Village of the Damned Movie Review

What a yawner! The quiet town of Midwich, California, has been enveloped by a strange force that impregnates the local women. The albino children born of this incident have disturbing telepathic powers that they display through their bright orange and red eyes – supposedly precipitating a plot to take control. The characters have no personalities, the dialogue is sloppy and stilted, the plot comes to a slapdash conclusion, and the pedestrian special effects appear to have been tailored for the small screen. Pale remake of the 1960 British horror classic, which was based on John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos, fails to capture the eeriness of its predecessor. The children's glowing eyes make them look about as threatening as Nintendo addicts.

1995 (R) 98m/C Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Hamill, Meredith Salenger, Michael Pare, Peter Jason, Constance Forslund; D: John Carpenter; W: John Carpenter, David Himmelstein; C: Gary B. Kibbe; M: John Carpenter, Dave Davies. VHS, LV MCA