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Summary: In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do. (imdb)
The good acting and creepy kids was undermined by a a slightly weak story.If the story was a little more fleshed out with more scenes with the kids I would have rated it higher.
A decent scifi/horror flick that leaves a lot to the imagination. The acting was well done. And when children do a good job in horror movies, they can be very creepy.
The start is particularly good and the escalation as the plot progresses is slick. These kids certainly are creepy with their blank expressions and uniformity, the simple eye effect brilliantly cementing their otherworldly quality. Sanders provides this with much needed sincerity and gravity, but the ending disappoints and feels distinctly short on revelation.
I wasn't expecting much, but I thought this was pretty effective and rather creepy. Mind-reading children with scary eyes! I think it got the mood right - I was never laughing at it, at any rate, even if in retrospect some of it is a bit silly.