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Jun. 25th, 2022 11:26 pmThe 1960 film adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos, The Village of the Damned is great. It's the best thing its director, Wolf Rilla, ever did.
The 1995 film remake is terrible: it tosses out all of the intelligence of the originals. It's by far the worst thing its director, John Carpenter, has ever done. The best I can say about it is that the ending is set up to have a sequel, but it did so badly at the box office that no-one ever tried to do one.
The current TV version manages to be even worse, based on the first episode: it's boring.
So boring that I went, "I'm not going to watch any more of this".
The 1995 film remake is terrible: it tosses out all of the intelligence of the originals. It's by far the worst thing its director, John Carpenter, has ever done. The best I can say about it is that the ending is set up to have a sequel, but it did so badly at the box office that no-one ever tried to do one.
The current TV version manages to be even worse, based on the first episode: it's boring.
So boring that I went, "I'm not going to watch any more of this".