, the doctor calls the sheriff and reports that John is investigating. The doctor is later stabbed to death in his office by the children. Micah and the children later kill Mrs. Burke's sister, Mrs. West, in the road and make it look like she was struck by a car.

John partners with Frank Red Bear, a Native American professor at the state university, trying to make sense of the recent chaos and death. Frank leads John to ancient Native American rock paintings, telling him that Native Americans believed the area around Gatlin and Hemingford to hold special power which can magnify good or bad, and that children are especially vulnerable: Frank recites a story which tells of children killing their elders, but also how in the end with a funeral pyre a good spirit will emerge, further stipulating that the rock paintings show this has not yet come to pass.

As they investigate the local corn storage, they discover that town residents have been selling spoiled corn from the previous year's harvest along with the new crop to maximize profits. Growing on the spoiled corn is a dark-green acidic toxin which they believe is filling the town's air and contributing to a state of delusions in the children, rendering them emotionless and violent. The Sheriff discovers them spying on the site, ties them up, and leaves them to be killed by a corn harvester, but they escape. Along the way, John questions Frank further about what's going on, with Frank telling how Native Americans believed in a spirit who would seek revenge for perceived wrongs done to the land, with He Who Walks Behind the Rows being this spirit.

The Sheriff and the rest of the Hemingford adults attend an emergency town-hall meeting to discuss the situation, but the children lock them inside and set the building afire, killing them all. The children then kidnap Angela and Lacey and take them out to the cornfield where they pressure a confused Danny to join them in sacrificing Lacey. John and Frank arrive driving the harvester. One of the children shoots Frank with an arrow, wounding him. Danny and John free Lacey and Angela and attempt to escape but the cornfield seems endless and they shortly return to where they started. Micah attempts to harness the power of He Who Walks Behind the Rows until Frank restarts the harvester, before he dies. Micah's robe gets caught in the machine. At that moment, Micah is freed from his possession and calls for help. Danny runs in to help him but is too late. The harvester pulls Micah in, killing him. The rest of the children scatter, and John, Danny, Angela, and Lacey leave the clearing.

John and Danny later reconcile as they burn Frank's body on traditional Native American funeral pyre, before they, Angela, and Lacey drive off together. Some time later, Frank is seen doing additions to the rock paintings to show that the story has come to pass, with his spirit having become the protector of the area.