School of the Damned

The budget for this film was £2.34 and it was really poorly spent.

I gave it 2 stars because the premise was good and its was pretty amusing. Also, the main demon child looks like my wife did in the early 90s.

You've seen most of what is served here in a much better way. In horror movies you may consider classics - but even if not you at least will like them more than this. Village of the Damned and so forth come to mind.

Still I reckon it is always eerie to have little ones be ... well evil. I've seen worse and the editing makes certain shocks and effects/deaths work even on the small budget this very likely had ... but will it be enough to keep you interested?

"School of the damned" is a pretty promising title for an intended horror movie, but they didn't in any way live up to it. It fails on the most basic aspects: the story is shaky and goes all over the place, the atmosphere isn't a bit scary, and the acting is below par. With the exception of attractive and sympathetic James Groom, who plays main character Tony, the new teacher who unknowingly enters this weird school, he's the only talented actor in the cast and does his best, but cannot help drowning in the silliness and amateurism that surrounds him. The children that are the sources of all evil are supposed to look extremely menacing and sinister, but cramping your face as if you're constipated doesn't really do the trick. The only thing I liked was the way all the scholars immediately, as a drilled army platoon, responded on the tapping of the staff of the headmaster, that was a nice find. But for the rest: disappointing and totally superfluous.

Incredibly slow and boring. Primary children could put on a better play.

Plagiarized shamelessly from the book, "The Midwich Cuckoos", John Wyndham 1957, adapted into two movies, "Village of the Damned", 1960, and 1995 (both excellent, I thought!)

None of the kids in this movie can act, but that actually might fall on the shoulders of the director and writers.