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* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960'', the 1960 British science fiction/horror film, adapted from ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.
* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995'', the 1995 remake/readaptation starring Creator/ChristopherReeve.

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* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995'', the 1995 remake/readaptation starring Creator/ChristopherReeve.

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[[quoteright:275:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/village_damned.jpg]]

''Village of the Damned'' is a 1960 British science fiction/horror film by German director Wolf Rilla, adapted fairly faithfully from the Creator/JohnWyndham novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.

The tale begins as every inhabitant of the village of Midwich, even the animals, suddenly falls unconscious, and anyone entering the village likewise falls unconscious. The military establishes a cordon around the village, plus a five-mile exclusion zone for aircraft after the pilot of a plane passing overhead falls unconscious, causing the plane to crash. Nobody can enter the village to find the cause - but when everyone in Midwich wakes again, apparently unaffected by what is soon dubbed a "time out," the danger appears to have passed.

However, two months later, all women and girls of child-bearing age are discovered to be pregnant. All the women give birth on the same day, to strangely identical children, all possessing white-blond hair, striking eyes, and unusual fingernails. As the children grow and develop at a surprising rate, it becomes clear that they share a telepathic bond: what one knows, the others soon know also. And Midwich was not the only community so affected: communities in Australia, Canada, Irkutsk, and the Soviet Union have all seen such births.

However, there is something about these children - these intelligent, well-behaved children - that frightens the adults of Midwich. They show no conscience or love, and can use their mental powers to read minds and force people to do things against their will, even kill themselves.

Now the real question is this: What do they want?

''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, ''Children of the Damned'', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.
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!! ''Village of the Damned'' contains examples of:
* AliensInCardiff
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Examining the alien newborns, a physician claims that blood tests won't reveal anything, as at that age they still mostly have their mothers' blood. The blood of mother and fetus doesn't mix before birth; in fact, a major job of the placenta is to keep them separated by membranes so the mom's immune system won't attack the fetus's tissues.
** Children whose hairs are D-shaped in cross-section should have wavy or curly hair. Only circular hairs grow straight.
* BizarreBabyBoom: Possibly the first visual media example.
* BlondesAreEvil: The alien children.
* ButICantBePregnant: Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to this incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.
* CosyCatastrophe
* CreepyChild: All the mutant children.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The final shot in the end of the original movie has the glowing eyes headed towards the audience as they are looking through the fire.
* EnfanteTerrible: Guess. Go on, guess.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: When the alien children force a villager to drive his car into a wall, the car immediately bursts into flames.
* EvilAlbino: The children.
* EvilDetectingDog: Bruno, the Zellaby family dog, snarls and growls in the presence of alien baby David.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The children are implied to be the result of alien impregnation during the time out.
* ForScience: Professsor Zellaby dismisses evidence that the children are evil and insists they be allowed to live at large the better to study their superior alien minds.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The alien children have these when they use their psychic powers.
* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Zellaby
* HiveMind: The children.
* HypnoticEyes
* KillEmAll: In the original, all of the alien children die along with the teacher responsible, but everyone else survives..
* KillItWithFire: One of villagers suggests this as a way to get rid of the children. He and a group of villagers decide to try TorchesAndPitchforks (minus the pitchforks). [[ManOnFire It does not end well for him.]]
* LiteralMetaphor: In the original, the protagonist focuses on the words "brick wall" to hide how he plans to kill the psychic children. We see their attempts to break through his PsychicStatic as a literal brick wall, which slowly falls to pieces as they force their way in.
* OhCrap: The children's reaction when they find out what's behind the "brick wall".
** Most adults' reactions to turning around and seeing a cluster of the children staring intently at them. Then their eyes start to glow..
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: And the children do this for ''fun''.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: When they are not studying or forcing people to kill themselves, the alien children pass their time playing chess.
* SuperIntelligence: The children can solve complicated puzzles as toddlers.
* UncannyValley: The EvilAlbino in conjunction with the HiveMind and the complete, and utter lack of emotion the children possesses, has this effect on the audience, and even in-universe.
* TheUnreveal: We never learn who created the children, or why.
* VillainousBreakdown: A minor one. David (and by extension, the rest of the children) stop acting smug and are legitimately concerned during the 'brick wall' scene.
* WouldHurtAChild: All the alien children are blown up at the end. For most viewers probably justified in that they are a superior alien race that have about as much regard for human life as humans have for insects.

