Tockinit not horrible nor great

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

classicsoncall Between 1960's "Village of the Damned" and this one, I'd say take your pick. Both are effective and creepy sci-fi/horror flicks, this one primarily so for the virtually silent but menacing children who seem to have no parentage on the father side, and exhibit a super-normal intelligence that defies scientific investigation. The young kid Paul (Clive Powell) was particularly effective as the lead youngster, but I had to laugh during the opening scene when he put together the puzzle cube - what was the point of using a stopwatch to time the effort? The other 'normal' kids didn't even have a half dozen pieces completed yet.What the film should convince one of is that film makers don't need to get elaborate with fancy special effects or mindless physical horror when so much more can be done with a mysterious story line and the power of suggestion. Having some of your principal characters go catatonic from time to time helps too, it creates tension and anxiety the way peeking around a dark corner does when you suspect a demon on the other side. Pretty effective.It's too bad we didn't get a firmer idea of what the kids with the million year advanced brain capability were really up to. The finale made an oxymoron of the term military intelligence, can you imagine a battlefield confrontation between super powers determined by the dropping of a screwdriver?

gavin6942 Scientists discover that there are six children who each have an enormous intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but they each escape their embassy and gather in a church.While this sequel will never have the sort of cult following the original has gained, it is not bad in its own right. What it does is create a story that spans nations, making a not so subtle argument about the advantages of working together rather than being at odds with one another. Coming out in 1964, this was no doubt a jab at the Cold War.There is also the theme of self-preservation. One character remarks that if the children are allowed to grow up and have children of their own, they would some day inherit the earth. This would be an affront to humanity. Or at least humanity as we know it... evolution, which may be great on the whole, looks terrifying to those who are left behind.

MartinHafer Many of you out there can relate. When I was a kid, like any other kid, I adored Christmas. However, like most kids, there were times when I got presents that looked wonderful--until I opened them. Getting underwear or socks were such "presents". Well, CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED is like a pack of underwear at Christmas. It looks great, you really anticipate it and when it arrives you are thinking "is this all that there is?!?". That's because the first film, VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED, was an amazingly good movie--one of the best of the 1960s. Yet, this eagerly anticipated sequel is a horrible, horrible film--rotten in just about every possible way. The only other original film and sequel that may THAT much different might be WILLARD (a fine film) and BEN (a sequel so saccharine that I feel nauseous just thinking about it).So why is CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED so darn bad? Well, in the original, these "children" were alien creations with super-advanced brains and telepathic powers they used for evil. They viewed outsiders the same way we might view ants! Yet in the sequel, these children are creepy looking and gifted BUT they just want to be left alone and be given respect!!!!! What happened to all the terror?! In VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED, the kids talked in a creepy monotone manner as one voice AND they used their powers to force people to drive into walls or kill themselves. Here, they just whine about wanting understanding!!! So, a sequel to a horror movie has become, instead, like a live action version of the comic strip "Wee Pals"!!! Ugghh!! Now that is scary!! The production values are okay--so I am giving it two stars. This is generous, as the plot is just horrid--an abomination and a complete waste of time.

JoeKarlosi CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1963)Follow-up to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) is not quite up to the original, but this sequel takes things a step further as more potentially dangerous, advanced alien children cause concerns to mankind. What's interesting this time is the switch to seeing children of different countries now possessed (India, Russia, America...). There's more of a serious political undertone to this story, which works in its favor. **1/2 out of ****