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Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned

1960
Sci-fi, Horror
1h 17m
In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do. (imdb)
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Village of the Damned

1960
Sci-fi, Horror
1h 17m
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Rated 15 Aug 2023
88
75th
AKA Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader Whose Mind is Connected to a Network of Other Creepy Genius British Schoolchildren?
Rated 28 Dec 2009
73
62nd
The start is particularly good and the escalation as the plot progresses is slick. These kids certainly are creepy with their blank expressions and uniformity, the simple eye effect brilliantly cementing their otherworldly quality. Sanders provides this with much needed sincerity and gravity, but the ending disappoints and feels distinctly short on revelation.
Rated 16 Oct 2020
40
22nd
SPOILERS ; Town falls asleep for hours and no one can communicate with them Than all the women end up pregnant with evil alien kids .......Wait What The F*** ?
Rated 06 Apr 2021
77
77th
A quietly effective, efficient and rather enjoyable adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos. Those kids will give you the heebie-jeebies, especially Stephens with his adult female-dubbed voice. The premise is set up nicely, and fortunately it doesn't try to explain too much. The end perhaps feels a bit rushed compared to the patience exercised earlier, but it makes sense given how the threat to humanity has been cranked up. A bit of a classic, imho.
Rated 23 Oct 2013
70
67th
The film starts off quite intriguingly, but takes a little while to get to what it's actually about. It has a pretty cool science-fiction story, even though it has some pacing issues. It's a very slow burn, and then the climax kind of comes out of nowhere. Still, I enjoyed it and I'd recommend it to genre fans. The children are definitely creepy.
Rated 28 Nov 2015
87
85th
Grabbed me from the opening scene. It gets its point across concisely and effectively, never overstaying its welcome. The script is intelligent, with the characters asking the same logical questions as the audience. The kids, with their glowing eyes and bizarrely mature affect, are creepy as hell. And it's a surprisingly dark movie, given its age. The shotgun scene was pretty disturbing. This is one of the better early 60s horror movies.
Rated 28 Mar 2020
81
62nd
The resolution feels like the writer wrote himself into a corner & fails to live up to the well-executed creepiness that precedes it. Still, it's rare for a film from this era to instill anything resembling horror in a modern audience & although it's not exactly scary it does eerieness really well. It turns pregnancy into something profoundly disturbing & makes blonde children sinister by making them implacable uniforms who never reveal exactly what it is they have in mind for the rest of us
Rated 12 Mar 2009
70
67th
A decent scifi/horror flick that leaves a lot to the imagination. The acting was well done. And when children do a good job in horror movies, they can be very creepy.
Rated 26 Apr 2009
84
79th
I wasn't expecting much, but I thought this was pretty effective and rather creepy. Mind-reading children with scary eyes! I think it got the mood right - I was never laughing at it, at any rate, even if in retrospect some of it is a bit silly.
Rated 13 Mar 2011
68
35th
The good acting and creepy kids was undermined by a a slightly weak story.If the story was a little more fleshed out with more scenes with the kids I would have rated it higher.
Rated 07 Oct 2013
83
72nd
A bit simplistic in terms of plot development, but it's certainly very effective at being creepy. The effects are a good example of less is more.
Rated 30 Sep 2014
70
30th
Satan had thousands of years to come up with a plan and this was the best he could do?
Rated 15 Nov 2014
74
63rd
Dated storytelling but still creepy and effective.
Rated 25 Feb 2015
80
77th
A lot goes unexplained, and probably for the better; what's hinted at is pretty ridiculous. Its characters try hard to be objective about things, lending a science-fictional quality to what's otherwise pretty straight horror. Excellent photography, direction, music; in particular the beginning and the end of the film take it from good to great. The dubbing of the lead child sounds silly but apparently that was actually his voice.
Rated 01 Oct 2015
35
5th
Great premise and I really wanted to like it, but then.. wtf.. ridiculous. These children look like "wtf i just born, let's flush it now", not "what a splendid mind, let's take a look. murders? oh, give me one more year, just one".
Rated 02 Aug 2018
65
37th
