- Director
- Writers
- John Wyndham(book "The Midwich Cuckoos")
- Stirling Silliphant(1960 screenplay)
- Wolf Rilla(1960 screenplay)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- John Wyndham(book "The Midwich Cuckoos")
- Stirling Silliphant(1960 screenplay)
- Wolf Rilla(1960 screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 3 nominations
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- Director
- Writers
- John Wyndham(book "The Midwich Cuckoos")
- Stirling Silliphant(1960 screenplay)
- Wolf Rilla(1960 screenplay)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was the final feature film completed by Christopher Reeve before a horse riding accident on May 27, 1995 which left him paralyzed.
- GoofsMara's white tights become blue anklets during her first visit to the Midwich Clinic.
- Quotes
Dr. Alan Chaffee: [walks into the barn where the children are] Another man is dead. Why do you hate us so much, Mara?
Mara Chaffee: It isn't a matter of hate. It is a biological obligation.
[short pause]
Mara Chaffee: You are thinking of what happened to the others. Then our actions shouldn't surprise you. We have to survive no matter what the cost; we are the only ones left now.
Dr. Alan Chaffee: I don't see why we can't reach an understanding. Why can't we just live together?
Mara Chaffee: If we coexist, we shall dominate you. That is inevitable. Eventually you will try to eliminate us. We are all creatures of the life force. Now it was set us at one another to see who will survive.
Dr. Alan Chaffee: That's a cruel sport.
Mara Chaffee: Life is cruelty. We all feed on each other, exploit each other in some way to survive.
Dr. Alan Chaffee: [shakes his head] I don't agree with you.
[walks over to where Mara is sitting]
Dr. Alan Chaffee: I think that adaptation is the key to survival. Cooperation and symbiosis...
[kneels by Mara's desk]
Dr. Alan Chaffee: and compassion.
Mara Chaffee: Why do you think your own survival depends upon emotion from us? Shoul we pity you? Empathize with your plight?
Dr. Alan Chaffee: [bangs his fist on Mara's desk]
[shouting]
Dr. Alan Chaffee: You should feel! You should feel something!
[stands up]
Dr. Alan Chaffee: Without feelings, you're nothing. You're just second-rate mimics of a higher organism. That's right, higher organisms. We're your superiors in our capacity to love. Without compassion you're a doomed species.
Mara Chaffee: Emotion is irrelevant. It is not our nature.
Dr. Alan Chaffee: [looks back at David] Well, I'm not so sure you're right about that, Mara.
- ConnectionsFeatured in It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned (2016)
This Sci-Fi thriller contains chills , suspense , intrigue and creepy events about some precocious deadly children and their quest of power . However, it suffers from unimaginative account because being a copy from original film (1960) by Wolf Rilla with more violent and explicit scenes and fails to provide the intelligent atmosphere from previous story . Furthermore , it packs better cinematography by Gary Kibbe who photographs colorful scenarios from the village .Suspenseful and thrilling musical score by the same director John Carpenter .
Other renditions based on John Wyndham novel titled ¨The Midwich cuckoos¨ and well adapted by Stirling Silliphant are the following : The black and white classic (1960) by Wolf Rilla with George Sanders , Michael G. Wynne and Barbara Shelley and followed by ¨Children of the damned (64)¨ by Anton Leader with Ian Hendry , Alan Badel and Barbara Ferris . Rating : Acceptable and passable , providing pleasant screams for the viewer . Essential and indispensable seeing for John Carpenter followers .
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- Nov 2, 2011
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- Also known as
- John Carpenter's Village of the Damned
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $22,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,418,365
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,222,450
- Apr 30, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $9,418,365
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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