
The Thing(1982)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.


“Beware the children.”
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.

Christopher Reeve
Alan Chaffee

Kirstie Alley
Susan Verner

Linda Kozlowski
Jill McGowan

Michael Paré
Frank McGowan

Meredith Salenger
Melanie Roberts

Mark Hamill
Reverend George

Pippa Pearthree
Sarah

Peter Jason
Ben Blum

Constance Forslund
Callie Blum

Karen Kahn
Barbara Chaffee
Village of the Damned is a thriller, horror, science fiction film released in 1995 exploring themes of pregnancy, village, alien life-form, alien, bewusstlosigkeit, doppelgänger. Directed by John Carpenter, it stars Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski. An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
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