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Box set containing two classic horror movies. In ‘Village of the Damned’ (1960), the sudden and temporary paralysis of a small English hamlet, which is followed by the town’s women becoming mysteriously pregnant. The spawn of this occurrence are a dozen eerie, blonde-haired children, who are either gifted, evil, or ‘the world’s new people’. In ‘Children of the Damned’ (1963), scientists discover that there are five children who each have enormous intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but they escape the laboratory and gather in a church. Synopsis We have met the enemies, and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and thats the problem: They are the offspring of aliens who secretly impregnated human women! Thats the riveting premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife with paranoia and set in Englands tiny Midwich. There, the glowing-eyed humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does. Its yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world in the sequel, Children of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who may be a leap forward in human evolution are brought from around the globe to England for scientific study and then the terror hits with full force. Children, behave!