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Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned (DVD) (Multi-Title)

Wolf Rilla (Director, Writer), Anton M. Leader (Director), Stirling Silliphant (Actor), Rated:

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Genre	Horror
Format	Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby
Contributor	Michael Gwynne, Ian Hendry, Alfred Burke, Barbara Shelley, Alan Badel, Ronald Kinnoch, George Sanders, Wolf Rilla, Barbara Ferris, Ben Arbeid, Anton M. Leader, Stirling Silliphant, John Wyndham, John Briley See more
Language	English
Runtime	2 hours and 47 minutes

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Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned (DVD) (Multi-Title)

We have met the enemies, and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that’s the problem: They are the offspring of aliens who secretly impregnated human women! That’s the riveting premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife with paranoia and set in England’s tiny Midwich. There, the glowing-eyed humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does. It’s “yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world” in the sequel, Children of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who may be a leap forward in human evolution are brought from around the globe to England for scientific study – and then the terror hits with full force. Children, behave!

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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.)

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. --Robert Horton

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 12569691827
Director ‏ : ‎ Wolf Rilla, Anton M. Leader
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 47 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Stirling Silliphant, George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynne, Ian Hendry
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Ronald Kinnoch, Ben Arbeid
Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Unqualified, English (Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00027JYMG
Writers ‏ : ‎ Wolf Rilla, Ronald Kinnoch, John Wyndham, John Briley
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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R.E.M.

4 for Village, 2 for Children

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 13, 2023

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Village: 1) classic; 2) actually creepy kids.
Children: 1) ugh; 2) not creepy children (actually kind of adorable and quiet); 3) tries to force you to have an opinion on principles when all you wanted was to watch creepy kids being creepy.
Also, unsure if the second one is an attempt to explain the first, but if it is screw that.

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Classic double feature, disc plays perfectly

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 6, 2021

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I don't understand why so many people seem to be having difficulties with this disc. I ordered a used one, from a vendor fulfilled by Amazon, and it works flawlessly in multiple devices. My best guess is that people are somehow getting a foreign release accidentally.

Returning things on Amazon is always a breeze so certainly take the chance of you're at all interested in these films. I bought the disc for less than the streaming rentals would have been. Trailer and commentary for both films are included.

As for the people who can't access the second movie, the main menu shows Village on the top and Children on the bottom. Arrow to the one you want and hit enter to access the menu for that movie. From that point to switch to the other film, just select the thing that looks like a rewind symbol, two left pointing triangles, that's above the other menu selections, scenes features languages.

If you're seeing something different than I decribed, you're not dealing with the same disc. Amazon tends to lump reviews together and I think there is a Warner Archive release which may be organized differently. I doubt it though. It would likely be the same disc design just as a dvd-r. Some people have had problems playing dvd-r 's but I never have. The packaging of mine has Village on the left side and Children on the right in a similar style to many other classic Warner horror releases such as the Val Lewton Collection.

Don't be scared off by the reviews. It should play fine and you can't beat the price. Then check out Shout Factory 's blu-ray of the John Carpenter remake which is packed with great features.

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J. Medina

Very good rendition of story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2013

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VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is a good example of something not done today: a sci-fi movie (or any file for that matter) which doesn't talk down to it's audience. I'm reminded that Hollywood USED TO expect more from it's audience. Horror and sci-fi films alluded to things, implied things, or (gasp!) described something without actually showing it on screen. Your enjoyment of a film benefited by you paying attention. Now, Hollywood simply beats you over the head with visuals, and failing that, turns up the volume to 11.

This is a subtle, well crafted film with credible performances. The special effects are limited, and not well done. But THAT is not the focus of the film: the story is (WHAT!). It is a good adaptation of John Wyndham's THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS, though as is frequently the case, pales compared to the novel. The casting and settings are perfect: you never once doubt you are in the English countryside. The story effectively blurs the line between what is evil and what is survival. it postulates some theories, but ultimately allow the audience to interpret what happened.

CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED is only slightly less good than its predecessor. Again, the casting is very good, and the special effects are equally limited and weak. The children are afforded less dialogue than in the original, but this actually works to make what they say carry more weight. Again, the story ultimately becomes one of survival, but boils back down to, survival of what? The next stage in evolution? Our conquerors? They do deviate slightly in this film from the original: where all the children born are similar in appearance wherever they appeared in the world, in this version they are ethnically diverse. Maybe the aliens (if that's what they are) learned from their first experience, and used a little more humans genes in the pool.

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Trevor Willsmer

"You are thinking of a brick wall. You are thinking of a brick wall.."

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2006

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Despite having a name that sounds like a German-Japanese dinosaur movie and a drastically reduced budget after MGM got nervous over the possible reaction from the Catholic Legion of Decency, Wolf Rilla managed to deliver a genuine low-budget classic that makes light of its limitations in Village of the Damned. Surprisingly faithful to the source (The Midwich Cuckoos) despite the many changes, it's another variation on novelist's John Wyndham's big theme, the battle for supremacy between two species - in this case the human race and the intellectually superior children spawned after a mysterious alien intervention that sees a small village rendered unconscious in a memorably staged sequence that combines the mundane with the inexplicable. Rather than exploiting the premise and the dangerous telekinetic abilities of the children for shock effects (although they do demonstrate them in a couple of memorable sequences), for the most part the film is as much concerned with the twin dilemmas of whether the children are a potential boon or a threat to the human race and of finding a way to defeat or destroy an enemy that not only knows what you're thinking but which is still a part of your own family. With an excellent screenplay, tightly constructed and imaginatively directed with a great ending - "You are thinking of a brick wall. You are thinking of a brick wall.." - it holds up remarkably well nearly a half century on.

Children of the Damned is morally and politically more ambitious still, exploring the notion that humans are perhaps far worse than the cuckoos in their midst. Unfortunately it's also very dull, good performances from Alfred Burke and Ian Hendry notwithstanding. There's no real involvement or forward momentum, and it exists in a vacuum - the events in the first film are never even acknowledged. But the saving grace of the Region 1 DVD at least is screenwriter John Briley's audio commentary (neither commentary is included on the foreign issues), dealing with the themes of the movie as well as taking detailed diversions into the effect of the blacklist on Hollywood, the exile of US talent to Britain and the artistic and political freedom that MGM UK's sheep farming activities gave them! (There's also a brief harbinger of things to come with a photo of Gandhi overlooking Indian politicians debating killing the children in the film: Briley would go on to write Attenborough's biopic.)

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Mad Dog

Two Excellent examples of British Horror

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 20, 2020

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Most horror films are bad, and the crop from 1960 aren't particularly exceptional: you might have Psycho, but you also have The Leech Woman, The Hypnotic Eye, 13 Ghosts, House of Usher, etc.

Village of The Damned is one of the better examples. A whole village falls asleep, and a few months later all the women are revealed to be pregnant.

The film was originally schedule to be shot in California, but fear of a conservative backlash over the virgin birth concept delayed production and it eventually moved to the UK. This is probably why it is so good. Village of The Damned is a slow burner; starting on the day everyone falls asleep, the the mystery and suspense builds steadily through a series of escalating horrors.

Children of The Damned, expanding on the themes of the first movie, isn't quite as good, but still worth the watch.

Print and Sound quality are excellent.

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Converge78

8 days early

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2021

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Excellent, I would definately buy from this seller again.

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Krista B

It doesn't keep the paper cover flat so it makes it look almost like it has a ripple to it like it's been ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 11, 2017

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Case is not made well. It doesn't keep the paper cover flat so it makes it look almost like it has a ripple to it like it's been water damaged because the plastic case is not solid behind the paper. Makes it look cheap.

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Alphonse250

Must see!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 23, 2018

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These are old B&W movies with exceptional quality, nothing grainy here. At one time these were damn scary.

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Michelle H

Good combo

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 20, 2020

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It was nice to have both these movies on one DVD.

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