Martin Stephens

Village of the Damned (1960)

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
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The Innocents (1961)

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. Of the multiple film versions, this is the best and most authentic to the story
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The Witches (1966)

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
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