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Overview
Release Date:
28 April 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Beware the ChildrenPlot:
A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Indifference to violence moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Christopher Reeve | ... | Dr. Alan Chaffee | |
| Kirstie Alley | ... | Dr. Susan Verner | |
| Linda Kozlowski | ... | Jill McGowan | |
| Michael Paré | ... | Frank McGowan | |
| Meredith Salenger | ... | Melanie Roberts | |
| Mark Hamill | ... | Reverend George | |
| Pippa Pearthree | ... | Sarah, George's Wife | |
| Peter Jason | ... | Ben Blum | |
| Constance Forslund | ... | Callie Blum | |
| Karen Kahn | ... | Barbara Chaffee | |
| Thomas Dekker | ... | David McGowan | |
| Lindsey Haun | ... | Mara Chaffee | |
| Cody Dorkin | ... | Robert | |
| Trishalee Hardy | ... | Julie | |
| Jessye Quarry | ... | Dorothy |
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Rated R for some sci-fi terror and violence.Parents Guide:
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99 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:16 | Italy:VM18 | South Korea:15 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:16 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 (video premiere) | USA:R | Singapore:PGMOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: Mara's white tights become blue anklets during her first visit to the Midwich Clinic. moreQuotes:
Mara Chaffee: Emotion is irrelevant, it is not our natureDr. Alan Chaffee: I'm not sure you're right about that, Mara.
Mara Chaffee: Still you are aware of the others so you must be in some basic sense aware of who... what we are.
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John Carpenter's remake of the 1960 original has little to add but it's more violent and explicit. The plot is the same; 10 women get pregnant simultaneously during a group pass out. Several years go by and the children all look similar and stick together. They appear to be anything but normal and once they start killing the residents of the small village it's clear they have to be stopped.
Carpenter is really a master of suspense and some scenes work remarkably well, however this is not one of his best films. Not much happens here and the film drags a bit, plus the inclusion of a government intervention and a possible world wide epidemic of these children does little to further the film. Still, Carpenter manages to create a decent amount of suspense and uneasiness by playing on the film's simple premise; that little children are the evildoers here. The soulless stares and glowing eyes are enough to creep you out. The social statement about people (and children) becoming indifferent to violence is a valid input, since the film couldn't really go for the same underlying meaning as the original, which was made during the cold war; the children personifying the threat from the east penetrating the west.
An average John Carpenter film is still a lot more interesting than most other horror films out there. Village of the Damned is not one of his best but it's a good film nonetheless.