Village of the Damned
1960 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
A mysterious forcefield affects the English village of Midwich, causing everybody within its radius to fall asleep. Afterwards every women of child-bearing age is found to be pregnant, including teenage girls and women whose husbands were absent. All give birth to blonde-haired children who have remarkable intelligence and a complete lack of emotion. As the villagers band together in fear, the children group together to defend against all that threatens them and demonstrate powerful mind control abilities.
Direction Wolf Rilla
Cast George Sanders · Barbara Shelley · Martin Stephens · Michael Gwynne · Laurence Naismith · John Phillips · Richard Vernon
Soundtrack Ron Goodwin
Screenplay Stirling Silliphant · Wolf Rilla · George Barclay · John Wyndham
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Original title Village of the Damned
7.0
5K votes (FilmAffinity)
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