Village of the Damned

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Village of the Damned is a 1960 British science fiction horror film about a mysterious village where women simultaneously give birth to eerie, super-intelligent children with psychic powers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British film
film
science fiction horror film
basedOn The Midwich Cuckoos
basedOnAuthor John Wyndham
castMember Barbara Shelley
George Sanders
Laurence Naismith
Martin Stephens
Michael Gwynn
cinematographyBy Geoffrey Faithfull
colorProcess black-and-white
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Wolf Rilla
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
distributorRegion United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
editedBy James Needs
featuresCharacterType psychic children
super-intelligent children
filmingLocation MGM British Studios, Borehamwood
followedBy Children of the Damned
genre horror
science fiction
hasRemake Village of the Damned self-linksurface differs
surface form: Village of the Damned (1995 film)
hasTheme alien influence
collective consciousness
fear of the unknown
telepathy
mainCharacter Alan Bernard
Anthea Zellaby
Professor Gordon Zellaby
musicBy Ron Goodwin
narrativeLocationType rural village
notableFor depiction of emotionless, blond-haired psychic children with glowing eyes
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A mysterious event causes all inhabitants of an English village to fall unconscious, after which all women of childbearing age become pregnant and give birth to eerily similar, super-intelligent children with psychic powers.
producer Ronald Kinnoch
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
surface form: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
publicationTypeOfSource novel
releaseDate 1960-06-16
releaseYear 1960
runtimeMinutes 77
screenwriter Ronald Kinnoch
Stirling Silliphant
Wolf Rilla
setIn England
Midwich
timePeriodOfStory contemporary to 1960s

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George Sanders notableWork Village of the Damned
John Carpenter films hasWork Village of the Damned
this entity surface form: Village of the Damned (1995 film)
Christopher Reeve notableWork Village of the Damned
Village of the Damned hasRemake Village of the Damned self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Village of the Damned (1995 film)
Laurence Naismith notableWork Village of the Damned
Larry Franco notableWork Village of the Damned
this entity surface form: Village of the Damned (1995 film)