Village of the damned. 1995.
In the small town of Midwhich, the inhabitants suffer a blackout, when they awake everyone seems to got over it, 10 women find out they are pregnant and get a lot of attention from a government medical research doctor.
John Carpenter's vision remake of the 1960s film seems a bit more violent while the original had a dark eerie tone where this is straight horror. The children seem to have darker agenda mixed with suspense that makes the film work with great acting. Christopher Reeve plays the town doctor and father of Mara who seems to be the leader of the kids. Kirstie Alley plays the government's chain smoking doctor who seems to know more than she is letting on. Mark Hamill plays the town's priest who looks rugged and nervous and Linda Kozlowski as the school teacher and mother of lone child.
Some parts of the film can be long, dragging and to the point of being pointless but does pick up again to being suspenseful with tense moments and people turning on each other with a great background score by Carpenter and great cinematography.
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