One day in the area of the little town of Midwich everyone within a certain space pass out for six hours. Sometime later it turns out that all fertile women in the town have become pregnant, and their pregnancies seem to have started at the time they passed out... Do you think their children will be spooky?

The special effects are a bit cheesy, and the bad things that happen are mostly all too predictable. Carpenter has written the music with Dave Davis (from The Kinks), and I didn't think I'd ever say this but maybe Carpenter should have hired a professional film music composer instead of doing it himself (with Davis). The 80's feeling of the music is a bit cool, but much of the music is just a backround sound that's not driving the movie in any direction.

A few celebrities in leading roles: Kirstie Alley (from Cheers), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Linda Koslowsky (Chrocodile Dundee), and Christopher Reeve (Superman) feature. And John Carpenter makes a director cameo (guy at the pay phone).

Not a very scary movie, and maybe not too good but I kind of liked it. Maybe it's all the 80's feeling, although the film is from 1995. Or maybe it's the semi-religious ending (that I won't give away).
One day in the area of the little town of Midwich everyone within a certain space pass out for six hours. Sometime later it turns out that all fertile women in the town have become pregnant, and their pregnancies seem to have started at the time they passed out... Do you think their children will be spooky? The special effects are a bit cheesy, and the bad things that happen are mostly all too predictable. Carpenter has written the music with Dave Davis (from The Kinks), and I didn't think I'd ever say this but maybe Carpenter should have hired a professional film music composer instead of doing it himself (with Davis). The 80's feeling of the music is a bit cool, but much of the music is just a backround sound that's not driving the movie in any direction. A few celebrities in leading roles: Kirstie Alley (from Cheers), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Linda Koslowsky (Chrocodile Dundee), and Christopher Reeve (Superman) feature. And John Carpenter makes a director cameo (guy at the pay phone). Not a very scary movie, and maybe not too good but I kind of liked it. Maybe it's all the 80's feeling, although the film is from 1995. Or maybe it's the semi-religious ending (that I won't give away).