Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned

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Buy Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned. This release contains two suspenseful horror films from the 1960s: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED. See individual titles for detailed information.

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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


Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned Review


VILLAGE....

I first saw 'Village Of The Damned' on a late show on TV back in 1971. I had never heard of this movie before then. Whole town suddenly passes out, nobody knows why, okay, I was mildly interested in it. And then, these strange kids are born. Okay, the flick's getting better. And these babies are serious! They don't smile, cry, or anything. Suddenly, one of them is provoked by another kid, and now his eyes are glowing! The bully kid turns and sees another one of the strange kids, and now her eyes are glowing too! And with that, this flick went from being "mildly interesting" to being one of those creepy classics that I couldn't watch late at night....for years. Within no time, these kids took over the whole town. And these kids were all business, right up to the end. Anybody stepped out of line, all it took was that glowing glare to eradicate any infidels, usually by suicide. This flick had one of the best endings that I've ever seen in a sci-fi movie. A very well made, very intelligent flick that explored the question of alien life-forms invading the Earth via artificial insemination. After I saw this for the first time, it was bedtime right after it went off, and all I saw in the darkness was those floating, glowing eyes.

CHILDREN....

I saw 'Children Of The Damned' in the mid-70's on the 4:30 Movie (NY), and to this day, I can't remember a single thing about it. Obviously, it didn't leave much of an impact the way 'Village' did.
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