Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned (1995) at 6:00PM Eastern US Time

Just one movie tonight as I have become a busy busy bee!  Returning to John Carpenter land with Village of the Damned (1995)!  We will will start P R O M P T L Y at 6:00PM Eastern US time.

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Village of the Damned (1995)

A story about a bunch of strange children being born in a village and then doing terrible things to everyone with their supernatural powers.  “It is based on the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The 1995 version is set in Northern California, whereas the book and original film are both set in England. The 1995 film was marketed with the tagline, "Beware the Children".

The film received negative reviews from critics and failed at the box office upon release. This was Reeve's last theatrically released film before he was paralyzed in an equestrian accident in May 1995.”

Content Warnings for Village of the Damned (1995)*

Violence and gore: Moderate

Lots of injuries, burning, disfigurement, but somehow IMDB still calls it “moderate” so it must not be that bad right?

Sexual violence: Mild

The most nonconsensuality of it is that the premise is a bunch of women wake up and find that they are mysteriously pregnant, so, about as violent as the biblical story about Jesus’s conception