History Film / VillageOfTheDamned

* 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.

* InfantImmortality: The alien children do not harm the ordinary children of Midwich even when they they annoy or harass them.
** Subverted of course with the alien kids themselves.
** It is implied that they caused a boy who was normally a strong swimmer to drown.

* KillEmAll: In the original, all of the alien children die along with the teacher responsible, but everyone else survives.

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

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: David in the 1995 remake.

''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, '''''Children of the Damned''''', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by JohnCarpenter and starring Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley.

* HypnoticEyes

''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''.

''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, ''Children of the Damned'', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by JohnCarpenter and starring Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley.

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

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** MarkHamill is the local minister.
** Film/{{Superman}} is the Doctor/Teacher of the children and Mara's "father".
** Don't forget [[{{Cheers}} Kirstie Alley]] as the government investigator [[spoiler: who's forced to cut herself up to death [[HeKnowsTooMuch for digging in too much]].]]

* EyesOfGold: The children.

* CreepyChild: All the mutant children. The remake tried to fudge this by having one of the boys lose his female counterpart in childbirth, and thus learn empathy.

** The little girl who is accidentally given too hot soup? Makes her mother stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide.

** Film/{{Superman}} is the Doctor/Teacher of the children and Mara's father.

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

''Village Of The Damned'' (1960) is a British {{science fiction}} {{film}} by German director Wolf Rilla, adapted fairly faithfully from the John Wyndham novel ''The Midwich
Cuckoos''.

* 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 lose his female counterpart in childbirth, and thus learn empathy.
* 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? Makes her mother stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide.
** 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: 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. In the final shot of the remake, it was implied there was a sequel in the works involving David.

** David in the 1995 remake is more of a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.

* 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. In the original, all of the alien children die along with the teacher responsible, but everyone else survives.

* HellishCopter: In the 1995 film, the children mind-whammy a police helicopter pilot into making a rather abrupt and explosive crashlanding.
* HeyItsThatGuy: MarkHamill is the local minister.
** [[SuperMan Superman]] Is the Doctor/Teacher of the children and Mara's father.

* RedemptionEarnsLife: In the remake, the one child who refuses to use his powers for harm survives.

* RedemptionEarnsLife: In the remake, the one child that refuses to use his powers for harm survives.

* [=~But I Can't Be Pregnant!~=]: 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.