Blackbirds at Bangpleng

Infobox Film
name = Blackbirds at Bangpleng


caption = A promotional one-sheet image.
director = Niratisai Kanjareuk
producer = Jareuk Kanjareuk Surang Prempree
writer = Wanit Jaroong-Git-Anun Kukrit Pramoj (novel)
narrator =
starring =
music = Jaran Manopet
cinematography = Tanit Poo-sara
editing = Niratisai Kanjareuk
distributor = Kantana
released = flagicon|Thailand 1994
runtime = 132 min.
country = Thailand
language = Thai
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:135682
imdb_id = 0110247

"Blackbirds at Bangpleng" ( _th. กาเหว่าที่บางเพลง, "Kawao tee Bangpleng" or, literally, "Cuckoos at Bangpleng") is a 1994 Thai science fiction horror film. Though it is based on a novel by Kukrit Pramoj, the story closely mirrors "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham, which itself was adapted into the 1960 film, "Village of the Damned". [ [http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/cuckoosatbangpleng.htm Movie review] at You Call Yourself a Scientist, retrieved on 2007-03-02.]

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. That very day, they give birth, their offspring aliens. The children have the power to kill with just their stare, and they have an insatiable appetite for raw meat.

Further reading

* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1100/akfr11c.htm Close encounters of the generic kind: A case study in Thai sci-fi] , essay by Adam Knee, "Screening the Past", Latrobe University, November 1, 2000.

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External links

*imdb title|id=0110247|title=Kawao tee Bangpleng
*amg movie|id=1:135682|title=Blackbirds at Bangpleng