Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: The 4400
>
> > Robert Seeberger wrote:
> >
> > > <snipped flubbed description of series 4400's>
> >
> >
> > Sounds nice enough that I might watch it if or when we get it here.
> But
> > that might be another year or two. Shame. I hope there insn't a twin
> > peaks feel to it. I really hated that series.
> >
> > Does vaguely remind me of an old B-movie. English town gets cut off
> from
> > the outside for a couple of days. The same happens to a couple more
> town
> > all around the world but that isn't of interest for the rest of the
> > story. The military try to get into the town but fail. After a
> couple of
> > days the town is as if nothing happened except for the fertile women
> who
> > all seem to have been impregnated at the same time. When the kids
> are
> > born they turn out to be uber humans with psychic powers who grow
> > amazingly fast. They only person they trust is the teacher after an
> > incident where some of them got killed by a villager. The climax of
> the
> > story is where the remaining kids are blown up by the teacher who
> brings
> > a bomb into the class room when he realises that once they are fully
> > grown they will be unstoppable because of their powers.
> >
>
> Village Of the Damned
> Based on a John Wyndham story.
> Wyndham also wrote Day Of The Triffids
The Midwich Cuckoos?
I haven't seen the movie in question, but I have read the book. I liked
Day of the Triffids better. (Then again, it's been, what, 15 or 16
years or so since I read either one?)
Julia
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