!!The remake provides examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the remake, David is born without a counterpart, and thus is left vulnerable to emoting with other humans and gaining empathy. He eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn to save his mother, avoiding the same fate with the others like in the original. Female child Mara takes the role of the ringleader instead.
* BlondesAreEvil: The alien children.
* AssholeVictim: The janitor.
* BullyingADragon: In the remake, when the janitor, [[WhatAnIdiot for whatever reason]], decided to harass the children by swinging around a broom. He hits one of them. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice It does not end well]].
* CreepyChild: All the mutant children. The remake tried to fudge this by having one of the boys (the son of the local schoolteacher) lose his female counterpart in childbirth, and thus learn empathy... ''and he's still creepy''
* DisproportionateRetribution: In the remake, the children take any pain inflicted upon them, accidentally or otherwise, and force the adults to experience it taken UpToEleven.
** The little girl who is accidentally given too hot soup, and coincidentally is the leader of the group? She makes her mother stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide via driving off a cliff.
** Another little girl has an acidic substance accidentally dropped in her eyes during an exam. The ringleader of the children then makes the optician [[EyeScream use said drops on her own eyes over and over]] until she's left permanently blind.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the final shot of the remake, it was implied there was a sequel in the works involving David.
* HellishCopter: In the 1995 film, the children mind-whammy a police helicopter pilot into making a rather abrupt and explosive crashlanding.
* KidsAreCruel
* KillEmAll: The remake had everyone die except for the teacher girl and one of the alien children, the only one to have developed human emotions.
* LighterAndSofter: The girl who was destined to be David's mate is stillborn. As a result, David has some emotional vulnerability.
* MamaBear: Jill refuses to believe David is evil, and risks the children's wrath to rescue him. This seems to play a lot into David's HeelFaceTurn.
* ManOnFire: The minister's HolierThanThou wife, Sarah, leads a group that tries to attack the kids while holding a torch. Guess what happens.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: In the remake, the one child who refuses to use his powers for harm survives.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Mara.
* VirtueIsWeakness: Mara states David to be inferior due to his more evident emotions and conscience.
* WhiteSheep: David.
* WouldHurtAChild: All the alien children are killed except for David.

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''Village of the Damned'' is a may refer to:

* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960'', the
1960 British science fiction/horror film by German director Wolf Rilla, film, adapted fairly faithfully from ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.
* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995'',
the Creator/JohnWyndham novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.

The tale begins as every inhabitant of the village of Midwich, even the animals, suddenly falls unconscious, and anyone entering the village likewise falls unconscious. The military establishes a cordon around the village, plus a five-mile exclusion zone for aircraft after the pilot of a plane passing overhead falls unconscious, causing the plane to crash. Nobody can enter the village to find the cause - but when everyone in Midwich wakes again, apparently unaffected by what is soon dubbed a "time out," the danger appears to have passed.

However, two months later, all women and girls of child-bearing age are discovered to be pregnant. All the women give birth on the same day, to strangely identical children, all possessing white-blond hair, striking eyes, and unusual fingernails. As the children grow and develop at a surprising rate, it becomes clear that they share a telepathic bond: what one knows, the others soon know also. And Midwich was not the only community so affected: communities in Australia, Canada, Irkutsk, and the Soviet Union have all seen such births.

However, there is something about these children - these intelligent, well-behaved children - that frightens the adults of Midwich. They show no conscience or love, and can use their mental powers to read minds and force people to do things against their will, even kill themselves.

Now the real question is this: What do they want?

''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, ''Children of the Damned'', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and
1995 remake/readaptation starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.
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!! ''Village of the Damned'' contains examples of:
* AliensInCardiff
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Examining the alien newborns, a physician claims that blood tests won't reveal anything, as at that age they still mostly have their mothers' blood. The blood of mother and fetus doesn't mix before birth; in fact, a major job of the placenta is to keep them separated by membranes so the mom's immune system won't attack the fetus's tissues.
** Children whose hairs are D-shaped in cross-section should have wavy or curly hair. Only circular hairs grow straight.
* BizarreBabyBoom: Possibly the first visual media example.
* BlondesAreEvil: The alien children.
* ButICantBePregnant: Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to this incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.
* CosyCatastrophe
* CreepyChild: All the mutant children.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The final shot in the end of the original movie has the glowing eyes headed towards the audience as they are looking through the fire.
* EnfanteTerrible: Guess. Go on, guess.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: When the alien children force a villager to drive his car into a wall, the car immediately bursts into flames.
* EvilAlbino: The children.
* EvilDetectingDog: Bruno, the Zellaby family dog, snarls and growls in the presence of alien baby David.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The children are implied to be the result of alien impregnation during the time out.
* ForScience: Professsor Zellaby dismisses evidence that the children are evil and insists they be allowed to live at large the better to study their superior alien minds.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The alien children have these when they use their psychic powers.
* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Zellaby
* HiveMind: The children.
* HypnoticEyes
* KillEmAll: In the original, all of the alien children die along with the teacher responsible, but everyone else survives..
* KillItWithFire: One of villagers suggests this as a way to get rid of the children. He and a group of villagers decide to try TorchesAndPitchforks (minus the pitchforks). [[ManOnFire It does not end well for him.]]
* LiteralMetaphor: In the original, the protagonist focuses on the words "brick wall" to hide how he plans to kill the psychic children. We see their attempts to break through his PsychicStatic as a literal brick wall, which slowly falls to pieces as they force their way in.
* OhCrap: The children's reaction when they find out what's behind the "brick wall".
** Most adults' reactions to turning around and seeing a cluster of the children staring intently at them. Then their eyes start to glow..
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: And the children do this for ''fun''.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: When they are not studying or forcing people to kill themselves, the alien children pass their time playing chess.
* SuperIntelligence: The children can solve complicated puzzles as toddlers.
* UncannyValley: The EvilAlbino in conjunction with the HiveMind and the complete, and utter lack of emotion the children possesses, has this effect on the audience, and even in-universe.
* TheUnreveal: We never learn who created the children, or why.
* VillainousBreakdown: A minor one. David (and by extension, the rest of the children) stop acting smug and are legitimately concerned during the 'brick wall' scene.
* WouldHurtAChild: All the alien children are blown up at the end. For most viewers probably justified in that they are a superior alien race that have about as much regard for human life as humans have for insects.

