Village of the Damned (1960)

Village of the Damned (1960, GBR) B&W-77m. *** D: Wolf Rilla. Starring George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon. After an inexplicable black-out in the little village of Midwich, where people fell unconscious, all the women are found to be pregnant. Did some extra-terrestrial power impregnate them? Will the children be monsters? Right on-target, well-directed chiller benefits from tight script by Stirling Silliphant and Wolf Rilla, adapting the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. A small British horror classic, remade by John Carpenter in 1995. Followed by CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED.


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