Village of the Damned is some solid stuff. Feels of its time in a way that makes it feel like a long Twilight Zone episode, and I'm a huge fan. This isn't to say it's aged poorly. The story is paced at a quick clip that modern audiences will respond to, but this is also a detriment. There's a lot of dialogue summarizing characterization of the children that isn't actually shown, often cutting out areas for tension to build. The glowing eyes are still effective, though underused I'd say.
Rated 14 Jan 2023
50
26th
A good idea that wasn't executed properly in the 60's or the 90's. Perhaps another remake is in order? Bring it!
Rated 23 Jan 2007
80
76th
The beginning is very strong (the opening sequence is quite eerie) but the ending isn't quite so effective. Good movie, though.
Rated 01 Mar 2007
50
35th
Passes the time.
Rated 02 Apr 2008
70
61st
The last of the great (or, at least, very good) 50's paranoia sci-fi/horror flicks.
Rated 30 Sep 2008
80
84th
Depite being nearly 50 years old, still as creepy as
Rated 08 Mar 2009
3
0th
"A strong and subtle horror film from England."
Rated 06 Apr 2009
80
86th
Good idea for a B-movie, even though it really isn't, it's still damn good.
Rated 14 Dec 2009
80
81st
Creepy children..
Rated 16 Feb 2010
7
77th
Between this and The Innocents, Martin Stephens really was just about the creepiest thing to come out of the early 60s. Highly effective adaptation of Wyndham's great novel, with Sanders in fine form.
Rated 13 Jan 2011
78
12th
This is a decent work of atom-age horror that warrants a viewing.
Rated 15 Jan 2011
71
51st
The beguining sequence was impressive, but after a while I started to feel like I was watching and episode of Little Britain. "BRICK WALL BRICK WALL!"
Rated 21 Mar 2011
50
58th
Nice one
Rated 24 Oct 2011
87
75th
Thoroughly creepy.
Rated 26 Oct 2011
84
77th
84.000
Rated 06 Nov 2011
86
86th
Not to be confused with "The Children of the Damned" or Disney's "That Damned Village".
Rated 26 Nov 2012
60
20th
Village of the Damned is "a'ight"; the kids are a little creepy, but the film itself is rather sluggish and uninteresting.
Rated 05 Jan 2013
66
18th
These kids are as mean as fashionistas. Flick`s okay because it doesn't try to overdo it with the scary. Too bad the plot doesn't really thicken and the music is really bad.
Rated 05 Jan 2013
31
24th
those DAMN kids.
Rated 23 Mar 2014
85
83rd
84.500
Rated 29 Oct 2014
77
71st
i do have a soft spot for 60s horror, but this one builds its tension well. taut storyline with a good conclusion. not much more you can ask for!
Rated 27 Mar 2017
57
45th
A lot of great ideas in this horror movie, which unfortunately could have been a lot better had it expanded further on some of them instead of finishing it all in a too brisk 78 minutes. After some fantastic buildup in the first half, the finale feels a bit like you got cheated.
Rated 01 Apr 2017
65
22nd
The build-up much succeeds the finish.
Rated 29 Aug 2017
12
5th
The pacing is hellish.
Rated 11 Sep 2017
50
21st
There was a simpsons episode based on this that was also not good.
Rated 16 Mar 2020
80
64th
Em honra do centenário de Wolf Rilla. Filho de Walter Rilla, dirigiu algumas dezenas de filmes e episódios de séries de TV, mas é notoriamente mais lembrado por esse A Aldeia dos Amaldiçoados. Martin Stephens foi figurinha fácil em clássicos ingleses do horror dos anos 60: The Innocents e The Witches também contaram com sua presença e é fácil ver o porquê, ele consegue ser mesmo horripilante. Box Versátil Obras-primas do Terror Volume 1.
Rated 15 Oct 2020
72
51st
A very decent horror with a good creepy atmosphere, thanks those eerie kids. But it has some serious pacing issues. Despite its short running time, it takes it time well to set up the situation. In contrast the final act is rushed, while this makes for some efficient storytelling, it does feel more could have been done to build extra tension with those sinister kids.
Rated 18 Oct 2020
70
54th
The plot kinda moves at a breakneck pace. I thought there were a lot of plot elements the movie could have lingered on, like these kids' dynamics with their families, or the studying of their behavior, or the creepy children who were born in other countries, but the whole thing is very straight-to-the-point. The abruptness of the ending especially stunned me.
Rated 04 Dec 2020
80
68th
The concept is excellent, but portrayed perhaps a bit silly by today standards. Would love a remake with tons of gore and violence.
Rated 06 Oct 2023
68
55th
AKA oh no our children have become young conservatives! There's a lot of meat in VotD, essentially a more British horror version of Childhood's End, that's as it should be. Post-war generation gap, that's a rich mine. Which makes it a pity that it plays the whole thing so quickly; there's very little conflict among the parents, very little ambiguity; everyone just knows right away that the children are Strange and are happy to write them off. Which may be exactly the point, I guess.

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