Carpenter was in the middle of a contract with Universal Pictures, and when the time came to work on his next film, the director behind such horror classics as “Halloween” and “They Live” had his ...

Two science-fiction novels published in the middle of the 20th century left a mark on the cultural psyche of Britain and America that still looms large today. In the 1950s, John Wyndham’s The Midwich ...

When I first saw “Village of the Damned,” I was 11 years old, staying up late to watch the Million Dollar Movie on our local ABC affiliate. It wasn’t a particularly scary film, but it did give me a ...

The second big screen adaptation of John Wyndham’s 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos, Village of the Damned flopped with critics and gorehounds alike, picking up a Razzie nod for Worst Remake and raking ...

Those are the ones that follow. They’re not golden eggs in Carpenter’s oeuvre, but they’re not lumps of coal, either. A flawed but underrated action-horror movie, Ghosts of Mars unsurprisingly bombed ...

Gordon Zellaby: But they are children, and children are not born with a sense of moral values, they have to be taught. With their intellect that should be simple. Alan Bernard: Intellect. Intellect?

Mara Chaffee: Yes it's true. Without a mate you are of less importance to us, and your development of emotions is disturbing. We can't leave you behind, David. It's time we resolved this. Mara Chaffee ...

When I first saw “Village of the Damned,” I was 11 years old, staying up late to watch the Million Dollar Movie on our local ABC affiliate. It wasn’t a particularly scary film, but it did give me a ...