Day 2Reflections on: Village of the Damned (1995)This might be the last good thing made by John Carp
Day 2Reflections on: Village of the Damned (1995)This might be the last good thing made by John Carpenter.I really liked the original Village of the Damned (1960) but this one is so unlike it that it was enjoyable in different ways. The effects are about as good an episode of The X Files. Even though it’s from 1995 it feels more like a late 70′s horror movie - in a good way!Kirstie Alley plays an epidemiologist who quotes Sherlock Holmes and smokes constantly - both in clinics and around dozens of pregnant women.Stars Superman (Christopher Reeve), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and some cows.I think Mark Hamill had fun playing a melodramatic priest. His first line in the movie is “We need finger paints!”This falls under the genre of pregnancy horror movies such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968) It’s Alive (1974), and The Brood (1979). It was nice to see a scene featuring a very straight forward discussion about abortion :)This has lots of elements of other good John Carpenter films: hokey premise yet shot in beautiful widescreen cinematography, set in a coastal California town, spooky synth soundtrack, and pumpkins.One of the white-haired children looks like Jay Leno. If a bunch of weird kids want to live in a barn maybe you shouldn’t interfere?I watched this while wearing a fleece. This feels important to note. -- source link
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