Village of the Damned (1995 film)
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| John Carpenter's Village of the Damned |
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 Village of the Damned movie poster. |
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| Directed by | John Carpenter |
| Produced by | Larry J. Franco |
| Written by | Novel: John Wyndham Screenplay: David Himmelstein |
| Starring | Christopher Reeve Kirstie Alley Thomas Dekker Mark Hamill |
| Music by | John Carpenter Dave Davies |
| Cinematography | Gary B. Kibbe |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures (1995) (USA) (theatrical) |
| Release date(s) | April 28, 1995 |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22,000,000 (estimated) |
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John Carpenter's Village of the Damned was an English language 1995 science fiction–horror film directed by John Carpenter.
It was a remake of a 1960 film of the same name, both ultimately based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. It starred Christopher Reeve (in what would be his last leading role in a feature film before the horse riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his life), Kirstie Alley and Mark Hamill. This movie stood out from the original due to its incorporation of graphic violence, with depictions of such things as a man falling asleep on a barbeque grill and a woman eviscerating herself.
[edit] Plot
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are neither human nor humane. Different from the earlier adaptation, one of the children loses his twin at birth, and subsequently looks the same as the rest, but does have human compassion, and as a result does not fit in well with them or humans.
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| John Wyndham |
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| Bibliography |
| Novels: |
| Foul Play Suspected · The Secret People · Stowaway To Mars · The Day of the Triffids · The Kraken Wakes · The Chrysalids · The Midwich Cuckoos · The Outward Urge · Trouble with Lichen · Chocky · Web |
| Collections: |
| Jizzle · The Seeds of Time · Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter · Consider Her Ways and Others · The Infinite Moment · Sleepers of Mars · The Best of John Wyndham · Wanderers of Time · Exiles on Asperus · No Place like Earth |
| Filmography |
| Feature films: The Day of the Triffids (1962 film) · Village of the Damned (1960 film) · Village of the Damned (1995 film) |
| Radio |
| Radio adaptations: The Day of the Triffids (radio) · The Chrysalids (radio) |
| Television |
| TV adaptations: The Day of the Triffids (TV series) · Chocky (TV series) · Random Quest |
| The Films of John Carpenter |
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| Feature films |
| Dark Star | Assault on Precinct 13 | Halloween | The Fog | Escape from New York | The Thing | Christine | Starman | Big Trouble in Little China | Prince of Darkness | They Live | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | In the Mouth of Madness | Village of the Damned | Escape from L.A. | Vampires | Ghosts of Mars | Psychopath |
| Made for television |
| Someone's Watching Me | Elvis | Body Bags | John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns | John Carpenter's Pro-Life |
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