Village of the Damned (The Village of the Damned) (1960)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Wolf Rilla

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George Sanders
Gordon Zellaby

Barbara Shelley
Anthea Zellaby

Michael Gwynn
Major Alan Bernard

Laurence Naismith
Doctor Willers

John Phillips
General Leighton

Richard Vernon
Sir Edgar Hargraves

Jenny Laird
Mrs. Harrington

Thomas Heathcote
James Pawle

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Stirling Silliphant
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Wolf Rilla
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2 years, 7 months ago at May 28 23:36

fernando

(OK) The terror I love: idiots plots to the minimum, people gathering and not dispersing against a very identified monsters, effective narration, effective dialogues, famil ties mixed with the confrotation of evil...

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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.)

Release date: 21 September 1960
UPC: 012569691827

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