Based on a 1957 book, and made into a very good film in the early 60’s with the great, suave George Sanders in the leading role, it’s now being remade, updated for a modern audience. How original eh?
In this version, the lead character is a woman, who’d have thought it? Her daughter has mental health and substance abuse issues, half of the weird children are effnick. Just what you’d see in a quaint English village, I think there’s still a few of those left.
Keeley Hawes, who plays the new lead, says ‘it’s apt that the part is written for a woman, as it’s a story about women and their bodies, but it’s telling that in 1957 the person at the centre of this female story was a man’
Not really darling, as in the original story, the man’s wife got mysteriously pregnant, so maybe he had a right to be the lead character and to wipe out those creepy little kids at the end. In this version, they’ll probably get therapy and diversity training.
Nominated by: mystic maven




