Village of the Damned: The initial incident

[@Recubs0608]

The animals should have won acting awards for this

[@LisaKoffler]

That's true!

[@esq8]

I could've won that acting award. That's how I wake up every day!

[@LisaKoffler]

REALLY?

[@esq8]

@@LisaKoffler yes, I wake up really groggy. They should have just put me on set and let me wake from a nap.

[@LisaKoffler]

I only set my alarm clock to get up early if I need to be somewhere, like doctor appointments!

[@chayophan3078]

Years ago, I blacked out due to a minor, passing health issue. Walking through the hall at home, feeling a bit woozy, unstable. One second I'm conscious even if a bit foggy, the next I'm face down on the hardwood floor in a steadily spreading puddle of my own blood. When I lost consciousness, apparently my limp body just dropped like a sack of potatoes with my unprotected face catching most of my dead weight which somehow split my chin, busted both lips and crushed my nose. So, the opening shown in the clip here doesn't have the same impact on me now, with the above noted incident behind me, as it did when I first watched the movie as a new release. All those unconscious people scattered about the town, laid out on concrete sidewalks, asphalt streets, etc., and not a drop of blood to be seen. Still a great movie though, and a viscerally effective scene, conceptually.

[@richardmoloney689]

Glad your ok man

[@addisonyoungg8052]

Damn, that sounded brutal I agree with the comment above ☝🏾

[@thedemonnemo]

Good thing you weren't grilling!

[@PrinceDuCiel7]

That’s what I was thinking! Uncontrolled fall = head trauma. Unless they fainted with some warning, you just go Down

[@melodiefrances3898]

I had the same thought. I have fallen, and, yes, you generally don't go down easy

[@sacradotjoannes]

So sad that Kirsty and Chris are not with us RIP

[@LisaKoffler]

It's always sad when good actors pass away.

[@phoenixman8569]

Sadly this was Christopher's last acting role before his horse riding accident that left him wheel chair bound for the rest of his life...

[@LisaKoffler]

That's the saddest part!

[@Maurice-q8z]

the more you age the more you have to be prepared to say goodbye 😢😢

[@LisaKoffler]

Nobody lives forever!

[@JeantheSecond-ip7qm]

That lady’s bathtub faucet was running for 6 hours?! So much water damage!

[@LisaKoffler]

That's also why those people in yellow suits came into the house!

[@donkeyslayer9879]

That is the least of her problems.

[@bluv6430]

I was thinking about her possibly drowning when the tub started overflowing. Yeah, I doubt there's a floor drain so yeah, lots of water damage.

[@LisaKoffler]

It's true that she could have drowned, but thankfully, she didn't thanks to the floor drain!

[@thomasnenneau2487]

I wasn't allowed to see the Village of the Damned because it was R rated. I went to see the PG rated Village of the Darned instead.

[@LisaKoffler]

That's good!

[@vk2ig]

Village of the Darned ... where a strange effect inexplicable to science causes all the residents to repair socks.

[@LisaKoffler]

Science fiction can sometimes be too complex to understand!

[@JamesEmbasan]

​@@vk2igThat's actually called 'growing up with my Grandmother'.

[@LisaKoffler]

I don't have a problem with censored versions, because they're less scary!

[@TallSilentGuy]

You know what would have been even worse? If Mr Barbecue Face started regaining consciousness!

[@LisaKoffler]

YUCK! "Mr. Barbecue Face" ALREADY looked like a sight from a horror film while dead!

[@ncox001]

the movie was a terrible adaption of a great novel, so the BBQ villager was a sort of highlight

[@LisaKoffler]

"A sort of highlight?" I didn't see that, but I DID see the original version from 1960, and some people liked it better than the remake!

[@Ferret-v8r]

I just wonder if the smell would have been appetizing? Like steak!

[@LisaKoffler]

EEWW! No, I don't think so, since "burnt human flesh" is NOT "beef!"

[@moretoknowshow1887]

Christopher Reeves last walking part.

[@LisaKoffler]

R.I.P.

[@srsr3439]

What's the opposite of Christopher Walken? Christopher Reeve

[@LisaKoffler]

I don't know!

[@bificommander7472]

​@@srsr3439"That was in terrible taste."

[@xyinterrupted]

No Reeves had another walking role coming up after this movie...but a jealous actor horse (who also wanted the upcoming part) took crazy tactics against Reeves resulting in his "accident". Christopher Reeves was a great guy, shame the media covered up his injuries.

