i have always be a fan of john carpenter brand of cheap but original horror film but this one be the exception to the rule . it should have be good and i like carpenter and i like john wyndhams book . the midwich cuckoo be arguably one of the sci fi writer best novel . it be certainly more think provoke than his better remember day of the triffids . the book be film a village of the damn in the early 1960s and within the limitation of it low budget it be pretty faithful to the original novel . this version however seem to have throw both the novel and the 1960s movie out of the window and opt for a virtual re write which add nothing to the story and instead lose most of the subtlety of the book . the narrative flow of the book and early film be replace by a disjointed mess of unrelated scene . the acting be wooden and the script inconsequential and the direction . do mr carpenter even read the book . what be the point in save david and unless it be for a and thankfully and unmade follow up . virtually every other carpenter film have simple yet memorable music that match the mood of the movie perfectly but not this one . i have just watch the film and yet i couldn not hum a note of the theme and if it have one . oh and i could hum music from the fog and halloween or escape from new york etc and etc but they be memorable movie with memorable music this and by contrast and be well forget .