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All around the world, six extraordinary children (Clive Powell, Lee
Yoke-Moon, Roberta Rex, Gerald Delsol, Mahtu Mathen, Frank Summerscale)
were all born under the same circumstances, and now they show intelligence
far above that of an ordinary human, and even a remarkable talent for
mind-control, telepathy and more ...
The UNESCO gathers the six kids in London to have them examined by
scientists Lewellin (Ian Hendry) and Newill (Alan Badel), but soon the
Secret Service - represented by Colin Webster (Alfred Burke) - wants to
get their hands on the kids too, and so does Russia. The kids though have
ideas of their own, and soon enough they all run away and bunk up in an
abandoned church, and they only accept the company of Susan (Barbara
Ferris), their leader Paul's (Clive Powell) aunt, whom they obviously need
to to the housework while they are building a machine. Numerous attempt by
officials, the Secret Service and foreign agents to get their hands on the
kids only lead to one bloodbath after another since the kids are perfectly
capable of making their opponents kill themselves most brutally.
In the end, the army has surrounded the abandoned church the kids are
in, while the children agree to negotiations ... which is when someone
accidently orders the troops to open fire - and the kids are blown to
Kingdom Come.
More often than not, Children of the Damned is dismissed as a
mere remake of Village of the
Damned - which by all means it is not.
Of course, the two films share the same premise as they are based on
the same novel, and Children is a (semi-)sequel to Village
- but the similarities end pretty much here. While Village
of the Damned is a straightforward spooker about weird and
way-too-powerful kids born into a small village and the disastrous
consequences, Children of the Damned spins a yarn about espionage,
foreign gouvernments, and two scientists lost in the middle, with a bunch
of ingenious kids thrown in as well ... in direct comparison though, Village
of the Damned is the far better film, it's genuinely creepy while Children
of the Damned just sems to be a not really thought through espionage
roundabout - and the ending of Children is especially crappy, when
the kids are blown away by mere accident ... couldn't anybody have
come up with something better than that ? Actually, the whole film is not
really a good movie, not without its moments maybe, but not really worth
your while either.
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