[@Sardonac]

That scene with the grill haunted my childhood mind for years. Creepy!

[@katda50]

Same! I was actually watching this video to confront myself with this childhood trauma :D

[@TripleR250]

Unlucky guy could have fell backwards instead

[@LisaKoffler]

WHY he didn't fall backwards is anyone's guess!

[@griver007able]

​@@LisaKoffler Because his trying to taste the meat ahead of others.

[@LisaKoffler]

EEWW! THAT'S SICK!

[@LisaKoffler]

An unknown alien life force caused the "blackout," and impregnated 10 women, and that scared the HELL out of me!

[@FranSanTeeth90]

In the book it was every female over or under a certain age. But most of the babies were ☠️ or stillborn

[@LisaKoffler]

I had NO IDEA that a book existed, but the movies mentioned that there was MORE than one "blackout" and mass pregnancies, but the babies were killed, because they were too dangerous!

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

@@LisaKoffler - The book is called "The Midwich Cuckoos". I read it many years ago, and found it much better than the movie (IMHO!) It's definitely worth a read!

[@LisaKoffler]

I'll remember that!

[@hooksethijinx4769]

You're fucked when superman can't help you

[@LisaKoffler]

In this movie, Christopher Reeve played a doctor, so he was a different kind of "Superman" by sacrificing his own life to save a small town!

[@simonm7133]

The original film was made in 1964 and based on the John Wyndham book, The Midwich Cuckoos. It was actually made not far from what is now the Harry Potter Tour , in the village of Letchmore Heath just outside Watford UK. It starred George Sanders (particularly known as the voice of Shere Kahn in The Jungle Book cartoon) and a 'high priestess' of Hammer Horror movies, the beautiful Barbara Shelley. Somehow, filming it in black and white made it more disturbing and scary. Highly recommend it.

[@KevinInPhoenix]

Brick wall, brick wall, brick wall...

[@votemonty1815]

Both Kal-El & Luke Skywalker. GOTTA LOVE IT! ❤️

[@LisaKoffler]

You mean "Superman and Luke Skywalker!" MANY people "joked" about them being in the same movie together, but in this movie, Christopher Reeve played a doctor, while Mark Hamill played a church minister!

[@raym444]

​@@LisaKofflerKal El was Superman's real name. Duh!

[@LisaKoffler]

I know that. Duh!

[@melodiefrances3898]

​@LisaKoffler then why did you "correct" the other person, duh?

[@LisaKoffler]

It's because I thought "the other person" would refer to him by his adoptive name, Clark. Duh!

[@TripleR250]

This movie could have been called "village of burning to death" 💀😂

[@LisaKoffler]

That's true! Besides that man that got burned on the grill, Jill's husband, Frank also got "grilled" in the truck crash!

[@junibug6790]

It sure was silly of those pickup truck drivers to both load their trucks with 300 pounds of non-shock-resistant TNT.

[@leonardorazuk]

So they thouhgt it was something in the air that was causing it, that was also constrained by a line painted on the road.

[@LisaKoffler]

They were just trying to figure out what was going on!

[@patwiggins6969]

The line on the road wasn't containing it. It was just marking the spot where the edge of the event was. C'mon I didn't see the movie and only watched the same video you did

[@LisaKoffler]

You're right! It was just the Town of Midwich alone that was experiencing a mystery NO ONE could understand!

[@leonardorazuk]

@@patwiggins6969 my point is, if they thought that there was something in the air causing it, they should all be wearing masks, because the wind wouldnt care for the city limits.

[@shantakidd6230]

@@leonardorazukthey should all be wearing masks? Well we actually know now that they probably wouldn’t wear masks thanks to extensive amounts of examples from the pandemic

[@johngault22]

The British black & white original from the 1950s/60s is so much better and well creepier.

[@LisaKoffler]

REALLY? All people are different, and MANY people thought the 1995 remake was scarier!

[@jmcclain8237]

Meh

[@LisaKoffler]

Everyone has their own preferences!

[@ernestoromero7689]

Si, esa película fue muy buena, pero está también lo es

[@LisaKoffler]

They're BOTH good!

[@lm-cv9qb]

Barbequeing that guy was just unneccessary

[@LisaKoffler]

It's a movie, meaning that it's make-believe! I didn't like it, either, but it was part of the storyline!

