Village of the Damned is an English science fiction film made in 1960 by German director Wolf Rilla. The film is a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The lead role of Professor Gordon Zellaby was played by George Sanders.
This film was #92 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned is an English language 1995 science fiction-horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is marketed with the tagline "Beware the children."
A remake of the 1960 film of the same name, both films are based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The 1995 remake is set in the United States, while the book and original film were both set in Great Britain.
It stars Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Pare, and Mark Hamill. The remake stands out from the original due to its incorporation of graphic violence, with depictions of such things as a man falling asleep on a barbecue grill and a woman cutting herself with a scalpel while under the children's psychic control.
The children are much more explicitly alien than in the original film. The children become more alien-looking as they use their powers at greater intensity. Also, a degree of conspiracy theory permeates the storyline. It is implied that the American government is willing to allow the children to grow to adulthood regardless of how many murders the children commit, according to Susan's words.
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realise that the kids are not human or humane. Written by Rob Hartill
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. Written by Leon Wolters
