if you are keen on the idea of having your own children
i would say proceed with caution when it comes to village of the damned
i'm actually a little bit torn about how i feel with this film and that's one of
the reasons why i want to discuss this today
because on the one hand the premise is incredible and i thought it sounded
absolutely fantastic and on the other hand i
i was a little bit disappointed with it now i will say that this is the 1995
remake there was a specific reason why i watched that
i haven't seen the 60s version of this i'm not sure how it
compares from the description it sounds quite similar
but if you have seen both please do let me know
if the originals better or if they're completely different
but today i'm just talking about the potential remake
and the reason that i wanted to watch this initially is because
kirstie ali is in this and she's beautiful in this she's absolutely
fantastic and also it was directed by john carpenter which
for me is is a win and i thought you know this is
a great combination and the plot sounded amazing
so after their after something happens one night all of the women
in this little village become pregnant and obviously they all kind of have
these babies on the same day very quickly this happens within the first
kind of 10 maybe 20 minutes of the film and the rest of the film is about
watching these children grow up kirstie alley plays a doctor who is
investigating why this happened because of course
nobody knows how this could ever possibly have happened
and she's also doing some studies with some of the babies that unfortunately
or fortunately depending on how you look at the film but some of the babies that
did not um make it to try and work out how what
happened and it quickly becomes apparent that
these children are well some of these children are
quite evil and they start to control their parents
and make them do pretty pretty nasty things i won't spoil it by
saying what but you know they make their
parents hurt themselves and things and that is a promise whether i should
admit this or not that sounded incredible demon children who
controlled the adults fantastic unfortunately i didn't think the
execution was anything remarkable much to my own surprise i thought the
first third of the film or however long it is when they're
before the kids are born i thought that was incredible
once the children grow up because the children become
i don't know maybe seven eight years old by the end of the film
um we kind of see them very quickly grow up into children who can talk and walk
and you know be strong enough to control the
parents i thought it was it just lost a lot of
its interest once the children became of an age where they could
control because i thought that was executed very poorly
i didn't think that was enough control i thought a lot of the cro control
was just very dull they didn't do very much i wanted them to do
more with the adults i wanted them to really
hurt them not because i'm sadistic or evil or horrible
well arguably but because it would be fantastic entertainment and it's like
how far can you push this how far can you go with these children and what can
you make them do in their children can you really be mad
at them but it turns out uh yeah they just i
feel like they just didn't really explore that as much as they could have
done and yes part of the film was the children
being evil part of the film was trying to work out
who they were how they got there and you know what they're going to do with
them and and that was interesting it wasn't particularly climactic
when they worked it out or when the children started to give tidbits of
information it wasn't really thrilling and yet when i finished watching the
film i thought hmm wasn't so bad but when i was watching it
certainly as i said from around the first
i'll say the second half it just wasn't that exciting but on hindsight it was
all right so i'm left feeling quite confused without a doubt
it did not live up to my expectations kirstie ali completely did live up to my
expectations because i very much have been in love with her
since i was four years old but the rest of the film just wasn't
great visually it was interesting the special effects and things were
pretty cool especially given the time um but other than that it was just meh so
would i recommend you watch it
yeah sure watch it just so we can discuss it so we can see
if i'm just missing something but i certainly am very interested to go back
and watch the original and see how it compares if you've seen
either this village of the damned or the previous
let me know if you haven't seen it and you have the chance
go for it it's it's all right