!!The remake provides examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the remake, David is born without a counterpart, and thus is left vulnerable to emoting with other humans and gaining empathy. He eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn to save his mother, avoiding the same fate with the others like in the original. Female child Mara takes the role of the ringleader instead.
* BlondesAreEvil: The alien children.
* AssholeVictim: The janitor.
* BullyingADragon: In the remake, when the janitor, [[WhatAnIdiot for whatever reason]], decided to harass the children by swinging around a broom. He hits one of them. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice It does not end well]].
* CreepyChild: All the mutant children. The remake tried to fudge this by having one of the boys (the son of the local schoolteacher) lose his female counterpart in childbirth, and thus learn empathy... ''and he's still creepy''
* DisproportionateRetribution: In the remake, the children take any pain inflicted upon them, accidentally or otherwise, and force the adults to experience it taken UpToEleven.
** The little girl who is accidentally given too hot soup, and coincidentally is the leader of the group? She makes her mother stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide via driving off a cliff.
** Another little girl has an acidic substance accidentally dropped in her eyes during an exam. The ringleader of the children then makes the optician [[EyeScream use said drops on her own eyes over and over]] until she's left permanently blind.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the final shot of the remake, it was implied there was a sequel in the works involving David.
* HellishCopter: In the 1995 film, the children mind-whammy a police helicopter pilot into making a rather abrupt and explosive crashlanding.
* KidsAreCruel
* KillEmAll: The remake had everyone die except for the teacher girl and one of the alien children, the only one to have developed human emotions.
* LighterAndSofter: The girl who was destined to be David's mate is stillborn. As a result, David has some emotional vulnerability.
* MamaBear: Jill refuses to believe David is evil, and risks the children's wrath to rescue him. This seems to play a lot into David's HeelFaceTurn.
* ManOnFire: The minister's HolierThanThou wife, Sarah, leads a group that tries to attack the kids while holding a torch. Guess what happens.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: In the remake, the one child who refuses to use his powers for harm survives.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Mara.
* VirtueIsWeakness: Mara states David to be inferior due to his more evident emotions and conscience.
* WhiteSheep: David.
* WouldHurtAChild: All the alien children are killed except for David.
Creator/ChristopherReeve.
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''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, Children of the Damned, in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.

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''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, Children ''Children of the Damned, Damned'', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.
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''Village of the Damned'' (1960) is a British {{science fiction}} {{film}} by German director Wolf Rilla, adapted fairly faithfully from the Creator/JohnWyndham novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.

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''Village of the Damned'' (1960) is a 1960 British {{science fiction}} {{film}} science fiction/horror film by German director Wolf Rilla, adapted fairly faithfully from the Creator/JohnWyndham novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.



''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, '''''Children of the Damned''''', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.

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''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, '''''Children Children of the Damned''''', Damned, in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and starring Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/KirstieAlley.
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'''''Village ''Village of the Damned''''' Damned'' (1960) is a British {{science fiction}} {{film}} by German director Wolf Rilla, adapted fairly faithfully from the Creator/JohnWyndham novel ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: When the alien child force a villager to drive his car into a wall the car immediately explodes.

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: When the alien child children force a villager to drive his car into a wall wall, the car immediately explodes.bursts into flames.



* EvilDetectingDog: The Zellaby family dog snarls and growls in the presence of alien baby David.

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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: When they are not studying or forcing people to kill themselves, the alien children pass their time playing chess.
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* ForScience!: Professsor Zellaby dismisses evidence that the children are evil and insists they be allowed to live at large the better to study their superior alien minds.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Professor Zellaby
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* VirtueIsWeakness: Mara states David to be inferior due to his more evident emotions and conscience.
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* MamaBear: Jill refuses to believe David is evil, and risks the children's wrath to rescue him. This seems to play a lot into David's HeelFaceTurn.

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