Martin Stephens Archives

Village of the Damned (1960)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 12, 2000Telepathic Alien Children

Classic adaptation of the John Wyndham novel about the women in a sleepy English village being impregnated and producing emotionless alien children with vast psychic powers. This translates the paranoia of US alien invasion films with considerable effectiveness

Director: Wolf Rilla

Actors: George Sanders, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Barbara Shelley, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 March 200031 July 2022 by Roog

The Innocents (1961)

Rating: ★★★★½

Aug 20, 2003Psychological Ghost Story

Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is a classic ghost story that hovers in a state of ambiguity as to whether the ghosts are real or in the heroine's imagination. This is the best of the film versions

Director: Jack Clayton

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Megs Jenkins, …

Category: Horror

20 August 200311 September 2026 by Roog

The Witches (1966)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 21, 2011Hammer Film/Witchcraft in a Sleepy English Village

Hammer film, not as well known as some of their other works, from a Nigel Kneale script that creates some effect in its story of schoolteacher Joan Fontaine moving to a sleepy English village and finding the locals engaged in witchcraft

Director: Cyril Frankel

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Alec McCowen, Martin Stephens, Kay Walsh, …

Category: Horror

21 December 201126 September 2022 by Roog