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Village of the Damned
MEANRANK
51/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5182
- IMDb #5035
- Rotten Tomatoes #4826
- Metacritic #4175
- Letterboxd #4471
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4814
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4999
- Metacritic Critics #4222
- Metacritic Audience #3883
- Criticker #1012
- Kinopoisk #4485
- AlloCiné #3863
- Trakt #4723
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 28, highest is Kinopoisk on 62. Critics average 34, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →One day, everyone in a small town simultaneously falls unconscious. Months later, every woman of childbearing age gives birth to identical, emotionless children with white hair and piercing eyes. These children possess powerful psychic abilities and a collective intelligence, and they use their powers to control the townspeople, inspiring fear and suspicion about their true nature.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writer
- David Himmelstein
- Based on
- The Midwich Cuckoos by Q313673
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Alphaville Films
- Released
- 28 April 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $22.0M
- Box office
- $9.4M
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