I was 10 years old when I saw it in the movie theater. Really affected and disturbed me back then. One the the most haunting science fiction movies ever made.

Milhouse spread the word, we're seeing this movie. Tonight. That's right, we're breaking curfew

i always used to think that this movie was a nightmare I had as a kid that I never forgot

I saw this movie when I was young and it made me realize that children who plays the bad guys are scary as hell! For them it's almost a game so they give their all goosebumps! 😬

I saw this in the theater as a child. What a creepy, frightening movie!

I first saw this as a kid !! I literally had nightmares of those kids standing over me with those glowing eyes!!

Superior material, superior suspense... The Brits could pull this off like no one else. I've often wondered, too, if this was on some level a premonition of the '60s Baby Boom. "Imagine them as teenagers...!"

"We know that you and the bootblack have been rogering the fishwife in the crumpet shop."

Boy..I remember this movie..and Children of the Damned.. I was young when I saw those movies.. and it's still a classic today.

i used to sneak downstairs late at night,turn the tv on & watch movies while my folks were sleeping.I was 4 yrs older than these kids & they scared the cr*p out of me! "Village of the Damned" was an astounding idea, it holds up very well in 2022-those clever Brits!

I always thought this version to be far superior to the 1995 American remake. There is something quite menacing and disturbing about the idea of young children being able to take control of whole communities.

I was four years old when this movie came out; there used to be television ads for it. I got horrible, HORRIBLE, nightmares from these commercials. (It was also advertised pictorially in our Evening Bulletin newspaper and I got nightmares from them too.) Though it embarrasses me now, I was told that my mother actually gathered up the gumption to call the television stations to complain. Of course, later in my youth, I grew to love horror movies (though I didn't get a chance to see the whole "Village Of The Damned" until I was an adult!"

I haven’t watched either version of the movie but the kids look more creepy in black and white than they do in the 1995 version. Especially their eyes.

You've been sneaking puddings

" ....Tiny tots, with their eyes all a-glow..."

I watched this movie as a kid and it scared me to DEATH

There was a sequel in 1963 titled "Children of the Damned." In the U.S., the title was changed to "Those Damn Kids!"

This year Mark's 50 years since John Wyndham passed away!! 1969 I hope one of the terrestrial channels Mark's this!! Way ahead of his time!!!

When I first saw this film, I thought it might have been a Twilight Zone episode. It could certainly pass for one.

When I first saw this movie years ago I was gripped by fear and my buttocks literally quivered like jelly the whole movie. A real classic!

Where my simpsons fans at?

This is pretty much how I remember my kids 50 years ago

I never realized this whole time this was actually the original village of the damned movie!

Now playing at the Springfield Drive-In... after dark.

I thought that one Simpsons episode reference Children of the Corn as a kid but now I found the source!

It looks like something out of the twilight zone.

Another unmissable classic.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

The original movie based on John Wyndham's book Midwich Cockoos was the best.

I wish I had been alive when both this film and its sequel COTD which came out, four years later were originally made and shown on television the first time around.

!!!Fact of the day!!! My nan was one of the village children."Janice Howley" was her name in the film.

A real creepy film for sure

I've seen that movie as a child. Been looking for it

On Svengoolie tonight!

Loved this film since I was about 12 yrs old back in 70s,unfortunately a bit before my time as I would loved to have seen it on the big screen.

00:34 Fun fact. That girl is June Cowell.. Simon Cowell’s sister

I was ten when I saw this in 1960. All I can remember was thinking...wow those English girls are really pretty. LOL

I knew the current events of September 2019 reminded me of something...

I remember seeing this movie for the first time as a little kid I believe I was 10 years old and my mother recommended this movie I fell in love with it and it also scared the crap out of me at the same time

*The child actor (Martin Stephens) who played the lead psycho-eyes went on the following year to play in an even creepier movie: "The Innocents", along with Deborah Kerr.*

You've been Rogering the Fishwife, Haven't you !! 🐟🐕

Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! Seriously, I saw the trailer in the cinema when I was five. Terrorised me.

we know all your secrets...😁

God, the trailer narrator's tone and delivery make this movie seem more a goofy comedy than a science fiction/horror film.

When I was very young around 1964 my hair was as blond as the children in the movie, I could have quite easily have been one of them. I'm now turned 60 and dark - haired with only a smattering of grey mixed in.

Surprisingly in the og movie, david was the leader not mara in the 1995.

Watch this one with your babysitter.

Je suis bien contente de revoir C. est films.

Makes me think of the song "Angry Eyes", by Loggins and Messina!

I havnt even seen this version yet I only seen the 1995 village of the damned and this one looks really awesome and can't wait to order it tomarrow :)

Now playing at the Springfield drive through...after darkkkkk.

