Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
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Movie Reviews of Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
Movie Review: Dumb City
Summary: 2 Stars
Village of the Damned isn't so bad. George Sanders is always worth seeing. But the film is an obvious cheapy (made for under $300,000), and you have to be about eight to get excited about the strange eyes of the strange children who come, apparently, from another planet. In the end, the hero blows up the monsters (and himself); the classic cheapie horror show ending.
Children of the Damned is much worse. Again, an obvious cheapie, this sequel can't figure out what the strange children are supposed to be doing on the planet. The couple of sentences uttered by the head freakie kid make no sense at all. So, in the end, the children with the strange eyes are all destroyed. Again. What a waste of film.
Movie Review: The Simpsons give credibility....
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this unsettling little chiller when I was about the age the children are at the end of THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. It unnerves me as much now as it did then. A truly frightening idea brilliantly executed here with wonderful work by George Sanders & Martin Stephens(similarly creepy in THE INNOCENTS). For fans of THE SIMPSONS out there, you will remember this film being brilliantly parodied in the episode involving all the children being put under curfew. Movie Review: It Takes A Village...
Summary: 5 Stars
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED- The village of Midwich has been invaded by extra-terrestrials! There are no spaceships. No rayguns. Not even one killer robot. Nope, something far more insidious and bizarre has happened. One day, the entire town population is put to sleep by some unknown means, and all the women who can bear children are impregnated. They wake up with lil' alien buns in their ovens (and not all their hubbys were thrilled either)! The oddly aryan offspring grow into 12 psychic / telekinetic terror-tots, bent on total control of the townfolk. George Sanders is the one resident who thinks he can relate to the kids intellectually. The children cause the untimely deaths of anyone who opposes them or even ticks them off. Can George Sanders overcome his own cerebral snobbery long enough to defeat these tyrannical superbrats? The climax is explosive! CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED- Kids with supra-genius intelligence are popping up like toadstools all over the world. They soon get together, using an abandoned cathedral as a fortress. The millitary is powerless against their psychic abilities! These kids mean business! A tad less dark than VOTD, COTD offers political intrigue, a resurrection, and a cool secret weapon made from a pipe organ! Together, these movies make a fantastic double feature. Highly recommended... Movie Review: Terrifying 60s Horror Classic & Sequel at last on DVD!
Summary: 4 Stars
"Village of the Damned" is the 60s sci-fi classic steeped in paranoia and set in England's Midwich. It seems that this picturesque district was visited by aliens who secretly impregnated the town's human women. Suddenly, blonde haired clone like boys and girls begin to pop up all over the countryside. These glowing-eyed humanoids have but one purpose - to use their intellectual superiority as mind-control over the adults in order to conquer the world. Top billed are George Sanders and Barbara Shelley as Gordon and Anthea Zellaby. Gordon is first to recognize that the town's children are not what they seem. But will he be in time and of enough strong will to stop this slow plague of brainwashing? The chilling screenplay by Stirling Siliphant (based on the novel, "The Midwich Cuckoos") and nimble direction by Wolf Rilla builds to a climax of unsettling terror that even today holds audiences spellbound. This classic film comes as a double feature with its sequel "Children of the Damned." Moving the location from countryside to a London school for the gifted, a professor (Alan Badel) assembles high I.Q. moppets from around the world for an intellectual experiment that goes horribly awry. The sequel has its merits but it lacks in the visceral and unsettling terror associated with the original. In 1995 "Village of the Damned" was remade by scare-master, John Carpenter with Kristie Alley and Christopher Reeve - but with decidedly predictable and less than stellar rewards.
Warner's DVD is outstanding. The image is remarkably clean, with a very solid and beautifully rendered gray scale, deep blacks and excellent contrast levels. Fine details are fully realized. There is a total lack of edge effects and other digital anomalies for an exceptionally smooth visual presentation. The audio is mono but with a considerable punch to it. For "Village of the Damned" there is a thoughtful and thorough audio commentary by author, Steve Haberman. On "Children of the Damned" we get a fairly thorough reading by the sequel's screenwriter, John Briley.
Movie Review: invasion of the aryan children from outer-space
Summary: 4 Stars
Truly this a classic of both science-fiction as well as horror.Of course the horror is not the traditional bloodletting but rather psychological.It reads like a hitler youths takeover of a
typical english village "while everybody is asleep".these fatherless children all sport blond hair & blue eyes and definite
ideas about how things should run in the now quaranteed village.
They also seem to exhibit no distinct personnalities but more of a "group mind"(hence the fachism analogy)that has no problem crushing all dissidents , even their own parents.
On the technical side I have to again commend Warner for including it's sequel (children of the damned)on the disc , making it a great value.While the sequel suffers in comparison
to the original it's still worth seeing.
We as customers should support Warner & it's "double bill" DVD's
so that other companies might jump on the bandwaggon (so far only
MGM has released some interesting double bills)and increase the circulation of classic films on DVD.