[@JohnnyAngel8]

The grilled scene was well-done. 😂

[@RobDogman]

Kirsty Ally was many things, but God damn was she a great actress.

[@LisaKoffler]

I enjoyed her work, too!

I am only finding now that she has passed away 😢

[@martinsuper4545]

Was she?

[@LisaKoffler]

Absolutely!

[@rriicckkyy07]

Omg me too! Well, today!

[@spotifyde5979]

@3:20 if they are planning to drag that guy back to them how about they give him a helmet, some gloves, and a jacket or something more protective than a uniform shirt? And why didn't he make a bee line to check on the other officers? And wouldn't it take several people collapsing in a row at the same point before someone figured out there was a magical line over which one should not cross?

[@ernestoromero7689]

Es una película, no un documental científico. Por Dios!

[@thegreatlordcthulhu9852]

That one guy has the right idea. Getting a drink right after waking up

[@LisaKoffler]

He was the drunk janitor, and he was eventually killed after striking Mara's partner, Robert with his broom handle!

[@earlleeruhf3130]

He was in the movie They Live starring Roddy Piper.

[@nettewilson5926]

Such a sad disturbing story

[@LisaKoffler]

It's just fiction, and not ALL stories are happy!

[@simbiontedelaluz]

What's this story about?

[@LisaKoffler]

It's about an unknown alien life force wreaking havoc in the worst ways!

[@lovelight6973]

Such a freaky scene. Remember watching this when I was young freak me out

[@nevbarnes1034]

John Wyndham based Midwich on Midhurst, a village just north of Chichester in West Sussex.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

6:12 "Aaaaaaaargh!! I told him not to overcook the sausages"

[@LisaKoffler]

I thought he burned the hot dogs!

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@LisaKoffler It's difficult to tell what they are now, he's made such a mess of them. I hope he's ashamed.

[@LisaKoffler]

How can he be "ashamed" because of the "blackout?" It's the unknown alien life force that needs to be ashamed!

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@LisaKoffler Excuses excuses. (I'm joking.)

[@LisaKoffler]

I understand that!

[@iankeeley1854]

Much prefer the original one

[@LisaKoffler]

Different people have different tastes!

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

0:20 You only notice it after you've already seen the movie before.

[@SteveSabbai]

VOTD (1960) is rated 7/10 on IMDB. The 1995 version is rated 5.5/10.

[@LisaKoffler]

You can't please everyone!

[@davidlewis1787]

The book is a 10/10

[@LisaKoffler]

I didn't read the book!

[@davidlewis1787]

@ give it a go it’s fantastic. Same writer as ‘day of the triffids’ and even better ‘the kraken wakes’ a writer by the name of John Wyndham, early 20th century science fiction at its best.

[@stephenburtonattorneyatlaw4322]

Pumpkins at the BBQ then later a June calendar on the wall?

[@LisaKoffler]

Time goes by fast!

[@Tribozom]

Depends of the area.

[@josepharnold8422]

This version wasn't bad but the original is better.

[@dailyqwikbytes]

Superman and Saavik. RIP Kirstie and Chris.

[@tconnolly9820]

I would go a said, Superman and Rebecca.

[@FunctionalJunkie_]

This was a great movie ❤

[@upland77]

Superman and Luke Skywalker couldn't save the day

[@simonf8902]

Midwich Cuckoo base John Wyndham?

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Yeah, sold as a remake of the British movie from the 60s.

[@LisaKoffler]

I thought it was another movie altogether!

[@smartalek180]

Wyndham was a genius, and now sadly mostly forgotten. Great as Midwich Cuckoos was, Day of the Triffids was even better, and The Chrysalids was better still.

[@LisaKoffler]

He made quite a few movies back then!

[@LandonStrauss-hc1sc]

Time for a reimagining of the film couldn't be a better time for it.😅

[@LisaKoffler]

This is a remake of the original version from 1960, so it's already been "reimagined!"

[@droth1031]

Sounds like the pitch room for the Tom Cruise Mummy. "What if... we rebooted a reboot?!"

[@CharlesXavier]

6:11 Sleeping on the job can surely get a man... (puts on sunglasses) ... *FIRED. YEEEAAAHHH!*

[@LisaKoffler]

In this case, LITERALLY!

