Village of the Damned

What was the one where the whole village fell down, and then they woke up pregnant?

Um, Village of the Damned.

That was Village of the Damned, okay.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the solution to the problem isn't very realistic.

And actually, you mentioned Village of the Damned.

You have to love a movie with end credits that say dedicated to Hammer, Argento, Romero, Dante, Landis, Spielberg, Wells, Carpenter, Mom and Dad, and many more.

The original script had the children from Village of the Damned, Jason Voorhees, and the thing in the wax museum.

If this was made in Italy, they probably would have been in this movie.

For what it's worth, Jason's kind of in this as Kane Hodder as Frankenstein's monster.

It's just really, it's a cracking movie.

Village of the Damned, the George Sanders version of it, the Midwich Cuckoos.

Oh, I've not seen that for years.

Cracking movie.

I love that.

Which is, you know, I mean, obviously there was like the, uh, was it The Damned or The Village of the Damned?

Okay, yeah.

You know, those ones with the kids-

Children of the Corn and fucking, yeah, all of that

... with the glowing eyes.

Well, I'll say like before, before The Omen, there was that one, isn't it called The Village of the Damned with the kid with the glowing eyes?

I think so, yeah.

And her, uh, you know, let- let's just call him her, her boyfriend, uh, Ronnie, in this one is played by Martin Stevens, and, uh, he's an interesting guy.

He was, you know, a child actor, and he was in a couple of big, heavy hitters: Village of the Damned and The Innocents, two fantastic films.

I've talked about Village of the Damned, not The Innocents quite yet, but, uh, it is, it is on the, uh, it is in the books to be talked about at some point.

So, you know, pretty, pretty big movies there for him, right?

Oh, yeah, and The Innocents is one of my absolute favorites.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, 'cause he was one of those really good kid actors.

Def- definitely creepy in Village of the Damned, you know, as the-

What

do you got, Brian? So for my first one, I'm going with Village of the Damned.

Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, the black and white original from way back when.

I believe.

Christopher Reeve.

Yeah, so in Village of the Damned.

No,

Basically scared a bunch of Americans who were on holiday.

They turned up and it was like a, they were like the Village of the Damned kind of thing.

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By the late 50s, she was appearing in lots of horror films, some for Hammer, some not.

Films include The Camp on Blood Island, Village of the Damned, The Gorgon, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Rasputin, The Mad Monk, Quatermass, and The Pit.

She quickly became known as the Queen of Hammer.

She considered the scene in which she is staked to be among her best work.