Search - Village Of The Damned (1960) [Blu-ray] on Blu-ray

Samuel K. (Solvanda)
Reviewed on 11/25/2018...

Based on John Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos". Another Earth invasion via panspermia. As usual, Wyndham utilises post-apocalyptic dystopian social constructs to shed hindsight on the existence we currently inhabit. Albeit, this vision will send a shudder through the bones. Children of the Damned wasn't as good as the original, but not bad.

One thing I appreciate about Wyndham's works is he never wastes space on the page...and what is there is compressed and intelligent, if not written with a pen dipped in cold blood. I can imagine a lot of British kids of the day had to work a bit with the noggin to get this story tucked in.

There's some real whacked out artwork on the Ballantine PB I have at home...here's a link:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/Midwich-Cuckoos-Ballantine-John-Wyndham/book/0345027639/

FYI, there are also 3 miniseries available on Region 2 which are based on his novel "Chocky". Interestingly enough, I found the 2nd and 3rd TV miniseries, which were written by other writers in the 1980s, using Wyndham's characters, to be more engaging that the original story.