Children of the Damned (1964)
Directed by Anton Leader
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
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What critics compared Children of the Damned to
That late-noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese’s masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders ’s Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (2006, Glasgow).
Iâ??ve seen a few too many fascinating character studies to subscribe entirely to that sentiment, ranging from Taxi Driver to There Will Be Blood, but that doesnâ??t mean that Joe Moviegoer doesnâ??t have a point.
One minute it’s The Big Chill ; the next it’s Children of the Damned .
…does not come until after the discovery that the villagers appear to have been taken over by alien pod-people, or replaced by Stepford robots, or something similarly nefarious, when the movie blossoms in all its Wright-Pegg glory as a rip on Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Children of the Damned or an episode of Doctor Who (plus beer and minus the Doctor).
But her cold, Children of the Damned eyes and the not quite right texture of her face give her away at close range.
Children with strange powers are, of course, a science-fiction staple, "Village of the Damned" and "Children of the Damned" being but two examples.
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As we’ve seen in “Children of the Damned” and assorted other bits of Brit horror, there are few things scarier than an English schoolboy.
The premise of Salt may be hokum, but it cleverly braids together old Cold War tensions with new fears of al-Qaeda, topping it off with touches from The Manchurian Candidate and Children of the Damned.