Village Of The Damned

And we are continuing our look at the films of John Carpenter.

We're in the late phase now with Village of the Damned, 1995, and Vampires, 1998.

So I think last time I said, when we were talking about In the Mouth of Madness and, uh, and, um, Prince of Darkness, that every time we talk Carpenter I have a new favorite Carpenter movie.

I can't say that this time.

Yeah.

I think, I think the cast, let's...

Talking about actors, I think the cast is much better in Village of the Damned.

There- there's decent actors and actresses in that, and I think that's not really the case [laughs] for Vampires, right? Our, our, our, our...

Oh, no.

Village of the Damned was the last one.

It's the one before Village of the Damned.

And so it was probably like three or four years ago was the last time I watched it.

And I remember watching it.

Yeah, he seems

on the come up.

Yeah, I just watched Village of the Damned.

Yeah.

Vampires, The Ward, Memoirs of a Visible Man, Village of the Damned, Ghosts of Mars.

I like all the films, believe it or not.

But there is a slight drop off there.

Just fucking hate her.

But it's like Children of the Corn, Village of the Damned.

It's like a society ran by children.

[laughs] There's, like, no reason for it out here in the dead cold of Maine, 'cause it, it was dri- that scene, yeah, thin ice, man.

... like, uh, Dun- Dunitch, Dunwich horror like, uh, um, H.P. Lovecraft.

I was looking it up and it was more influenced by the Midwich Cuckoos, which is The Village of the Damned story.

But then what, something that I found, uh, very funny is that the, uh, the Midwich Elementary, [laughs] and I don't know if you've s- heard this, apparently the Midwich, and maybe this was more in the video games than in the movie, but the, the Midwich Elementary School was like down to like how, how it's organized, modeled on the school from Kindergarten Cop.

[laughs]

Like I said, I never thought it was a coincidence that after that, his films are objectively garbage.

I mean, you might have a soft spot for the remake of Village of the Damned.

Escape from L.A. is irredeemable.

The vampires one isn't bad.

So, like, genetic memories.

It's kind of like he's experiencing whatever the alien children are in Village of the Damned.

the hallucinations become physical the movie's major turning point is that eddie actually transforms into a primitive ape-like human he escapes he attacks security guards he reaches a zoo he kills and eats a sheep before returning to his usual body and it's at this point the film feels like a creature feature of sorts

yeah it kind of well the zoo part reminds me of some favorites like in american world in london or cat people and i do really like both versions of cat people