Review – Village of the Damned (1995)

Village of the out-of-work actors is more like it. With Michael Pare, Mark Hamil and Christopher Reeve (pre-accident) chewing on the scenery, you know you’re in for a real treat. I’m not sure why John Carpenter decided that it would be a good idea to remake a dreary old film about a village terrorized by psychic alien children, particularly inasmuch as he didn’t really seem to add too much when he redid it. This comes across as a made-for-TV production (though it was originally released in theaters), an odd step for a director with a long-standing reputation for making much better movies. Mildly amusing