"The Space Children" is a rather obscure sci-fi film--and after seeing it, I can understand why. Now I am not saying it's a terrible film--but it's not a very good one, that's for sure! The film is set near a secret military base working on some rocket. An alien force doesn't want this project to commence and so it approached the children of the workers. The alien 'thingie' looks a lot like the Horta from the original "Star Trek" series--like a big squishy brain that grows. It not only holds a strong sway over the children but it also has the ability to make adults who see it unable to talk or write about what they saw--it even has the ability to kill! What's next? Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it all ends with the kids telling the parents that bombs and the like are bad and they all are about to sing "Kumbaya" when the credits begin to roll! The film is preachy, preachy, preachy. Now a similar sort of thing was done with "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and it worked very well due to excellent writing. Here, however, it just comes off as kind of stupid.
Review of The Space Children
