Children of the Damned (1964)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Convinced there are more children out in the world, a UN study finds the other remaining children and brings them to a secure church in London for study, only for the continued misuse of their powers to force the world to rid themselves of the children.This one turned out to be quite enjoyable if only slightly flawed overall here. What really stands out here is the film's rather enjoyable and exciting action scenes that are wisely kept to a few needed spurts here rather than placed throughout the film as a whole. The race around downtown London and on through the different back-alleys and side-streets looking for the children while she's in turn followed by the agents that leads into their church hideout makes for a fine time, as does the different attempts to barnstorm the church and try to appeal to them, which is quite a fine series of actions here with the attempts broken up by having the children forcibly bringing the intruders to harm themselves, stopping them with the implementation of a loud, boisterous weapon and finally by talking in vague threats about what's going to happen to intruders in the future. The finale attempt to see what to do with them makes for quite a fun time here with this one really getting the action out here in regards to the military utilizing their weaponry here in grand order and launching a full-scale attack against them in a flurry of explosions, shelling and gunfire that culminates in the deadly bombing that brings the church down in quite a spectacular manner here for a thrilling finale and one of the films' best scenes overall. This, though, is really all that really works here as this one does have a few small flaws with it. Much like the original, this one seems quite uncomfortable with blatantly exclaiming how the children came about, as this one provides no explanation whatsoever for what happened to bring these children along, why those events were completely ignored after what happened previously since this one is decidedly concerned with continuity as this manages to take place in that same universe quite distinctly, so being able to skirt around the issue as clumsily as done so here is a big distraction. As well, the big issue of how the different nationalities are represented here seems to contradict the first one where whole villages were targeted so this one-from-around- the-world makes no sense. Likewise, the finale here with the continuous arguing about the children's importance in helping the nations of the world destroy each other is never really tied into this one or why it should mean anything other than being completely ignored by everyone which in turn forces the children into action every time out, and to continually force the issue each encounter makes them simply asking for their consequences more than anything else. This here is really the main thing hold this one down as it is.Today's Rating/PG: Violence and violent acts against children.

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.

The Village of the Damned was a real classic. So this in-name-only sequel has a lot to live up to and, not surprisingly, it fails. How does it fail? For starters, the children are no longer menacing like they were in the first film. This time they "just want to be understood" or whatever. This film is not a sinister, slightly subversive sci-fi horror film like the first. It's more of a drama with some touches of the original's plot elements to spice it up.Sequels that change gears do not necessarily have to suck. Look at Curse of the Cat People, a brilliant follow-up to Cat People but a completely different kind of film. Unfortunately there's nothing significantly interesting going on here to elevate it above the middle of the pack. It's watchable but not great. See it with extremely low expectations.

Children of the Damned may be a sequel to 'Village', but it really is a very different story all together. In COTD, the children are not evil little alien minions like the ones in 'Village'. It is very hard to tell if the children are the bad guys in the movie. They don't kill humans in this one unless they are at risk of being attacked by those same humans.Like the original, the kids are very intelligent and keep to themselves. The children in COTD lack in the spooky department though. They were much more effective in Village of the Damned with their blond hair, the way they spoke, and even their movements. Of course doctors want to find out what these kids are. They eventually discover that they are human. They test the cells of one of the boys they kill. It is human, but a much more advanced one. The cells are advanced by a million years.Children of the Damned lacks at building up the characters. In Village, there were root-able characters but in this one it's all so straight forward. The "human" characters are actually the bad guys in COTD, so we never really relate to them or want them to succeed over the children. I also thought this one dragged on a little much compared to Village of the Damned. It's a decent sequel, but a pretty average watch. It failed to keep my attention throughout.5/10