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Courtesy of Universal Pictures
Nine children with supernatural powers wreak havoc on the tiny coastal town of Midwich in
“Village of the Damned.”
Has-beens populate new Village’
by uerry beitz
Film Critic
We need movies like “Village of
the Damned” to showcase the stars of
yesterday because we don’t have “Fan
tasy Island” or “The Love Boat” to do
it anymore.
Has-beens like Christopher Reeve,
Kirstie Alley and Mark Hamill came
out of the woodwork to star in this
piece of horror schlock... and it’s not
good schlock either.
John Carpenter — who has done
incredible work in the past with stuff
like “Halloween,” “Escape From New
York” and “The Thing”—has begun
to lose his grip on quality work, and
this remake of the 1960 classic is a
perfect example.
The small town of Midwich has a
very Norman Rockwell look and feel,
and life is just so happy and blissful.
However, for no apparent reason
everyone goes unconscious for ex
actly six hours (with horrific results
for the guy standing by the barbecue).
This also sets the record for the
quickest appearance by a has-been
guest star (Michael Pare, Streets of
Fire”) as the driver of a pick-up truck
that falls asleep at the wheel.
Everybody wakes up, and as the
weeks pass, ten women become preg
nant. The pregnancies date back to the
day everyone was unconscious.
The town doctor (Reeve) is under
standably perplexed. Added to this is
the arrival of a mysterious group of
government officials in expensive suits
and sunglasses led by a chain-smok
ing epidemiologist (Alley).
Nine of the 10 children survive
childbirth, and as they grow, their
latent telepathic powers grow with
them. These white-haired whelps soon
begin to wreak havoc throughout the
town in the name of “survival.”
As far as plot and script go, the
movie sucks. There is very little hor
ror or suspense anywhere in the film,
except for the eyedrops scene. That
one had everybody in the theater
squirming.
The special effects were pretty
good, especially the eyes of the kids.
However, it was better in the original.
Everybody acts as if they were in a
The Facts
Film: “Village of the Damned”
Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kirstie
Alley, Mark Hamill
Director: John Carpenter
Rating: R
Grade: D+
Five Words:Horror remake lacks
substance, quality
movie-of-the-week except for Hamill,
who plays the town’s gun-toting min
i ster. He’s probably just happy to be in
a movie that’s not being released
straight to video.
Another familiar face is Linda
Kozlowski from the “Crocodile
Dundee” flicks. There have been laun
dry soap commercials with more tal
ent.
Spend two bucks and rent the 1960
original “Village of the Damned” and
spend the other two bucks on refresh
ments.
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