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The tale begins as every inhabitant of the village of Midwich, even the animals, suddenly falls unconscious, and anyone entering the village likewise falls unconscious. The military establishes a cordon around the village, plus a five-mile exclusion zone for aircraft after the pilot of a plane passing overhead falls unconscious, causing the plane to crash. Nobody can enter the village to find the cause - but when everyone in Midwich wakes again, apparently unaffected by what is soon dubbed a "time out," the danger appears to have passed.

''Village of the Damned'' was followed by a sequel, ''Children of the Damned'', in 1963, and a remake in 1995, directed by [[John Carpenter]] and starring Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley.

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* [[Bizarre Baby Boom]]: Possibly the first visual media example.

* [[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]: Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to this incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.

* [[Creepy Child]]: All the mutant children.

* [[The End - or Is It?]]: The final shot in the end of the original movie has the glowing eyes headed towards the audience as they are looking through the fire.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: In the original, all of the alien children die along with the teacher responsible, but everyone else survives.

* [[Literal Metaphor]]: In the original, the protagonist focuses on the words "brick wall" to hide how he plans to kill the psychic children. We see their attempts to break through his [[Psychic Static]] as a literal brick wall, which slowly falls to pieces as they force their way in.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The children's reaction when they find out what's behind the "brick wall".

* [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide]]: And the children do this for ''fun''.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The [[Evil Albino]] in conjunction with the [[Hive Mind]] and the complete, and utter lack of emotion the children possesses, has this effect on the audience, and even in-universe.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the remake, the children take any pain inflicted upon them, accidentally or otherwise, and force the adults to experience it taken [[Up to Eleven]].

** The little girl who is accidentally given too hot soup, and coincidentally is the leader of the group? She makes her mother stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide via driving off a cliff.

* [[The End - or Is It?]]: In the final shot of the remake, it was implied there was a sequel in the works involving David.

* [[Hellish Copter]]: In the 1995 film, the children mind-whammy a police helicopter pilot into making a rather abrupt and explosive crashlanding.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]

[[Category:Hugo Award]]