derekmccumber Review of Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned (1960)

Good cinematography, but otherwise horribly stilted and aged

[5/10 · 21 June 2017]

I can appreciate classic horror cinema, but this one has been completely neutered with time. Everything about this movie is horribly dated - from the stilted action to the corny effects. Instead of atmosphere, we get countless scenes of old white men sitting around talking about what is going on. The finale is so rushed as to be completely ineffectual - it's over before we get a real chance to feel any tension. Even in 1960 this was old-school horror. The infinitely superior Psycho came out the same here.