Here they are no longer sinisterly malevolent, but merely misunderstood. Even the location has changed – there is no longer any titular ‘village’, the setting has become urban London.Įven more so, the depiction of the children has changed. The children are not even all blonde anymore, although their eyes do glow (an effect that was later optically added to some prints of Village of the Damned). Here though there is no mysterious zone that causes everybody inside goes to sleep and all the women to wake up pregnant, and rather than being alien the children are just a genetic mutation (and are later revealed as an advanced human evolutionary form). In both films there is the central theme of a mentally advanced gestalt of children who become a threat to humanity. In fact, it is more a case of two films conducting variations on a similar theme and in actuality the two are quite different films. Well at least that was the way the film was billed. Children of the Damned is a sequel to Village of the Damned (1960).
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