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Extra Credit 003 - Village of the Damned / The Day of the Triffids (Patreon)

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2022-09-30 14:00:00
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2024-09-20 23:36:32
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2026-06
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We're doing a John Wyndham double feature and you'd better show up if you know what's good for you!

And check out BBC4's John Wyndham - The Invisible Man of Science Fiction 

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Robert Curtin

Oh Chris... 1st rule of responding to an accident or dangerous situation: if you see someone go to help and IMMEDIATELY get dropped by whatever is happening, DO NOT approach. Maybe not the 1st rule, but it's the first in my book. Running in like that is how you get eaten by monsters.

Dave Machin

The 1981 BBC Day of the Triffids was one of my deepest childhood fears after watching it as a kid. The end of episode 1 stuck with me as one of my strongest fears until adulthood. Had to buy the DVD of the series and watch it as an adult to purge that 😊 It’s a fantastic series and was remade as 28 Days Later - totally worth watching.

UltharMeow

Another happy childhood memory! Blockbuster browsing was the best way to kill an hour on a Friday night. My mother and I rented a whole stack of 50s and 60s horror movies that she loved. Definitely a good time. Also check out “Attack of the Mushroom People” which is a 1963 Japanese horror flick based on the excellent short story “A Voice In the Night” by William Hope Hodgson.

Clyde Duensing III

Thanks for covering these films. I loved both of them when I was a teen, and watching every old horror and sci-fi movie that came on TV. I was also a John Wyndham fan, and read a number of his books, including The Kraken Wakes, although in the old edition I have it was titled "Out of the Deeps". This might entice me to watch them again or dust off the old books and give them a read.

Steve

It's definitely Mid-Witch. Did you expect consistency from the country that brought you Middlesbrough and Loughborough?

Jeremy Impson

I always confuse Day of the Triffids with The Tripods.

Louis Hobbs

I highly recommend the audiobook of Day of the Triffids. There are different versions, but the one narrated by Sam West is fantastic. You can listen to it free on YouTube.

Its Mr Bat Man To You

When they’re discussing how this is ripe for a blockbuster remake I had to go back and make sure this wasn’t an episode from 2017, and that I wasn’t in some sci-fi time loop or slightly different dimension! “Bird Box”?!?

David Halstead

Triffids made me think of the game The Last of Us. And thinking of video games, if you had Triffids in a zombie apocalypse you could do a live action Plants vs. Zombies.

Derek Scott

Children of the Corn always struck me as Village of the Damned but without any back story and motiveless, murderous kiddos instead of telepathic toeheads.

superkeaton

Fun fact, there were plans for a Triffid Transformer! It was part of a canceled line for the Beast Wars toyline, alongside a manticore and a jellyfish. There's concept art out there for all three.

Jason Thompson

Pleeeassse do the twilight zone omnipotent kid story

Jason Thompson

Whenever people condemn “bioessentialism” in fantasy and SF (as in the whole principle rather than specific bad tropes), I wonder if they realize they’re also problematizing stories like “The Midwich Cuckoos.”

Scott Turley

Or Matheson’s “Born of Man and Woman”.

Lord Rancid

Now you've dusted off John Wyndham, maybe do some Nigel Kneale next? Apart from the obvious Lovecraft adjacent Quatermass and the Pit and all the other Quatermass series (and I really suggest those over any of the movies) there's some really weird stuff like The Stone Tape and The Year of the Sex Olympics....

Andy O'Dowd

Anthea Zellaby is played by Barbara Shelly, a regular Hammer actor starring in such movies as Dracula, The Gorgon and Quatermass and the Pit.

Joshua Weiss

I haven’t seen either film, but I have read both of the books. I read Day of the Triffids a few years ago, and remember it as an interesting post-apocalyptic story, in which the human antagonists generally more of a threat than the Triffids. I was in the middle of reading The Midwich Cuckoos about the time this episode dropped. I thought the story would have made an effective body horror story, but was rendered ineffective by making all of the viewpoint characters men. For example, when all the women and girls in town realized that they were pregnant, a number of the victims reacted with horror. Some attempted to induce miscarriage by eating or drinking something odd, and in a couple of cases by throwing themselves down a flight of stairs. There was at least one case of domestic violence by an enraged husband, and one attempted suicide. We learn about these incidents after the fact, and the primary effect is presented as causing the local doctor a lot of stress. In addition, the vicar’s wife decides that all of these unexplained pregnancies must be a punishment from God, and she starts preaching fire and brimstone on the streets. Of course, we hear about this from the vicar, who is embarrassed by all the fuss. The vicar’s wife ends up being committed. In the end, the decision is made (by a group of influential men) to carry the implanted babies to term and see what happens. This feels like it should be devastating to the unwilling mothers, but of course we never really find out how they feel, making the whole read like “What’s up those freaky space babies?” This could have been such a great story, but in the end it felt like a really long Weekly World News story.