In a farm in Gatlin, Nebraska, Joshua and his younger brother Eli take refuge in the nearby cornfield when their abusive father comes looking for them in a drunken rage. As their father approaches with a scythe, Eli decides to stay behind and face him, despite Joshua’s insistence they flee and find a better hiding spot. After rebuking their father for beating Joshua, he uses a pagan Bible to invoke the power of “He Who Walks Behind the Rows” to have the cornstalks murder their father, turning his mutilated body into a makeshift scarecrow. Joshua returns to check on Eli and the two depart, with Eli’s Bible being magically buried in the soil.
Eli and Joshua are being taken into foster care with William and Amanda Porter of Chicago after the death of their father, who was killed by Eli. The two boys do not mix well with a home in modern Chicago; their formal, Amish-like clothes from Gatlin, Eli’s fire-and-brimstone prayer at dinner, and them bringing a suitcase full of corn that Eli stole to Chicago strike their new parents and neighbors as unusual. On his first night in Chicago, after everyone else has gone to sleep, Eli quietly leaves the Porters’, taking his corn-filled suitcase, and heads to an empty factory on the other side of the backyard fence. There he prays to He Who Walks Behind the Rows and plants corn seeds on the factory grounds; rows of corn appear almost instantly.
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The next day the boys start school, and Eli nearly gets into a fight with T-Loc, a student in Joshua’s grade, and harshly criticizes Joshua for playing basketball with some of the other students. Disgusted with their classmates’ modern lifestyle, Eli decides to bring He Who Walks Behind the Rows to Chicago, and a homeless man who finds the cornfield is murdered. Joshua makes becomes attracted to his neighbor Maria and befriends her brother Malcolm, gradually spending less and less time with Eli.
The social worker who brought Eli and Joshua to the Porters’ discovers that Eli was originally adopted from Gatlin, Nebraska (the town from the first film), and that he has not aged since 1964. She tries to warn the Porters, but Eli quickly burns her alive for knowing too much. Amanda notices Eli’s strange mannerisms, and when she tries to cut down his cornfield it attacks her. She attempts to escape, but she trips on a pole and her head is impaled on a broken pipe, killing her instantly. William finds the cornfield Eli has planted and realizes that with its seemingly-perfect natural invulnerability to disease, ability to grow out-of-season and in the worst of soil, it could result in high agricultural demand.
Eli ultimately manages to sway the other students towards his beliefs, turning them against the principal and convincing them to abandon basketball and other typically routine activities. Joshua arrives and confronts Eli, revealing that he and the Bible are linked, allowing one to survive indefinitely as long as the other is intact. Eli charges at Joshua, attempting to reclaim the Bible. But just as he manages to grab it, Joshua stabs Eli with a sickle, piercing the Bible in the process, destroying both of them. Just as all the students break free of the corn’s spell, He Who Walks Behinds the Rows emerges from the soil, taking the form of a giant, grotesque worm-like monster. It begins to kill several students, including T-Loc, and swallowing Maria. Joshua identifies its weakness as the large, root-like section of its lower body, embedded in the ground. Using his sickle, Joshua slices through this part, seemingly killing the monster.
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