When the village of the damned in 1995 came into the cinema, the remake of the horizon horror movie from the year 1960 flashed. Worse still: The strip was nominated in 1996 even for the golden raspberry in the category Lowest New Filming or Continued.
Although the village of the damn does not belong to the great films of director John Carpenter, the film played a bit of money at least on the home theater market and even has a certain cult factor.
The Blu-ray version published in 2015 is now even out of print and is sold on the used market for salted prices. No wonder then, the cook movie now launched a new version in the Limited Steel book. We looked at John Carpenters the village of the damned again and betray them both, whether image and sound quality are satisfactory, as well as whether the film itself is aged in dignity. John Carpenters The Damn Village: The Blu-ray New Edition in Test (3) Source: Koch Films
Superman vs. Gruselbublagen
John Carpenters the village of the damn: the Blu-ray new edition in the test (6) Source: Koch Films The inhabitants of the small town of Midwife are actually looking forward to a feast, but a mysterious power falls in and puts all people and animals within the City border in a six-hour sleep. The doctor. Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeves) then notes that unusually many women were pregnant for the day of mysterious slumber. His own wife is also affected.
All pregnant women finally give birth to the same day and the children all have a scary similarity. But that's not enough: the strange sprouts grow incredibly fast and have inhumane powers with whom they make adult and read their thoughts.
When the children are no longer back in front of murder, the inhabitants of Midwife decide to proceed against the brood, but the evil cuckoo children can not like that.
Carpenter on clear
The village of the damn is not a bad movie. The premise of strange gruel kids holding a small town in Hostels works well and some scenes in the movie actually go under the skin. However, the strip is pretty much barren about wide routes and there is never terrifying. In the good moments you can tell the handwriting of the old John Carpenter.
For example, the cult director understands steering the mysterious sleep with spooky calm. He renounces unnecessary Fireman, but lets the eerie happen to speak. Even the cruel murder of one of the city dwellers is so excellently implemented that as a spectator one shares the moral dilemma of the characters in the film: these are only small children, but they are absolutely evil and should actually be eliminated.
John Carpenters The Damn Village: The Blu-ray New Edition in the Test (1) Source: Koch Films These moments are much too rare, because most of the time you get the burned-out 90s carpenter, which of numerous flops and trouble with the studio system in Hollywood is drawn. This is how the film is sometimes a focus.
The story migrates here, sometimes there and fails to give the characters' depth. Carpenter once showed the fog very well that he knows how a movie can be worn more of an ensemble than clear protagonists, but the village of the damn fails.
The only character with a little profile is the Christopher Reeve played Dr. Alan Chaffee. However, Reeve has become awkwardly, as if he did not get clear directing instructions for his role. At all, the village of the damn looks like a clear job work, as the film is missing for carpenters otherwise typical attention to detail and the sense of the spectators.
John Carpenters The village of the damn: The Blu-ray new edition in the test (4) Source: Koch Films so great carpenter in many of his films could also stage small roles, here he does not succeed. Even the also playing Mark Hamill in the role of a priest remains pale. Especially bad is the scene in which a woman is forced by one of the cuckoo children to put their arm in a pot with boiling soup. Actually, that should be scary, but it is involuntarily funny.
Nevertheless, the village of the damn is far from a catastrophe like Carpenters Ghosts of Mars. The film often splashes a bit ahead and some things do not work as you should, or you are used to it from the cult movies Carpenters.
But you will still be rewarded with great scenes again and again, in which then again the former master director, the Halloween, the fog or the thing staged from another world. John Carpenters The Damn Village: The Blu-ray New Edition in Test (2) Source: Koch Films
No big extra sausage
Sound and image quality of the Blu-ray are mostly very good. Initially, the picture in a few moments is short slightly diesel, but generally convinced the movie with clear pictures and rich colors. The age is still clear to the strip.
Carpenter mostly produced quite cheap. In the 80s he could hide that well, but in the 90s his works often watched like cheap TV productions. Even with the village of the damned, never blockbuster quality comes up.
Of course, the Blu-ray can not change it. Nevertheless, the movie looks better than ever before. Something disappointing, however, are the few extras. Only a trailer, a few featuring and a short making-of are on the slice. Here you would have been able to expect again from a renewed publication. Nevertheless, the Steelwork of course belongs to any collection of a real carpenter fan.
Conclusion
At that time, the horror strip already belonged to carpenter masterpieces and nowadays fall on even more disturbing elements. Nevertheless, the premise continues to convince, and some scenes then carry the handwriting of the cult director. Hardcore horror movie collector and carpenter fans grab, the rest looks the thing from another world.
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John Carpenters The Damn Village: The Blu-ray New Edition in Test (1) [Source: Koch Films]
From Christian Degree editor 25.11.2021 at 18:00
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