Village of the Damned (1960)
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)
Genres: Sci-fi, Horror, Mystery
Franchise: Village of the Damned
Directed By: Wolf Rilla
Written By: Wolf Rilla, Stirling Silliphant, John Wyndham, Ronald Kinnoch
Starring: George Sanders, Laurence Naismith, Michael Gwynn, Martin Stephens, Barbara Shelley, Richard Warner
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Village of the Damned belongs to 24 collections
1. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 27 stars)
2. Based on a Book (public: moderated by iconogassed - 18 stars)
3. Edgar Wright 1000 Favorite Movies (Aug 2016) (public: moderated by Aron Ericson - 13 stars)
4. Remade (public: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 3 stars)
5. Reddit Horror Club (public: moderated by RoyalB - 3 stars)
6. Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments (public - 1 star)
7. Evil children (public: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
8. Cinemag's Best Sci-fi Films (public: moderated by hristos - 1 star)
9. Versátil Home Video (public: moderated by allegreller)
10. Wyndham, Kneale, Christopher, James and Their Descendants (public: moderated by Fenius)
11. Leaving Criterion Channel 11/30/20 (public: moderated by CCLZA)
12. Horror (private: fruititself - 4 stars)
13. "Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments" (private - 3 stars)
14. Horror (private: horrorjames - 2 stars)
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Rivette | 60 52% |
| Apr 08 | gossamer2019 | 69 67% |
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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.
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overrated | 51 47% |
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The concept is excellent, but portrayed perhaps a bit silly by today standards. Would love a remake with tons of gore and violence.
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| Oct 19, 2020 | filmcave | 80 75% |
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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.
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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*** ?
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| Oct 15, 2020 | Lonewolf2003 | 72 51% |
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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.
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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
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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.
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Fritz Fass | 60 15% |
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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.
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BadCosmonaut | 5 62% |
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There was a simpsons episode based on this that was also not good.
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The pacing is hellish.
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The build-up much succeeds the finish.
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| Mar 27, 2017 | caffe | 68 37% |
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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.
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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.
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| Nov 27, 2015 | coroner | 70 66% |
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monclivie | 35 5% |
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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".
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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.
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| Feb 22, 2015 | Groooan | 30 62% |
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Dated storytelling but still creepy and effective.
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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!
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| Oct 26, 2014 | toro913 | 55 53% |
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pyrosexual | 70 29% |
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Satan had thousands of years to come up with a plan and this was the best he could do?
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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.
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| Oct 22, 2013 |  |
geoffe | 90 23% |
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PeaceAnarchy | 83 72% |
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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.
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