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3.1/5EXECUTIONER "ACE"79 min
Village of the Damned (1960)
Directed by Wolf Rilla
3.1/5EXECUTIONER "ACE"79 minQuick Hit
Village of the Damned has a clean hook and a few strong choices that stick, which keeps it comfortably above water. Not flawless, but it gets the job done.
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There’s a real hook here, but the follow-through decides the damage. The craft is either locked in or hanging by a thread, and this movie knows it. British genre discipline gives the film a cleaner shape than many of its pulp peers. The set pieces are what matter, and this one gets some mileage out of them. That’s enough to push it into SOLID.
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