1960 · sci-fi · horror
Village of the Damned
Directed by Wolf Rilla1h 17m1960
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Our read: Village of the Damned (1960) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- cold
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