[@PatrickCampbell-rl8mp]

The original is the best in black and white makes it seem better the children are so much evil 😈 looking❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 marvelous horror movie 2thumbs up

[@LisaKoffler]

The remake in color shows more "personality" with the different eye colors!

[@Lover-of-Creative-Priorities]

How long was this whole village out cold for in the border?

[@thepagan333]

'The Poison Belt'- Jules Verne

[@LisaKoffler]

There was NO poison in this scene!

[@joseescobedo7899]

Idk but seeing every just sleeping on the floor is oddly funny to ne

[@arielmalsireal5453]

Basically The Intro On Incidents Reminds Me Of The Happening 😂😂😂

[@richa.s9912]

Christopher Reeves has hurt himself in the horse jumping accident yet that paralyzed him from the neck to feet and this looks like 1996 movie. after he made Superman movie Against Nuclear powerman that Lex Luther created from nuclear power bombings towards the Sun and Superman was trying to remove all Worlds Nuclear power bombs off earth from each Nations 1995 ?

[@LisaKoffler]

This was the last movie Christopher Reeve made before his horse jumping accident! MANY different actors played and voiced Lex Luthor, and I came to believe that he was BORN "a bad seed!"

[@Kenshiroit]

I guess high concentration of co2 in the air, maybe filtrated from the ground, any mines in the area?

[@fr9714]

They never really explained the whole or why properly. Yeah the kids had powers and did some stuff but it was never made clear as to why and that is more irritating to me. The not knowing why

[@riomichellecorrales7096]

My grandfather had that inexpensive copy of The Midwich Cuckoos. I did not read it nor keep it. In later years this movie was released.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

NOT THE DOG!

[@LisaKoffler]

There was more than one dog, and the bird in the birdcage!

The animals didn't die, though. They just got caught by whatever made everyone pass out and they passed out too.

[@LisaKoffler]

More than that! The unknown alien life force didn't want any "distractions" while impregnating the 10 women!

[@LisaKoffler]

That's right! The unknown alien life force didn't want "distractions" while impregnating 10 women!

[@yodaz101]

We already have that its called Washington.

[@LisaKoffler]

This was a small town!

[@larrybest9701]

Dude, now that's funny!

[@LisaKoffler]

That's a weird way of looking at it!

[@juneangel7221]

Super man and 😊😊😊😊well to your imagination 😊😊

[@LisaKoffler]

Superman and Luke Skywalker

[@FreakyLynx]

I really liked this remake.

[@PennywiseTheDancingClown274]

That tractor wouldnt have stopped unless someehow shifted after passing out

[@LisaKoffler]

That's true!

[@richardmoloney689]

Musta been John Deer

[@LisaKoffler]

You mean "John Deere," and anything's possible!

[@TallSilentGuy]

Dead man's handle?

[@LisaKoffler]

Yes, it certainly looks that way!

[@simbiontedelaluz]

What's the plot and how it ends?

[@andrewcox9207]

Read the John Wynham book before discovering this movie. Just discovered it was remade as a series in 2022.

[@LisaKoffler]

I didn't see that!

[@abdelhak982]

I watched this movie as a kid.

[@wmpmacm]

Black and white version was great.

[@LisaKoffler]

I prefer color, because it's easier to see everything!

[@wmpmacm]

@@LisaKoffler But black and white was really spooky.

[@LisaKoffler]

So is darkness all by itself!

[@SuperDurv]

Kirstie was a Trumper?

[@davidlewis1787]

It’s a fantastic book by an amazing author…the midwich cookoos

[@addisonyoungg8052]

Sort of like “the happening” except there passing out instead of actively killing themselves 😅

[@MrCjosue24]

The Damned of the Village

[@LisaKoffler]

NO ONE expected that to happen!

[@TheVFXbyArt]

6:10 Why everyone smelled bacon…

[@psyourauntie]

The dog 🐕 is a great 😃 actor 😊😅

[@user-sh5ug2vs7q]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌺🌸Kristen allay et Christopher reeves 😢

[@davidsavage5630]

Maybe Bill Cosby was just passing through town that day..

[@LisaKoffler]

NO! It was an unknown alien life force that caused it!

[@iainclark5964]

Why do Americans feel the need to remake classic films with inferior remakes?

[@ElioOliver99]

The music is creepy ❤

[@iankeeley1854]

The first British 1 was so much better.

