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I absolutely adore sci-fi movies like this. I feel too many films try to explain "Oh this happened because of X" but leaving things a mystery (Why did they all faint? Who are these kids?) really builds the atmosphere and world of what will simply be a short film.
These types of mysteries are enjoyable because it allows viewers to develop their own head cannon
So that's what inspired the villains the Delightful Children from Down the Lane (from the cartoon Kids Next Door). It is so obvious now.
I remember really liking the novel the film adapted, The Midwich Cuckoos.
Yes, by the great John Wyndham!
I love when Rob is on the show. Yay, Rob!
Really great episode with a movie that I want to watch now.
I know I’m a gigantic nerd, but this movie also reminds me of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who. Which makes me love it even more.
The movie was based on a novel by John Wyndham, a superb and unjustly neglected English science fiction author from the 1950's. The original book was called "The Midwich Cuckoos," based on how cuckoos sometimes leave their eggs in other birds' nests to be raised as their own. His most famous novel was "The Day of the Triffids," which was made into a not-so-great film. During his peak, Wyndham was enormously popular and deservedly so. He's a great author and many of his titles including "The Midwich Cuckoos" are still in print almost 70 years after they were written.
Day of the Triffids has been made into several not so great films/tv adaptations, mainly because they significantly depart from the book. This film, from this summary at least, seems to stick much closer to the original.
Great show! Always love the Rob episodes.
Matthew and Robert. My two great guys. 🥰
Thank you so much for all the hard work!
If you haven't read "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham, give it a try. It's very good!
Appreciate all the hard work that you put in for this show.
I have to commend Matt's choice of vinyl album in the background. Damned, Damned, Damned is an absolutely fantastic album.
Have you ever seen the 1967 British horror film called Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth)? It's a wonderful cosmic horror movie made by Hammer Films, I love the slow unraveling of everyone's earlier theories as to what is going on and the unsettling reveal of the truth at the heart of the story. I think whoever watches this film will enjoy it and love to talk and share it with others.
The guy with the 2 tufts was the train passenger in "A Hard Day's Night."
Also the man from the Bank of England in "Goldfinger," as I recall.
I think he played a banker in Yes Minister as well.
@@picton101 Yes! Sir Desmond Glazebrook! "Well, what do you know?" "Nothing. Nothing. I'm a banker."
Fun fact: Kim Clarke Champniss, a UK raised kid, and later Much Music VJ, is the kid in the movie with the glowing eyes.
I remember him once discussing how he was the first person to have such a special effect applied to them in a movie.
No idea why I remember that 3+ decades later
Seeing a mention of Much Music warms my heart, and also makes it sad.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Seen it: Lords of Dogtown? I remember watching this over and over on my PSP (play station portable) when I was a kid.
Awesome mention of Targets! That's a favorite of mine
Rob's a great host.
I'm a simple man. I hear a Deadwood reference, I click the like button.
You guys are the best.
I had the same terrifying experience with DEATH WISH 😆
Props to Rob for wearing a Return of the Living Dead tie-in T-shirt. I love Village (the original). This episode posed to me an interesting question -- could someone like Roger Corman have brought discipline to the work of Ed Wood? Thanks!
The revenge killing, I believe, was the first killing as well.
Ed Wood's life is a tragic example of how alcoholism can destroy your life. I suspect if he hadn't been an alcoholic, he would have become... probably not a great director, but one of those guys who directed dozens of episodes of MANNIX or something.
This episode made me REALLY want to watch Village of the Damned!
Being from Central PA my family had a copy of Witness on VHS. The opening scene in the bathroom is the first movie scene that terrified me. I was about the same age as Samuel when I saw it
Seen it: Session 9? The filming location, the shut down Danvers State Hospital, was converted into Condominiums and I had to deliver newspapers there at around 4am as a side job for some extra money. The building still gave me the creeps.
I do say this film and its sequel Children of the Damned are both awesome and well made.
You guys are funny. I saw this one two years ago!
You guy's are funny. Kepp it up.
Matt it will come back.
Seen it!? Strange Darling
That's a Neat, Neat, Neat record by the Damned. ;)
Did this movie inspire the Delightful Children From Down the Lane?
Ah. An Orson Welles, Godfather of Hip Hop appearance. Brick Wall!
"Think of a brick wall..."
Sadie really had something to say about Targets it seemed, guess it's her favorite movie
Seen it! Gilda starring Rita Hayworth
"Brick wall, brill walk, Rick Roll"
CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED is interesting, to say the least. It’s essentially what might be called a “requel” these days; essentially a remake of VILLAGE, but with a drastically different, perhaps even apologetic, take on the titular children.
Sadie cameo! 😻
Seen it! Talk to me, a genuinely great modern horror film
Seen It: Frogs (1972). A cheesy yet enjoyable nature-gone-wild movie featuring a young, clean-shaven Sam Elliott and some creative death scenes.
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Oh shit, the cop that was on the bike is Peter Vaughan. I'd recognize that nose anywhere
The first film that truly terrified me (and scene it suggestion) was Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. Those stop motion fans losing their minds over seeing MJ freaked me out to my core
But what about the 2015 version of Plan 9?
Yes, What about the 2015 version? There sure were so great actors in that film especially that guy playing the convenient store clerk.
I seem to recall one of the remakes starred Christopher Reeves.
The OTHER atomic age sci-fi/horror film that John Carpenter remade
always get "Voyage Of The" mixed up with "Village Of The". Which would be a fun remake.
Seen it! The Crow remake
Seen it? All the way.
Well you would know, in your profession.
All the women in the village get pregnant at the same time? More like Village of the DAAAAAAAMN
I more appreciate the sequel, Village of the God-Damned.
It’s been 30+ years of searching for this horror movie that I can’t find. Maybe someone here can help? All I have is one scene. A huge lady spider traps a dude in a web, I think in a tunnel or somewhere dark. And then this large spider lady sucks out his blood and his whole body just warps, skin around bones and goes flat. Anyone? Anyone???
What Ive never understood about Death Wish: why didn't the daughter just bite it off?
it takes a village, am i right?
Hey matt. April 1st 2025 lands on a Friday. Hint hint.
The Simpsons spoofed this film very well.
This movie comes up in lists of alien invasion/abduction films. The poster and pics always looked too cheap and dull, so I gave it a pass. But I very much enjoyed this episode; it changed my impression of the film.
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