Village of the Damned (1995)

[bunniefuu]

[ominous music]

[ominous music continues]

[eerie whispers]

[birds cawing]

[voices whispering]

Honey, did you hear that?

What?

[groans]

[Alan] Hey, Barbara?

Did you...

Did you hear that?

I could have sworn I heard whispering.

[Barbara] You're reading
my mind, that's all.

My thoughts sound like whispers.

Oh, yeah? What were you thinking?

[moans]

I love you, Doc.

You sure make it fun to wake up
before dawn, I'll tell you that.

[ominous music]

[eerie whispers]

[ominous music continues]

[eerie whispers continue]

[faucet running]

Frank?

Hey, Frank?

[sighs, gargles]

[spits]

[Jill] Hey, Frank.

- Did you finish last night?
- No.

[Jill] No? Honey, it's a quarter to six.

It's important.

Okay. Okay.

Thanks.

[engine revving]

[papers rustling]

Okay.

That's everything.

[gasps]
Helium for the balloons!

I'm picking up a tank at Harold's
right after I drop you off.

Per your instructions.

Did I think of that? Cool.

I must be starting to get
this delegating authority stuff.

Well, Mrs. Magoo, I guess
that's why they made you principal.

I guess so.

- [Jill] Honey, don't smoke.
- Hey! Come on! Come on!

You're gonna make me crash.

Look, I'll quit smoking when you decide
to get pregnant, all right?

[lighter clicks]

- [grunts]
- [both chuckle]

[crowd clamoring]

- [Jill] Hey, guys!
- Oh, thank you, Jill. I didn't get to...

- Thank you so much.
- Do you have any left? That's all right.

- [woman 1] Everything's okay.
- Great.

- Hi!
- Good morning.

[both grunt]

- It's okay.
- Here I come.

- Wa... watch it there.
- [groans]

- [woman 2] Thanks..
- Okay.

- Hi.
- Hi. All the VIP badges are set up.

You all right?

[Callie] Hey, Jill!

- [Jill] Hey.
- Hi.

Great.

- Who's the chef?
- Oliver.

Oh, great, I love burned hot dogs.

- Hey. Jamie left these for you.
- Thanks. So when's Ben coming home?

Six weeks, four days, and nine hours.

[George] Ah... Okay, now watch the edges.

- Don't spill it.
- [Sarah] I got it.

Let's take it over here.

- Hey, Callie.
- [Callie] Frank.

- How are you?
- [Callie] Good. Good to see you.

Hey, where's my helium?

- Say you love me, babe.
- Not until you get me my helium.

[in high-pitch]
Righty-o. I'll get right on it, dear.

See you.

- Oh, you go here, and...
- Okay.

There's Jill.

I've got those receipts for her.

- [Ned] Hey, how you doing?
- Hey, Ned, how the hell are you?

- All right.
- Okay.

- Bye.
- Bye, see you later.

[engine revs]

- [Frank] Barb!
- [Barbara] Hey, Frank!

Good morning, Sam.

And you must be Cindy.
It's nice to finally meet you.

- [Cindy] Pleased to meet you.
- [Barbara] How are you doing today?

Well, shall we go in
and to take a look around?

Yeah. You're both gonna love this place.

[acoustic guitar music]

- [Harold] Down.
- [Frank] Yeah.

- [Alan] Harold.
- [Harold] Morning, Doc.

- [Alan] Frank.
- [Frank] Hey, Doc, how the hell are you?

Heading over to the school fair?

No, I gotta go to Butler County today,
make my rounds at the hospital.

Come on, you gotta try out
this muscle machine I made.

Show everybody how strong you are.

I don't know. I should probably
just sit down in the shade

and watch you young guys do it.

[chuckles]

- [Alan] See you, tough guy.
- [Frank] Right.

[applause, cheering]

- Okay. Thanks, Jill.
- We need finger paints.

Okay. Uh, I'll get them.

[man 1] Just put it
on the table right there.

[shrieks]

[door opens]

[Jill] Finger paints.

[burps]

[sighs]

Finger paints. Okay.

[bird shrieks]

[foreboding music]

Yikes!

[wind blows]

[shrieks, flaps]

[clatters]

[eerie whispers]

[water running]

[bells chiming]

[engine running]

[rock music playing on radio]

[humming]

- Whoa!
- [tires screech]

- [loud crash]
- [expl*si*n]

[fire crackles]

[sheriff] Well, a civilian pilot
spots the smoke.

And then, I get here
and find two of my officers

passed out like babies.

And everything on that side
of the white line is out cold.

So somebody starts talking
about chemical weapons,

and somebody hits a panic button,
and then you people are calling.

- Unit six to base. Over.
- There you go.

[sheriff] Look, there is no research lab.

There is no chemical plant.

There is no toxic waste dump.

There is no nuclear plant!

- There's no nothing around here.
- [Verner] Okay.

Nothing on the news channels,
nothing on the news services.

Nobody's got it yet.

[Verner] Good.

I'm just gonna take myself
another little look-see.