[@LisaKoffler]

Different people have different tastes, and there's nothing wrong with having preferences!

[@vanessapanek9959]

They were considered alien human hybrid children. I would know I’m one of them.

[@keiichi8191]

Village of the Mildly Inconvenienced

[@LilFireFox]

RIP Kirstie Alley.

[@LisaKoffler]

RIP Christopher Reeve.

[@manynoree2173]

Edwin bernaise...

[@williamreynolds2475]

Look at all those damned cows.

[@vanessapanek9959]

She manipulated all of the parents that participated in this program

[@martinsuper4545]

Kristy Alley trying to be tough. Hilarious

[@LisaKoffler]

You mean "Kirstie," and I always thought she was tough, and played tough characters!

[@amydearing9866]

I want to read the book that inspired this movie, the Midwich Cuckoos

[@HorrorHeadReactions]

ole bad ass lil kids!!!!

[@alexandrevibo]

Everyone died.The End

[@krashd]

Always someone that overreacts to burned sausages.

[@patrickmuhwheeney6518]

Uncredited Seth Myers...

[@LisaKoffler]

I didn't see that!

[@lincolnyaco5626]

Poor Chris. Poor Lirstie.

[@LisaKoffler]

You mean "Kirstie!" Nobody lives forever!

[@davidelliott2485]

If Kirstie Alley is in it, I’ll watch it!!!

[@LisaKoffler]

She's in it!

She is, and she was wonderful. The movie wasn't, though.

[@LisaKoffler]

You can't please everyone!

[@danabrahams7892]

do not waste your time... see the British original instead

[@vanessapanek9959]

John MacArthur took 12 on willing participate and out of those 12 women that were unwilling participates participants and project majestic 12 had 12 children of biologically different origins of the alien DNA Gnome

[@vanessapanek9959]

She was a compulsive liar

[@oscarcastillo2882]

Traducción al español latino de, gracias

[@stephenbingham5935]

Another bowdlerised American version of an English story and film. Thank God Spielberg did not get hold of Harry Potter.

[@WaKincaid]

Hair & makeup 💄

[@LisaKoffler]

I thought the alien children's hair and makeup looked more like wigs!

[@mistresskaliko5596]

Dam village 😂😂😂

[@debbieannsmith8962]

😮😮😮

[@yoliarnold315]

? 🤔

[@LisaKoffler]

?

[@JoséPedro-e3j]

We are dead

[@loujon191]

Must be that clean Ohio air

[@LisaKoffler]

No, this is the Town of Midwich in Northern California!

[@Homerrr69]

It's covid 19

[@dale3852]

Uk version is best

[@tommyhunter1817]

This is what the CIA was hoping Covid would do.

[@HardTack808]

Enjoy…whatever planet you’re living on.

[@tommyhunter1817]

@@HardTack808 prove me wrong.

[@PeterLGଈ]

​@@tommyhunter1817Prove what wrong? An unfounded, unsupported claim? Nothing to prove. You're making the claim; prove you're right.

[@tommyhunter1817]

@@PeterLGଈ the government has to prove I’m wrong and they have not even come close.

[@smartalek180]

@@tommyhunter1817 You're an alien from Zebulon here to enslave half of us and eat the other half. Prove me wrong, shit-4-brains.

[@lisawakelam8189]

Free ivf

[@LisaKoffler]

NOT in this case! It was "unknown alien ivf!"

[@dianeyoung3752]

So only ten women get pregnant out of the whole village LoL

[@SchardtCinematic]

Notice the aliens only impregnated women. Because men can't have babies.

[@KevinInPhoenix]

That was true in 1995 but it is up for debate these days.

[@SchardtCinematic]

@KevinInPhoenix 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vanessapanek9959]

She never had a license to practice being a midwife, which meant she was inadequately trained to be delivering babies. She also had birth records from 12 children that she profit off of the children, and this movie were used as propaganda from the United States government and the United States government has continually violated their human rights as human beings on the planet earth.

[@LordMondegrene]

I want to see "Village of the Darned," where everyone in town gets their period, even the men... during a Midol shortage. 😅😅😅

[@LisaKoffler]

I learned that Midol came out in the '50s, and the version you're describing is more on the R rated side!

[@CescoCDN]

aka How Kirstie Alley Became a Maga conspiracy nut job.

[@glennhubbard5008]

I just hope those children accepted Jesus.