the midwich cuckoos village of the damned

Asshole Victim: The janitor is an alcoholic Child Hater who drinks on duty and is heavily implied to abuse the schoolchildren.This being a John Carpenter film, all but two of them are dead by the end. Anyone Can Die: The film has many characters.Female child Mara takes the role of the ringleader instead. He eventually pulls a Heel–Face Turn to save his mother, avoiding the same fate with the others like in the original. Adaptational Heroism: David is born without a counterpart, and thus is left vulnerable to emoting with other humans and gaining empathy.The children, howewer, are devoid of anything similar to humanity and empathy.

Later, it becomes apparent that all the women have mysteriously become pregnant during that time, which leads them to give birth to children who have immense psychic powers. In the village of Midwich, everyone suddenly loses their consciousness for a day as they were preparing for a county fair. The movie is a Bloodier and Gorier remake of Village of the Damned (1960). The clutch that have been fathered by Aliens promise to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.The 1995 adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos by John Carpenter, starring Christopher Reeve, Mark Hamill, Linda Kozlowski, Kirstie Alley, and Peter Jason.

As they start to grow at enormous speed, it becomes clear that they all have telepathic abilities. Nine months pass and the pregnancies run to their natural term, producing 61 'Children' – all with blonde hair, pale skin and golden eyes. It's some weeks before the realisation grows that all the women in the village of child-bearing age are mysteriously impregnated. In that time, aerial reconnaissance and photographs reveal not only that the affected area is a hemisphere, but also that, at the centre of it, a strange shape can be seen.īut as suddenly as the village was affected, everything returns – apparently – to normal. The rather sleepy village of Midwich finds itself becoming even sleepier when one night in September all those in it – and nearby, within a precise circular boundary – fall suddenly into a state of unconciousness that lasts for over 24 hours. The mysterious powers of the alien children start to become destructive.Ĭuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests. There are moral and security issues when all the women of child-bearing age in the village of Midwich simultaneously become pregnant by an alien force.

The mystery deepens when all the residents of the rural village of Midwich suddenly fall into a state of unconsciousness.Ĭolonel Bernard Westcott. Music by Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop BBC World Service, first broadcast betwen 9 and 23 December 1982

The midwich cuckoos village of the damned