The first and best adaptation of #JohnWyndham's #TheMidwichCuckoos has an exceptional cast, including the odd coupling of #GeorgeSanders and #BarbaraShelley, and the unnervingly detached #MartinStephens as their son. Director #WolfRilla captures stark scenes of horror as stoic British men are driven to suicide, en route to a bittersweet climactic "triumph." #OnThisDay in 1960, MGM released influential pedophobic chiller #VillageoftheDamned in cinemas across New York and L.A.

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