Spooky sci-fi should be a damned good watch
KEELEY HAWES and Max Beesley star in this unsettling new psychological thriller, based on the same story that inspired the film Village of The Damned.
The quiet village of Midwich seems like a lovely place to live and raise your children – it’s idyllic, safe and calm, and young couples can’t believe their luck when they manage to get a house there.
Life is great until one fateful evening when an eerie force takes over. Bizarrely, all of the residents collapse midway through what they are doing, and Midwich is plunged into a communications blackout.
No one can reach the villagers, including local copper DCI
Paul Haynes (Beesley), whose pregnant wife is caught up in the chaos.
Dr Susannah Zellaby (Hawes) is also panicking – her vulnerable daughter was spending the evening at home alone, while she went into the city for a disappointing date.
As the police set up cordons and try to stop anyone entering the village, everyone is completely baffled by what has happened, and they wonder if those
Keeley Hawes as Dr Susannah Zellaby affected are dead or alive. Amazingly, the next day, life appears to return to normal – the dazed villagers regain consciousness and are reunited with their loved ones. But they soon realise that all of the young women are now pregnant – and the babies aren’t human.
These parasitic alien children (the cuckoos) don’t look so different from us, but there’s something sinister about them.
Can Haynes and Zallaby work out what they want and why they came to Midwich?
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
Sky Max, 9pm