History Film / TheseAreTheDamned

While on a boating holiday in [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry Dorset]], American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) tries to pick up local girl Joan (Shirley Anne Field), only to get robbed and beaten up by her brother King (Creator/OliverReed) and his gang of Teddy boys. He gets comforted by Swedish {{sculptor|s}} Freya Neilson (Creator/VivecaLindfors) and her lover Bernard (Alexander Knox), a scientist who is involved in a top secret project involving nine children kept in isolation in an underground facility on a well-guarded military base. Later Joan comes to Simon for help in escaping her overly-controlling brother. While fleeing from King, Simon and Joan enter the base and then inadvertently stumble into the facility, endangering all their lives.

* SinisterSwitchblade: Joan is introduced with a switchblade tucked into the front of her pants when she picks up Simon, but when one is actually produced by a Teddy boy, it's just so Sid can lend Freya his knife.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: William plots the blind spots on the cameras, but forgets that the man he's trying to smuggle past them is taller than he is.

While on a boating holiday in [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry Dorset]], American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) tries to pick up local girl Joan (Shirley Anne Field), only to get robbed and beaten up by her brother King (Creator/OliverReed) and his gang of Teddy boys. He gets comforted by Swedish sculptor Freya Neilson (Creator/VivecaLindfors) and her lover Bernard (Alexander Knox), a scientist who is involved in a top secret project involving nine children kept in isolation in an underground facility on a well-guarded military base. Later Joan comes to Simon for help in escaping her overly-controlling brother. While fleeing from King, Simon and Joan enter the base and then inadvertently stumble into the facility, endangering all their lives.

* CagedBirdMetaphor: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Freya gives Bernard a bird sculpture as a gift. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Bernard regrets that the children now know they are prisoners and it will affect them accordingly]].

''These Are the Damned'' (UK title: ''The Damned'') is a 1963 Film/{{Hammer|Horror}} SciFiHorror film directed by Joseph Losey, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] H.L. Lawrence's 1960 novel ''The Children of Light''.

While on a boating holiday in [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry Dorset]], American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) tries to pick up local girl Joan (Shirley Anne Field), only to get robbed and beaten up by her brother King (Creator/OliverReed) and his gang of Teddy boys. He gets comforted by Swedish sculptor Freya Neilson (Viveca Lindfors) and her lover Bernard (Alexander Knox), a scientist who is involved in a top secret project involving nine children kept in isolation in an underground facility on a well-guarded military base. Later Joan comes to Simon for help in escaping her overly-controlling brother. While fleeing from King, Simon and Joan enter the base and then inadvertently stumble into the facility, endangering all their lives.

* ThermalDissonance: When Victoria takes Joan by the hand, Joan exclaims that her hand is "cold as ice", while Victoria exclaims, "They're warm!" Joan notes that Victoria's hand [[UncannyValley doesn't get any warmer even when she's holding it]].

* BikerBabe: Though only for a single scene where Joan outraces the rest of the gang so she can get to Simon's boat. After she dismounts, she removes her boots and puts on her heels, which she's hung around her neck on a length of string.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The children don't have the MonochromaticEyes shown on the poster, and are hardly a "lurking unseen evil!", [[spoiler:though their radiation certainly is]]. Given the title, the poster may have been encouraging confusion with ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned.''

* CoversAlwaysLie: The children don't have the MonochromaticEyes shown on the poster, and are hardly a "lurking unseen evil!", [[spoiler:though their radiation certainly is]]. Given the title, the poster may have been encouraging confusion with Film/VillageOfTheDamned.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The children don't have the MonochromaticEyes shown on the poster, and are hardly a "lurking unseen evil!", [[spoiler:though their radiation certainly is]].

* BikerBabe: Though only for a single scene where Joan outraces the rest of the gang so she can get to Simon's boat. After she dismounts, she removes her boots and puts on her heels which she's hung around her neck on a length of string.

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: The children warn about the 'eyes' which are everywhere, except in their hideout. Turns out that Bernard knows about the hideout, but refuses to put a camera there because it's better for their mental health that the children have a place all to themselves. When Bernard orders the children to hand over the intruders, they rebel by [[DestroyTheSecurityCamera smashing or obscuring all the cameras]].

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: The children warn about the 'eyes' which are everywhere, except in their hideout. Turns out that Bernard knows about the hideout, but refuses to put a camera there because it's better for their mental health that the children have a place to themselves. When Bernard orders the children to hand over the intruders, they rebel by [[DestroyTheSecurityCamera smashing or obscuring all the cameras]].

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: The children warn about the 'eyes' which are everywhere, except in their hideout. Turns out Bernard knows about the hideout, but refuses to put a camera there because it's better for their mental health that the children have a place to themselves. When Bernard orders the children to hand over the intruders, they rebel by [[DestroyTheSecurityCamera smashing or obscuring all the cameras]].