- archive (b&w): https://archive.org/details/village-of-the-damned
- archive (colorized): https://archive.org/details/village-of-the-damned-colorized-1960-720p_202601
- it’s usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at the watch party time
- for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15282
In the British village of Midwich, the villagers fall unconscious, as do the animals and other people entering Midwich. … After approximately four hours, the villagers regain consciousness, and all are apparently unaffected by the time-out. Two months later, all Midwich women and girls of child-bearing age are discovered to be pregnant.
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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: “The solution of this excellent adaptation from John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos can be recommended for its ruthless ingenuity, the story is original as these things go and has grip, the village background is pleasing and Wolf Rilla’s direction (except for some irksome glimpses of George Sanders’ marital bliss) both sharp and discreet. Altogether, in fact, with chillingly effective performances from the children to add to the tension, this is probably the neatest science fiction film yet to have come out of a British studio."[31]
The 18 June 1960 edition of The Guardian[32] praised the story as “most ingenious” and Rilla as applying “the right laconic touch.” …
While not willing to call it a horror classic, Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, “as a quietly civilized exercise in the fear and power of the unknown this picture is one of the trimmest, most original and serenely unnerving little chillers in a long time."[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_the_Damned_(1960_film)
Village of the Damned (1960) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, November 1 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
WARNING: the watch party is not for the 1995 remake! (but that will be watched in the "after-party" that follows on miru.miyaku.media!)