Village of the Damned/Children of Damned

We have met the enemies, and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that's the problem: They are the offspring of aliens who secretly impregnated human women! That's the riveting premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife with paranoia and set in England's tiny Midwich. There, the glowing-eyed humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does. It's "yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world" in the sequel, Children of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who may be a leap forward in human evolution are brought from around the globe to England for scientific study -- and then the terror hits with full force. Children, behave!

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