Village of the Damned

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Shaman Athletic T I enjoyed the wild weirdness, the tension building and the cast. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/02/24 Full Review g j The 90's was an awkward decade for horror cinema, but this is one of the stand-outs. Manages to be quite iconic and quintessential for this time, despite its flaws. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/17/24 Full Review Blu B Completely pointless remake that doesn't improve on anything the original didn't do way better. Gone is all the underlying commentary, sharp script, and disturbing atmosphere for cheap slasher kills and a borderline action movie at times that add nothing to the plot. The acting is terrible. Besides Reeve who has some good moments (problem is most of the time he isn't the main focus and gets lost in the shuffling door of characters) everyone else blends in, has no point, or is bizarre or poorly acted. Alley is terrible in this and feels like she's just saying lines. The janitor is just bizarre, the kids aren't good villians and it isn't as creepy without having a adult dubbing the lines like the original. The acting overall is just a mess. The music really gets annoying and is arguably the most shocking thing for how bad it is because it's a Carpenter film. It sounds like a watered down version of all his previous soundtracks mixed with boring generic numbers and other tracks that don't blend in at all especially the end. The cinematography isn't good either filled with pointless kills that add nothing to the plot and bizarre scenes on top of showing the main plot points in the original but don't do any of them better. The editing is bad and the pacing isn't good. Again in the middle it just feels like stuff happens and it jumps around terribly between all the people in the town and is not scary at all mainly because the mystery around whether the kids are good or evil or the suspense is completely gone because this spells right out from the start the kids are evil. So every evil deed it shows them doing never adds anything and is just bizarre and a lot of the kills come off as unintentionally funny for how over the top ridiculous they are. The action fight at the end is so out of place as well and pointless. Hamill's character could be completely cut and nothing would be lost. The first one was very plot driven and filled with sharp dialouge which made up for the lack of in depth character development on top of good acting. This has none of that and goes long time frames without dialouge and really meanders a lot of times. Also, the one new idea that was interesting with David devloping emotions was introduced but because it's so interested in showing brainless action and slasher kills it forgets about him and never develops the one new idea that is interesting. Skip this. What the heck happened here...easily one one of Carpenter's worst and a huge misfire. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/08/23 Full Review Vidar S In 1960 the plot was probably interesting. In 1995 (and today) it's just brainless and silly. There isn't really anything more to the plot, other than a little bit more violence. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/08/23 Full Review Antonio B I've always loved this movie growing up. I think with new writing & modern technology it could be a major success in todays time. Especially in the era of reboots! This film deserves a reboot in my eyes . Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/31/23 Full Review damian l It was okay for a remake Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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