Nicely done Sci FI movie for its time.

Hope talking pictures TV might show this soon right up there street!

Leave us alone lol

Does anybody know of a movie I saw at the cinema approx 45 years ago. All I remember was adults , trance like?, Walking in the dark from memory, they had piercing eyes and wore cloaks. I'd love to see it again and see why it freaked me out so much. I don't remember any other details about it. Tia

I've got the 1960 version and it's sequel (Children Of The Damned), PLUS John Carpenter's [terrible] 1995 version - all on Laserdisc! Nothing beats the original.

Very much looking forward to watching and critiquing this

RIP Vaughan Targaryen, your watch has ended

I wonder how much radium they use in those contacts to make them glow like that and wonder if those kids are blind from the radium exposure

A stone cold classic. Meanwhile, SKY have released their version of The Midwich Cuckoos, wherein the children have different ethnicities. A key plot point of John Wyndham's novel is that many eerily similar-looking children are born at the same time. Sky try and cover that off by giving them all the same haircut, which is ludicrous.

I found this movie fascinating and believable. Scientists and individuals in certain governmental, religious, political, commercial ,private and other groups I believe practice or study telepathy,psychokinesis and group thought where the entire group can think as one. Because in general a group is physically and mentally stronger than one individual when the group is united as one. In reality there is a thin line between science fiction and pure science.

The cop in this movie is Maester Aemon from Game Of Thrones.

bellissimo film

This classic

I remember being a kid and this movie creeped me the f out.

The preview used to make me run from the room as a 5 year-old. Those kids with their glowing eyes scared the bejeesus out of me.

My beautiful children oh my how Enlightened u have Grown Grimm

Buena

Is that Sir Desmond Glazebrook chairing the meeting?

Also check out The Children (1980) it's a very fun copy cat of sorts with a Harry Manfredini score (Friday the 13th)

Bruh I wished I have this Power

One of the greatest horror flicks before we got Nightmare on Elm Street one of the most finest and bloodiest slashers of our time.

I was a little girl when I saw this at the theater. Scared the stuffings out of me.

John Carpenter’s version was good, but there’s just something about black and white movies that makes them no less scarier than most horror movies of today.

I always imagined this movie as a "Quatermass" movie with George Sanders as Q. He was diverted from his tasks at the British Rocket Group near Midwich because of the "incident", and it would have to have an ending where he wasn't killed off. Of course, I would have had Brian Donleavy play Quatermass, with his gruff "Doctor Who"-ish attitude. Title: "Quatermass 3: The Space Children".

Cool.

The movie "The Darkest Minds" that came out this year, parallels this movie somewhat.

Kinda reminds me of the black eyed kids.

Growing up (43 now) I was an avid reader especially of Sci Fi, I did read 'Triffids' by Wyndham, but didn't get to 'Midwich at the time, I read Well's, Orwell, Assimov, Clarke, Huxley etc. For some reason Midwich passed me by and I very recently heard an audio of it, then watched this soon after. Some things to say. Absolutely fantastic book, absolutely fantastic adaption, deserving of the praise. Quite how a screenwriter and/or director can transform a 239 pg novel into a 78 min film (so impeccably) is beyond me. However, they oughtn't have mentioned any 'I'm cold' references...immaterial. Also, why the title change? It actually put me off throughout the yrs as I've never been a horror fan. It's not exactly a horror.

0:58 I'm pretty sure that's the guy who played Sir Desmond Glazebrook in Yes, Prime Minister

That is true. It happened before and it's happening again.

I prefer the first twenty minutes of this movie; right up to the point where everyone wakes up. Originally, I believed my parents took me to see this movie when I was a youngster but I'm beginning to think it was Children of the Damned (1964).

I was so fascinated with this film as a child, being able to control the minds of your enemies.

I hope this novel will get a new movie adaptation

Now your thinking. How did they know what I was thinking?

Now this is the one.... I don't know how George Saunders played this part.....

I watched it in the 60's

I like to see this version

Does anyone know where I could find the full 1960 movie to watch online by any chance? Iv'e only seen the 1995 remake since they play it a lot on tv , Was hoping see the original =]

saw this with mum when i was 11, very scary

is anyone here from teen wolf ..?

This is based in the book "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham published in 1957.

Came here from strong Britain great nation song 🤣🤣

For a parody: Village People of the Dammed

good movie i just finished re watching

No entiendo nada. Pero heme aquí viendo el cortó.

Slartibartfast. He had an award for designing Fjords.

I feel like this is the inspiration for out modern day Black eyes children urban legend

Time for a remake...I would watch it 🖤

Did anyone see the Mike Tyson interview where he described meeting Eminem was like standing across from these kids?