No, not Dave Vanian (punk Deity though he may be, and definitely worthy of an entry here in his own right at some stage) but 'Village' and 'Children' (Of The Damned) two vintage British sci fi movies from the early 60s which I have just watched for the first time in donkeys and enjoyed as a double bill. There's something bloody marvellous about the way in which us Brits managed to produce our own modestly budgeted, stiff upper lipped, paranoid and genuinely edgy sci fi in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Not to detract from the equally paranoid but far less subtle conterpart American genre of course. The (not actually that unconvincing) cumbersome giant ants of 'Them' in contrast to the blonde bowl cutted poker faced children of Midwich with their staring eyes and Queens English. There is no contrast! They were both the baddies in very different but equally entertaining movies and of both (of course) the product of some vile Commie / Alien conspiracy. Maybe you last watched 'Village' and 'Children' as a youngster (as I did - about 35 years ago) or have not seen them at all, but either way, they are well deserving of a watch, and whilst quite understandably dated, they make for a far more sinister watch than the majority of the modern day effects fests and torture porn lamely masquerading as horror.
Coming up in my next entry........ who the hell knows?
See you soon
How timely that I should read this now, having JUST mixed the song 'Watch The Skies' from my new EP - because it's a song that I recorded all the music to here in Watford, but recorded the vocals a couple of weeks ago in my car at the side of the road in Letchmore Heath a.k.a. Midwich!!! Very little has changed since they filmed it there - in fact I'll email you a photo of it!! Synchronicity...
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