Synopsis
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
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Cast
- Christopher ReeveDr. Alan Chaffee
- Kirstie AlleyDr. Susan Verner
- Linda KozlowskiJill McGowan
- Michael ParéFrank McGowan
- Meredith SalengerMelanie Roberts
- Mark HamillReverend George
- Pippa PearthreeSarah, George's Wife
- Peter JasonBen Blum
- Constance ForslundCallie Blum
- Karen KahnBarbara Chaffee
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Mr. Carpenter gives this formerly black and white story a handsome color retelling and a lot of new punch. And he avidly exploits the fears that are at its heart. Now add a new one. With its baleful little villains, Village of the Damned is even creepier to watch as a parent than it was to see as a child. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Village of the Damned is a good-looking, well-wrought film with some knockout special effects, some dark humor and crisp portrayals. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Curiously mellow for a John Carpenter thriller, Village of the Damned, a full-color, cornball special-effects remake of the 1960 sci-fi favorite, is a trip to a village of the darned tedious. - 42
The A.V. Club
Village Of The Damned is probably the worst movie John Carpenter ever directed: hokey, miscast, devoid of tension and atmosphere. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
When the children in Carpenter’s Village flash their glowing eyes, hypnotizing the hapless grown-ups into committing a series of increasingly lurid suicides, the kids don’t seem much more bizarre — or frightening — than your average 10-year-old Nintendo freak. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED projects the most basic of human terrors: the fear of group power overtaking individual will is expressed in the children as well as in the government and medical establishment which intervene in the realm of the body by manipulating reproductive decisions. - 38
Boston Globe
Village of the Damned has everything you want in a horror movie but the horror. [28 Apr 1995, p.90] - 30
Washington Post
Has John Carpenter lost his mind or just his talent? On the heels of In the Mouth of Madness comes the director's rehash of the 1960 classic, Village of the Damned. Unfortunately, Carpenter simply makes a hash of it.
