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Children of the Damned
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UK 1963
produced by
Lawrence P. Bachmann (executive) for MGM
directed by Andon Leader
starring Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark, Martin Miller, Harold Goldblatt, Patrick White, André Mikhelson, Bessie Love, Clive Powell, Lee Yoke-Moon, Roberta Rex, Gerald Delsol, Mahdu Mathen, Frank Summerscale
screenplay by John Briley, based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, music by Ron Goodwin

review by
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All around the world, six extraordinary children (Clive Powell, Lee Yoke-Moon, Roberta Rex, Gerald Delsol, Mahtu Mathen, Frank Summerscale) were all born under the same circumstances, and now they show intelligence far above that of an ordinary human, and even a remarkable talent for mind-control, telepathy and more ...

The UNESCO gathers the six kids in London to have them examined by scientists Lewellin (Ian Hendry) and Newill (Alan Badel), but soon the Secret Service - represented by Colin Webster (Alfred Burke) - wants to get their hands on the kids too, and so does Russia. The kids though have ideas of their own, and soon enough they all run away and bunk up in an abandoned church, and they only accept the company of Susan (Barbara Ferris), their leader Paul's (Clive Powell) aunt, whom they obviously need to to the housework while they are building a machine. Numerous attempt by officials, the Secret Service and foreign agents to get their hands on the kids only lead to one bloodbath after another since the kids are perfectly capable of making their opponents kill themselves most brutally.

In the end, the army has surrounded the abandoned church the kids are in, while the children agree to negotiations ... which is when someone accidently orders the troops to open fire - and the kids are blown to Kingdom Come.

 

More often than not, Children of the Damned is dismissed as a mere remake of Village of the Damned - which by all means it is not.

Of course, the two films share the same premise as they are based on the same novel, and Children is a (semi-)sequel to Village - but the similarities end pretty much here. While Village of the Damned is a straightforward spooker about weird and way-too-powerful kids born into a small village and the disastrous consequences, Children of the Damned spins a yarn about espionage, foreign gouvernments, and two scientists lost in the middle, with a bunch of ingenious kids thrown in as well ... in direct comparison though, Village of the Damned is the far better film, it's genuinely creepy while Children of the Damned just sems to be a not really thought through espionage roundabout - and the ending of Children is especially crappy, when the kids are blown away by mere accident ... couldn't anybody have come up with something better than that ? Actually, the whole film is not really a good movie, not without its moments maybe, but not really worth your while either.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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