About the film
- Directed by
- Anton Leader
- Released
- January 10, 1964
- Certification
- NR
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen
More credits
- Language
- English, Russian
- Origin
- GB
- Studios
- Lawrence P. Bachmann Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
- Belongs to
- The Damned Collection
- Written by
- John Briley, John Wyndham
- Produced by
- Lawrence P. Bachmann
- Cinematography
- Davis Boulton
- Music
- Ron Goodwin
- Also starring
- Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark, Martin Miller, Harold Goldblatt, Patrick White
- Box office
- $2,000,000
You know the children with the glowing eyes. Platinum blond, moving as one, staring down grown men until they turn their weapons on themselves.
Four years after Village of the Damned (1960), the same British studio made an arguably superior sequel. CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964) brings six impossibly gifted children to London, each from a different nation, to be studied. Every government that sent one soon wants its child back, to be used as a weapon.
When the children realize what the adults intend, they flee and barricade themselves in a bombed-out London church, while soldiers and scientists gather in the street outside.
Its screenwriter said he meant Children of the Damned as a moral fable about the Cold War, about how easily it could turn hot. His name was John Briley, and twenty years later he won the Academy Award for writing Gandhi.
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I do not think I have heard the children of the damn refer to a superior to village of the Damned previously. There was another film that was not a direct sequel but was intended I think to reflect in some ways the publicity for most films called the Damned or also called these are the Damned. This last film was from Hammond studios and included Oliver Reed among the supporting players
Gary Mark Bernstein Set on the Dorset coast in and around Weymouth UK.
A remarkable film with a great cast. Terrific storytelling, too. That opening mystery is so compelling!
I was a kid but I vividly remember the newspaper ads for the movie showing the kids with glowing eyes. I begged my parents to take me to see this film but they refused, which was probably a good call!
Clive Powell appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) as Young David Zellaby and in Children of the Damned (1964) as Paul!