Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:21:50 + 01:34:16 | 7,72 Gb
Audio: English, French - AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:21:50 + 01:34:16 | 7,72 Gb
Audio: English, French - AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Innocent-looking children in a small English community prove to be aliens with demonic powers let loose upon the Village of the Damned and six psychic, super-smart children from the original Village are pursued by a psychologist and the rest of the inferior" human race in the sequel Children of the Damned…
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Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Director: Wolf Rilla
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.)
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Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
As with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) before it, 1960's VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is a cold-war allegory that uses extraterrestrial infiltration to represent Western fears of Communist invasion. Even so, this flick is still one of the best SF thrillers ever made, and it has become one of the SF cinema classics.
Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
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When a group of albino children born under mysterious circumstances begin to demonstrate superhuman mental prowess, they come to be viewed by their community and the military as a threat to the survival of mankind. Though faithful to the novel on which it is based–THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS by Brit SF author John Wyndham–the film is in many ways more frightening, mainly due to simple but effective special FX and outstanding performances from adult leads George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, and Michael Gwynn and from child actor Martin Stephens. Indeed, the unusually reserved and sympathetic performance from Sanders–well known in England at the time for his over-the-top portrayals of villains or cynical antiheroes–makes the film's climax extremely dramatic and affecting.
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Caveat: Avoid John Carpenter's far inferior 1995 remake.Customer Reviewer, amazon.com
Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
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Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
Children of the Damned (1964)
Director: Anton Leader
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.
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Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
1963's CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED was originally marketed and is still often regarded today as the sequel to the 1960 classic VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. However, the second film's script diverges so drastically from the characters and premise of the first that it is not, in actuality, a continuation of or branch-off from the same narrative–super-intelligent children are the only common story element. While cold-war issues are still addressed, sympathies are ultimately directed towards the children rather than the adults or society at large, reflecting the burgeoning shift from conservatism to liberalism that was then occurring in the West (and especially the United States).
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A decent SF film in its own right, CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED just isn't as cinematically effective nor as dramatically memorable as its purported progenitor VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. In truth, its greatest merit is the fact that it marks the first solo scriptwriting credit for John Briley, who would later go on to win an Oscar for scripting 1982's GANDHI.Customer Reviewer, amazon.com
Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
Village of the Damned (1960) + Children of the Damned (1964)
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The double-feature DVD from Warner Home Video is well worth the price of admission. Not only does it offer anamorphic widescreen versions of both films, each film also includes its respective trailer and a feature commentary (John Briley does the commentary for the film he scripted). Definitely a five-star disc.
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