John Wyndham

Village of the Damned (1960)

Village of the Damned (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 12, 2000Telepathic Alien Children
Classic adaptation of the John Wyndham novel about the women in a sleepy English village being impregnated and producing emotionless alien children with vast psychic powers. This translates the paranoia of US alien invasion films with considerable effectiveness
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The Day of the Triffids (1962)

The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Rating: ★½
Feb 1, 2002The Downfall of Civilisation/Alien Plant Invasion
The first film version of John Wyndham's novel about a catastrophe that renders most of the population blind and leaves them prey to lethal plants. This is killed by variable effects and the abandonment of much of the book
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The Day of the Triffids (1981)

The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jul 3, 2007The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok
Excellent and extremely faithful tv adaptation of the John Wyndham book. This tells the story in terms of ordinary people forced to survive in a harsh world overtaken by killer plants and contains some exceptional writing
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Chocky (1984)

Chocky (1984)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 13, 2019Boy and Invisible Alien Companion
Mini-series adaptation of a novel by John Wyndham, best known for The Day of the Triffids, concerning a young boy who develops an invisible alien companion. Imagine a version of Harvey retold by way of E.T.
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Random Quest (2006)

Random Quest (2006)
Rating: ★★
Apr 21, 2016Alternate Timeline/John Wyndham Adaptation
BBC tv play adaptation of a short story by John Wyndham that also furnished the earlier film Quest for Love about a man finding himself in an alternate world. Despite this version being more faithful to Wyndham, the earlier film makes the central relationship work better
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The Day of the Triffids (2009)

The Day of the Triffids (2009)
Rating: ★★
Jun 19, 2010The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok
Disappointing tv mini-series remake of the John Wyndham novel about England overrun by killer plants. This abandons most of the book's sociological portrait for cliche melodramatics
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