Le Village des damnés

Original title: Village of the Damned

1995
12
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

35K

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Home Video Trailer from Universal Studios Home Entertainment

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Horror Sci-Fi Thriller

A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

35K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Village of the Damned (1995)

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Village Of The Damned: You Ain't Right

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Village Of The Damned: You Ain't Right

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Village Of The Damned: Glowing Eyes

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Trivia
The film was shot in western Marin County, California. Director John Carpenter had a house in Inverness for several years, so the location was essentially his second home at that time (as the director puts it, "his own backyard"). However, the locals were not happy to see the film crew in the area so they made the shoot very difficult by harassment and vandalism. Carpenter tells that while they were filming, for example, a sound take, a neighbor would start mowing his lawn or start up a chainsaw until he was paid to stop. Some of the people even tried to break into the equipment trucks. The whole experience essentially soured Carpenter on living in the area, where several scenes of his earlier film "Fog (1980)" were also filmed.

Goofs
Baby Mara, has dark brown eyes, older Mara has light blue eyes.

Quotes
Dr. Susan Verner: What can you read that's in my head?
Mara Chaffee: Everything that is active in your mind. However, the path that leads to the speaking process eludes us. Why to you speak some thoughts but not others?
Dr. Susan Verner: Wouldn't it be a noisy world if we all said what we thought?

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: French Kiss/My Family/Panther/Village of the Damned/Picture Bride (1995)

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7/10

Damned Village

John Carpenter's ambitious remake of the 1960s horror thriller/chiller about demonic children with extra-sensory perception powers who raise Hell in their home town. As with "The Thing", this remake of a horror classic is very creepy and atmospheric. Nothing less is to be expected of John Carpenter.

The late Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) gives a solid performance as the local doctor and all around nice guy protagonist Dr. Alan Chaffee, who unfortunately is the father of the ringleader of the evil hell-spawn children. Sadly, this was his last theatrical film before he was paralyzed below the neck in the notorious horse riding accident. Not to be overly sentimental with my praise, but he really was an underrated actor.

Interestingly, in addition to featuring Superman/Reeve, Mark Hamill, AKA: Voice of the Joker and also everyone's favorite Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, also appears as an ill-fated priest along with former Vulcan vixen Kirstie Alley as an FBI agent keeping an eye on the evil little bastards.