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Blackbirds at Bangpleng
A promotional one-sheet image.
Directed byNiratisai Kanjareuk
Written byWanit Jaroong-Git-Anun
Kukrit Pramoj (novel)
Produced byJareuk Kanjareuk
Surang Prempree
CinematographyTanit Poo-sara
Edited byNiratisai Kanjareuk
Music byJaran Manopet
Distributed byKantana
Release date
1994
Running time
132 minutes
CountryThailand
LanguageThai

Blackbirds at Bangpleng (Thai: กาเหว่าที่บางเพลง; RTGS: Ka Wao Thi Bang Phleng) 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

References

  1. ^ Movie review Archived December 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine at You Call Yourself a Scientist, retrieved on 2007-03-02.

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Works by John Wyndham
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