Village of the Damned
A small town’s women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.
- Director:John Carpenter
- Genre:Horror / Sci-Fi
- Runtime:98 minutes
Cast
Christopher Reeve: Dr. Alan Chaffee
Kirstie Alley : Dr. Susan Verner
Linda Kozlowski : Jill McGowan
Michael Paré : Frank McGowan
Meredith Salenger: Melanie Roberts
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The American village of Midwich was invaded by an unseen force which left ten women of the quiet coastal town mysteriously pregnant. Nine months later, the babies were born simultaneously but one was stillborn. At first, they all appeared to be normal, but it doesn’t take the “parents” long to realize that their “children” are anything but normal. As they grew older, the children were shown to have pale skin, platinum-white hair, fierce intellect and steely, cobalt eyes. The emotionless children displayed eerie psychic abilities and remarkable powers, which they used with deadly consequences, unleashing a reign of terror. When they actively used their mind-controlled powers, their irises or their entire eyes glowed in different colours, mostly reddish-orange, but also green, yellow, violet, blue or pure white.
There are some story differences from the earlier adaptation. In this version, the children “paired off”, but one of the children, David, lost his “partner” after she died at birth. As a result, he showed human compassion while still resembling the other children and retaining some degree of psychic powers. As a result, he did not fit in well with the children. Their ruthless leader, Mara (“daughter” of a local doctor, Dr. Alan Chaffee; her mother, Barbara, committed suicide by walking off an ocean cliff), considered him less important due to his expression of emotions. Because of his childhood loss, he understood what the other children did not: pain. He and his mother (the local school principal, Jill McGowan), shared a brief conversation about this, with David understanding that if he feels pain, he can understand others pain also. When the other children experience pain, they simply use their powers to inflict the same pain on the adult responsible for the pain.
Soon the other colonies of psychotic children in foreign countries were eliminated because of their danger. The scientific team at Midwich quickly fled the town to escape the chaos. However, the lead government scientist, Dr. Susan Verner, was killed by the children after being forced to show them David’s “partner”, the baby that was stillborn. Susan had secretly kept it so that she could perform an autopsy on it and study it. A mob of angry townspeople attempted to stop the children, but they used their powers to kill the leader of the mob causing the other townspeople to flee quickly. The State Police and the National Guards were then sent out to kill the children, who instead hypnotized them into shooting each other in a chaotic gun battle. Read more
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