Is Village of the Damned scary?

Not particularly — Village of the Damned's appeal is atmospheric or thematic rather than overtly scary. As a alien film, it scored 2.0/10 for fear, 6.0/10 for atmosphere, and 6.5/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in Village of the Damned?

Village of the Damned has 2 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Village of the Damned?

Films similar to Village of the Damned on Watch Darkly include Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Dreamcatcher (2003), Under the Skin (2013) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Village of the Damned

1995 · R · 1h 39m

Beware the children.

An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

6.5

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Carried by atmosphere, light on gore.

Jump scares

Village of the Damned has 2 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.5Overall

Fear2.0

Gore1.0

Atmosphere6.0

Genres

science-fictionhorrorthriller

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Details

Budget$22M

Box office$9.4M

Directed by

John Carpenter

Written by

David Himmelstein

Cinematography

Gary B. Kibbe

Music

John Carpenter, Dave Davies

Starring

Christopher Reeve as Alan Chaffee · Kirstie Alley as Susan Verner · Linda Kozlowski as Jill McGowan · Michael Paré as Frank McGowan · Meredith Salenger as Melanie Roberts · Mark Hamill as Reverend George · Pippa Pearthree as Sarah · Peter Jason as Ben Blum

Production

Alphaville Films, Universal Pictures