Blackbirds at Bangpleng
1994 Thai film
- 1994 (1994)
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Blackbirds at Bangpleng (Thai: กาเหว่าที่บางเพลง; RTGS: Ka Wao Thi Bang Phleng), Kāh̄eẁā thī̀ bāng phelng - Check Out Some Songs is a 1994 Thai science fiction horror film. Though it is based on a novel by the famous Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj, the story closely mirrors the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, which itself was adapted into the 1960 film, Village of the Damned.[1]
Plot
A village in rural Thailand is celebrating Loy Krathong, when the festivities are disrupted by the descent of a spaceship. Ray beams are fired from the craft and all the village's women find they are suddenly pregnant. Only a few hours later the women give birth. The alien offspring have the power to kill by just staring and they have an insatiable appetite for raw meat.
Further reading
- Close encounters of the generic kind: A case study in Thai sci-fi, essay by Adam Knee, Screening the Past, La Trobe University, November 1, 2000.
References
- ^ Movie review Archived December 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine at You Call Yourself a Scientist, retrieved on 2007-03-02.
External links
- Kawao tee Bangpleng at IMDb
- Blackbirds at Bangpleng at AllMovie
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Works by John Wyndham
- The Secret People
- Foul Play Suspected
- Stowaway to Mars
- The Day of the Triffids
- The Kraken Wakes
- The Chrysalids
- The Midwich Cuckoos
- The Outward Urge
- Trouble with Lichen
- Chocky
- Web
- Plan for Chaos
- The Day of the Triffids
- Village of the Damned (1960)
- Quest for Love
- Village of the Damned (1995)
- The Day of the Triffids (1981)
- Chocky
- The Day of the Triffids (2009)
- The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
- Triffid
- The Chrysalids (radio drama)
- Children of the Damned
- Blackbirds at Bangpleng
- The Night of the Triffids
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