- [officer 1] Stay back there.
- [scientist 1] Get another call in.

[sheriff] Gather around now, gentlemen.
The first thing we need to determine...

- [Alan] Hey, Ed.
- [Ed] Hey.

That's Frank McGowan's truck, right?

What's left of it.

- Lucky you wasn't in town today, Doc.
- What's going on here?

Nobody knows nothing,
not even that Fed doctor down there.

She brought this whole circus with her,
and they ain't got a clue.

[uneasy music]

[scientist 2] I don't care what
you tell them. They want an excuse.

Now go on out there
and see what the hell's going on.

- Be careful.
- Okay.

- Stay here?
- Yeah, we'll just wait.

- Wait until he falls down.
- All right, great.

- [officer 2] Oh, no.
- Pull him back! Pull him back!

Get him out of there! Let's go!

Come on, come on, come on! Pull!

- [sheriff] Stay back, boys!
- [Alan] Excuse me. What is it?

Hits him like a hammer, Doc.
That's all we know.

- It's some kind of a chemical? Gas?
- [Verner] No, it can't be.

The edges of the affected area
are well-defined.

Stationary.

- Doc, this is Dr. Susan...
- Verner.

Like Turner, with a "V."

Epidemiologist,
National Science Foundation.

- [Alan] Alan Chaffee.
- MD?

- [Alan] Yeah.
- He's breathing.

[Verner] Good pulse.
I think he just fainted.

Is Midwich affected by this?

- My hunch would be yes.
- My wife's in Midwich.

We tried to get through
for the last six hours, Doc.

Nobody picks up the phone,
nobody calls out. Nothing

Could somebody please get me
some blood and urine samples?

Is he all right?

- [sheriff] Come on.
- [Alan] I'll get his BP.

- [sphygmomanometer wheezing]
- What's the pulse?

- [sheriff] Ninety-eight.
- [Alan] Come here, come here.

You going? Okay, all right.

[cows mooing]

[Alan] Just take it easy.
Somebody get him a blanket, huh?

[groaning]

[ominous music]

[sheriff] You all right?

- You okay?
- Yeah, yeah.

[ominous music continues]

[bird squeaks]

[groaning]

[whimpering]

[man 2] I don't know.
We were just standing here...

[water running]

[indistinct chatter]

[terrified scream]

[sizzles]

[siren blaring]

[Alan] Barbara!

Barbara?

Thank God. Are you all right?

Sweetheart, are you okay?

- [Barbara] I'm cold.
- [Alan] All right, come on. Let's go home.

[focused breathing]

[footsteps]

- [machine beeping]
- [leather stretches]

[shrieks]

[dispatcher] Twenty-one A...

[metal clanks]

Oh...

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

Oh, no.

[George] Heavenly Father,

we mourn these lives cut short
without warning or apparent purpose.

We search for a reason and find none.

We have become accustomed
to the power of science,

so when we were struck down,
we turned to science and asked, "Why?"

But it could not answer.

So now we turn our eyes toward Heaven

and seek our comfort
in God's infinite mercy.

Let us pray.

[all] Our Father, who art in Heaven,

hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those
who trespass against us

and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Or thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen.

[sorrowful music]

[inhales, sighs]

- Did you ever hear of Charles Fort?
- Mm-mm.

He wrote The Book of the Damned

about things that nobody's
been able to explain.

Like frogs falling from the sky,
and blue snow, red rain.

- Are you suggesting I read him?
- No. No, it's just that...

Sometimes, mysteries don't get solved.

I mean, look, what if something
like this happens again?

[Alan] I don't know. What do I do?
Can I call you?

Well, of course, you can call me.

[card rustles]

Oh, and, by the way, I suggest
you read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes once said,

"When you've eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,

must be the truth."

[door closes]

[inhales, groans]

[dramatic music]

It's not possible.

You made a mistake. Do it again.

Well, I mean, I don't have a problem
running the tests again, Callie...

I have felt like this
before in the morning.

It is just some kind of bug.

[weeping]

Melanie?

Melanie, what's the matter?

[whimpers]

[inhales]

- Maybe I can help.
- No. You can't.

[laughter, chatter]

- [Callie] Yeah.
- [Ben] There they are! Hey, you guys!

[Jill] We're empty!
We need some more here!

- [woman 3] How are you doing?
- [Callie] Hi, how are you?

- Oh, it's good to see you.
- [Callie] Hi.

[Jerry] I'm Jerry, by the way, I...

[Jill] Wow!

Oh, wow!

Hey, Ben, this is fantastic.

Callie, look up and smile.

So, Ben, after a year in Japan,

did you ever think you'd have
to get used to being a dad?

[exhales]

[uneasy music]

- [muttering]
- [Barbara] Hello, Doc.

I said, "Hello."

[chuckles]

- How long you been standing there?
- Oh, ages.

Liar.

- [sighs]
- Oh, hey, boy, hi.

[both moaning]

Hey.

Why are you kissing me like that?

I wanted to know first,
so I used a home pregnancy kit.

