Episode Seven: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976)

The Horror Double Bill

Episode Seven: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976). There's something very wrong with the children....
Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where we combine two films, and fall down several rabbit holes, to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
First up is Village of the Damned, from 1960 starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley, in which group of mysterious children take control of a small English village. Then we are heading to another village, only this time in Spain, for Who Can Kill a Child from 1976, which even in its very title, poses the question of how far would you go to protect yourself… when the danger comes from those that society has sworn to protect?
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Sources:
Evil Seeds The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children edited by Vanessa Morgan
Historical background and context:
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/clonezone/
https://www.history.com/news/juvenile-delinquency-1950s-culture
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/surviving-the-female-psychopath/202308/the-genesis-of-william-marchs-the-bad-seed
https://william-golding.co.uk/lord-of-the-flies-and-the-second-world-war
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bixby_jerome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bixby
https://www.history.com/news/cold-war-paranoia-in-pop-culture
https://retroreport.org/video/population-bomb-the-overpopulation-theory-that-fell-flat/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb#
https://www.britannica.com/event/baby-boom
https://tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/interviews-columnsmenu-166-interviews-columnsmenu-166/classic-ray-bradbury-interview/#:~:text=TANGENT%3A%20Ray%2C%20you%20have%20a,and%20just%20about%20everything%20since.
Village of the Damned:
English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897 – 2015 by Jonathan Rigby
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/johnwyndham#:~:text=Critical%20verdict
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/dec/05/2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos
https://reactormag.com/village-of-the-damned-killer-kiddos-from-outer-space/#:~:text=Upon%20its%20move%20to%20the,that%20unfortunate%20driver%20smashes%20into
https://culturevulture.net/film/village-of-the-damned/#:~:text=The%20Midwich%20Cuckoos%20alludes%20not,a%20heresy%20to%20Catholic%20dogma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sanders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Conway
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001694/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jul/14/george-sanders-centenary
Who Can Kill A Child:
“Who Can Kill a Child?” Mondo Macabro Blue Ray release special features: Interview with Narcisso Ibanez Sarrador, Interview with Kim Newman
Spanish Horror Film by Antonio Lazzaro-Reboll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Can_Kill_a_Child%3F