This low-budget, well-made and chilling film – based on John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos – proves beyond a doubt that good movies need not be costly. There isn’t a wasted motion in this story about an English village terrorised by strange children who use unearthly powers to control the adults around them.
The English village of Midwich is subject to an alien intrusion and for some hours is cut off from the rest of the country. A hemispherical field around the village causes all within it to fall into a deep sleep.