Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
by Anton Leader, Wolf Rilla
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Actor: Alan Badel, Alfred Burke, Barbara Ferris, Ian Hendry, Sheila Allen (III)Director: Anton Leader, Wolf Rilla
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 166 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
Movie Review: Beware the eyes, that paralyze!!!.
Summary: 5 Stars
In the English village of Midwich, everyone has fallen into a deep sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Months later, every woman capable of bearing children has been pregnant and given birth and every child looks similar to each other. Same color hair, same penetrating eyes and same idea , which is to kill everyone that gets in their way. Village Of The Damned was a great classic sci/fi horror film from the 60's, the film was quite haunting and suspenseful and the acting and characters were brilliant. The children themselves were very creepy as their eyes glow when they are angered. Martin Stephens as George Sanders boy is particularly good as he looks and speaks with such class and yet has the conscience of a cold-blooded, calculated killer. Sanders is also very good in his role as a man torn between bridging the field of knowledge with the unknown and protecting mankind from alien harm, I found this to be quite an enjoyable film and I felt the inclusion of the other towns around the world with similar incidents and the reports back on how they dealt with it to be quite ingenious. A great British science fiction film and certainly one of the more thought-provoking ones around.
This double feature also comes with the sequel Children Of The Damned, although not quite as good as the original Children of the Damned is still one of the best sequels ever made and comes very close to equaling to original. The sets are absolutely mind blowing, particularly the church scenes and the entire movie is very well shot with outstanding camera movement. The acting is superb as you would expect from a British horror movie, the story was about a Psychologist Tom Llewellyn and geneticist David Neville who have found the smartest child in the world: Paul Looran a British boy. However they soon realize that 5 other children around the world are of the same intelligence and even the same entity. It Seems that these kids have unstoppable psychic abilities so they can read minds. These children are brought to England but when the various governments become worried about losing control of the children, the children band together and take over an abandoned church. The film is basically a sequel in name only and no true history is given of the children, unlike the previous film. The film has too many unanswered questions and shows the kids as merely intelligent pawns who think first and kill later and the ending was a cop out but I still thought it was entertaining and is definitely worth seeing, overall I definitely recommend this awesome double feature for those who like old classic British horror films with a spooky atmosphere and intelligent storyline.
Summary of Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
What's scarier than scary kids? Village of the Damned is the definitive scary-kid classic, a truly unsettling film drawn from John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos. The brilliant opening sequence depicts the sudden and temporary paralysis of a small English hamlet, which is followed by the town's women becoming mysteriously pregnant. The spawn of this occurrence are a dozen eerie, blond-headed children, who are either gifted, evil, or "the world's new people." A splendid outing, not least in the way it catches parental anxiety about this small new stranger in one's home. (It was remade by John Carpenter in 1995.)Children of the Damned follows up with a story about six more creepy kids, brought from all over the globe to huddle in a old church in London. An excellent opening half-hour gets bogged down in the movie's global-political ambitions (it's very much a cold war offering), but it has its share of shivery moments--the sight of the six youngsters striding down a London street as though they controlled the world is a chiller. But where's the blond hair? The two films are different in tone; Village feels like a fifties sci-fi offering, with an old-school star (George Sanders) and classical style; Children is a film of the sixties, with hipper techniques, urban setting, and young actors Ian Hendry and Alan Badel. But both have those damned kids. --Robert Horton
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