I've seen Village of the Damned a couple of times now and found it very spooky.
Life suddenly stops in Midwich for some strange reason, everybody stopping what they are doing wherever they are. Some hours later, everything starts moving again. The strange thing is that most of the women in the village are pregnant. Looks like aliens or something has invaded the village. When the babies are born, they tend to grow quickly and don't seem to be normal. They aren't and these children are aliens and make people kill each other by controlling them. That's when we see their eyes glowing white. Towards the end, Professor Zellaby, whose wife has given birth to one of these little monsters, heads to the place where they are staying with a suitcase full of dynamite...
Village of the Damned is shot on location in a English country village, from which you get a sense of a small rural community typical of England.
The excellent cast includes several familiar faces: Falcon actor George Sanders, Hammer regular Barbara Shelley (Quatermass and the Pit, Dracula: Prince of Darkness), Laurence Naismith (The Valley of Gwangi, Jason and the Argonauts), Martin Stephens (The Innocents), Michael Gwynn (The Revenge of Frankenstein) and Peter Vaughan (Porridge).
Village of the Damned is a good way to spend an hour and a quarter one evening. Very creepy.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
Life suddenly stops in Midwich for some strange reason, everybody stopping what they are doing wherever they are. Some hours later, everything starts moving again. The strange thing is that most of the women in the village are pregnant. Looks like aliens or something has invaded the village. When the babies are born, they tend to grow quickly and don't seem to be normal. They aren't and these children are aliens and make people kill each other by controlling them. That's when we see their eyes glowing white. Towards the end, Professor Zellaby, whose wife has given birth to one of these little monsters, heads to the place where they are staying with a suitcase full of dynamite...
Village of the Damned is shot on location in a English country village, from which you get a sense of a small rural community typical of England.
The excellent cast includes several familiar faces: Falcon actor George Sanders, Hammer regular Barbara Shelley (Quatermass and the Pit, Dracula: Prince of Darkness), Laurence Naismith (The Valley of Gwangi, Jason and the Argonauts), Martin Stephens (The Innocents), Michael Gwynn (The Revenge of Frankenstein) and Peter Vaughan (Porridge).
Village of the Damned is a good way to spend an hour and a quarter one evening. Very creepy.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5.