[HN Gopher] Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham (1962) [video]
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Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham (1962) [video]
Author : johntfella
Score : 17 points
Date : 2023-07-18 08:38 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| Dagnammit - I thought it was going to be a video version, but
| it's just audio.
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| As a John Wyndham fan, I reckon it's about time there was a film
| version of The Kraken Wakes.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| You own a bunch of high-def video cameras already.
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| Go make it.
| johntfella wrote:
| it would be pretty cool to see netflix or amazon pick up the
| various forgotten stories of Wyndham, hell even some HP
| Lovecraft. Lately I've been buying up vintage books and vinyls
| to give to nephew as he enters the age of discovery so to
| speak. what I linked I just thought was too neat not to share.
| hope others enjoy it as much as I did.
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| The Chrysalids would be another choice of mine to be filmed -
| a post-apocalyptic coming of age drama.
|
| I'm a big Lovecraft fan and have tried to watch as many of
| the video versions as possible, but most of the adaptations
| turn out to be fairly rubbish. Color Out of Space was good
| fun though. I think the best Lovecraftian films are not
| directly related and I'd recommend AM1200 as an excellent
| short that gives a really good Lovecraftian feel.
| [deleted]
| olddustytrail wrote:
| I recently watched Chocky on youtube. I kind of forgot that 80s
| children's TV in the UK had no problems being disturbing.
|
| Mind you, we also had Jim'll Fix It so a bit of horror wasn't
| the worst.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| [dead]
| dcminter wrote:
| Couldn't agree more - make the central characters TV reporters
| instead of radio, tweak it a bit, and bob's your uncle a
| parable about global warming.
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| Though I'd love to see it done as a faithful alternate
| history/retro-futurism thing too.
| Flow wrote:
| There's a game based on The Kraken Wakes, released early 2023.
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| https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100380/The_Kraken_Wakes/
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| Shame it doesn't look to have SteamDeck support or hasn't
| been tested for that.
| jodrellblank wrote:
| This is one of my favourite SciFi books; I like Wyndham's style,
| it's rather twee, very 1950s rural England, reminds me of the
| early map of a game of Transport Tycoon game. And not much
| action, more of a slow burn of ideas. Trouble with Lichen is
| about longevity treatments, touches on class warfare and women's
| lib.
|
| Another of his that I really like is The Outward Urge (with Lucas
| Parkes) on the idea of yearning for space travel as a heritable
| thing passed down several generations of a family, over an
| implied world war and shifting of nation powers.
|
| Another good more popular one is The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as
| The Village of the Damned); all the women in the village became
| pregnant overnight, what did it mean and what to do about it?
| (Spoiler below). "Midwich was not the only - or even the first -
| village to have a dayout".
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| One I liked less, Chocky, an alien "invasion" by telepathy which
| turned into a bland rushed lecture on wasting fossil fuels and
| had no interesting conclusion.
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| (spoiler: aliens)
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