A chilling story of passive alien invasion and paranoia.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 18, 2023

Written and handled with a considerable amount of delicacy, it may possibly appeal more to the adults than the adolescents, and the further you have moved away from the fantasy the more you will understand its chill.

| Sep 28, 2022

Fantasy is tricky material to handle, on the screen even more so than in print, and Village of the Damned... is to be congratulated on making a creditable shot at a difficult job.

| Sep 28, 2022

The thoughtful, serio-comic book has become a much watered-down, rather mild horror film, as thick with clichés as the Midwich hedges with sukebind.

| Sep 28, 2022

[Provides] a good deal of harmless excitement before the invention finally runs down... Here the fantasy always seems more credible than the reality, with the result that we are more amused than chilled.

| Sep 28, 2022

The story is most ingenious and is told by Wolf Rilla with just the right laconic touch.

| Sep 28, 2022

Behind this rather silly title lies one of the period's truly exciting screen tales, chillingly imagined and icily visualized in direction and performance.

| Sep 28, 2022

A gripping, well-acted, cleverly contrived, science-fiction drama from Britain.

| Sep 28, 2022

Yes, despite its lackluster title, Village of the Damned is a clammy little masterpiece. Don't miss this one.

| Sep 28, 2022

The picture is an excellent chiller-thriller, and the fact that the dialogue is serious enough so the story sounds as if it could happen in reality makes Village of the Damned one of the more effective melodramas in the category of science-fiction.

| Sep 28, 2022

Consistent underplay highlights sinister nuances, with deft direction and timing adding tension to an appalling conjecture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2022

As a Wyndham fan, I found the cinema version less effective than the book, which is not too unusual, in the case of any skillfully written science-fiction tome transferred into pictures. But enough of the horror comes through to satisfy ardent fans.

| Sep 28, 2022

The plot's too ingenious to give away -- we'll just say it gets creepier and creepier as it goes along its way.

| Sep 28, 2022

An atmospheric and intelligent watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2021

...raw nightmare fuel in its believable depiction of normality collapsing...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Village of the Damned benefits from its sporadic emphasis on the creepy exploits of those 12 kids...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2021

The only thing I believed in throughout the film was their serene and quite unbelievable aloofness; and the brilliance suggested, not in any wise-guy remarks, but in their faces and bones and distinction.

| Aug 21, 2018

With chillingly effective performances from the children to add to the tension, this is probably the neatest science fiction film yet to have come out of a British studio.

| Sep 15, 2015

Compelling, creepy and often unbearably tense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2013

Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight.

| Oct 21, 2010