Yeah, well, honey, you know those...
those are unreliable.

And that's why I went to see
Dr. Cornright just to make sure.

Gonna open it?

[envelope rips]

Alan?

[knocks on door]

- Hi.
- [Jill] Hi.

- You got a minute?
- Sure.

Well, everything's positive.

[Alan] You are pregnant.

[exhales]

We'd been trying, you know.

Look, um...

I wanted to tell you something
before you hear it from somebody else.

[Alan] There's a lot of pregnancies.

I mean, a lot.

Much more than would normally be expected.

What... what do you mean?

Well, um...

Is something wrong with my baby?

[Alan] No, no, no. No, no. It's, um...
Nothing to indicate that.

I mean, you're a normal,
healthy young woman...

Alan, don't...
Don't talk to me like a doctor.

Okay.

All the pregnancies seem to date
from the day of the blackout.

Oh, no!

- [gasps]
- [Alan] Hey, hey.

[indistinct chatter]

[Jill] Dr. Susan Verner has flown in...

This is all 'cause
of that blackout, ain't it?

[angry yelling]

Why don't you just come out
and say something!

We don't know that for sure!

- [Jill] But I mean...
- They are all gonna be deformed!

[crowd clamoring]

Hold it. Wait. Wait a minute.
That's not true! That's not...

Excuse me! That's not true.
There's no reason to believe that.

Look, Barbara and I are pregnant, okay?
We know how you feel.

[Alan] We know what a lot of you
are thinking, so let me say right now

the same thing
I've told a lot of you individually.

The standard tests have not revealed
one abnormality.

Anywhere. Not one. All right?

Let's listen... Just a minute.
Let's listen to Dr. Verner, please.

She's come to talk to us.
Dr. Susan Verner, ladies and gentlemen.

I wanna start off by saying

that we are all very concerned
about your well-being.

[sarcastic retorts]

[Verner] But, ultimately, it will
come down to individual decisions.

And I understand that these decisions
will be probably the most intimate,

personal, difficult decisions
that you ever make in your life.

However, because your pregnancies

have attracted
intense scientific interest,

including the National Institutes
of Health and National Science Foundation,

those of you who decide to have your child
will have all prenatal expenses paid.

You'll also receive $3,000 monthly
as an allowance.

[indistinct chatter]

[Verner] If you allow your child

to be examined and tested
on some sort of regular basis.

Is that $3,000 a family?

What if your wife and your daughter
both have kids?

Then you would receive $6,000.

[gasps, murmurs]

Look, I don't want you
to interpret this allowance

as some sort of a pressure.

It isn't. It's your decision.

And if you decide to terminate,

then, of course,
you have the right to do that.

And you can do it privately.

Or if financially unable, a medical team
will be brought in next week.

- [Verner] The choice is yours.
- [man 3] That's k*lling babies.

[agitated chatter]

[Jill] Callie?

Are you okay?

- Ben's moving out.
- Oh, Callie...

He won't believe me.

What are you gonna do?

I can't keep it.

I mean, it can't be Ben's.

I just don't...

I just don't understand.

Something very strange
is happening to all of us, Callie.

You know, they say the...

the Roberts girl is a virgin.

[Callie] What are you going to do?

I don't know.

I don't know.

[eerie whispers]

[groans]

[transcendental music]

[whimpers]

[baby crying]

[heartbeats]

Hey.

- You all right?
- Yeah.

[exhales]
Yeah. It was just a dream.

Okay.
[smooches]

- Come on, let's go back to sleep, huh?
- Mm.

[phone ringing]

[doctor 1] What's going on, Doctor?

Nothing.

They have apparently decided
to keep their babies.

[doctor 1] All of them?

Why?

That's a very good question.

[gentle music]

[gentle music continues]

[tense music]

- [nurse 1] Okay, I got her at 90 over 60...
- [woman 4] Nurse!

[women grunting, panting]

[nurse 2] Keep pushing! Good!

[nurse 3] All right, Mom. Okay.
Here we go. Here we go. Almost done.

- [nurse 4] Good, Mom. That's good.
- [Alan] Push, push, push, push!

[screaming]

[Alan] That's it. That's it.

[nurse 5] You're doing great!
Take a deep breath.

Deep breath and push!

- [Alan] Push, push, push! Come on.
- Push!

- Come with that.
- [nurse 6] Okay.

[Alan] Push a little more.

- Push, Barbara, push. Big breaths.
- A little more. A little more.

- Oh, it hurts.
- Push, Sarah. Now, push. Push.

[panicked breathing]

Help me! Help me! Help me!
Help me! Help me!

We've got a problem!

- [Melanie crying]
- ICU, now!

[overlapping shouts]

- [Alan] Come on! Come on! Come, come.
- Push, push, push!

- [Alan] Yeah! There we go!
- Good, Barbara!

- [Alan] And there we go.
- [groans]

Ah, beauty! You feel great to me.

[nurse 7] Good job.

- Is it all right?
- It's a girl. It's a girl, honey.

- And she's fine.
- It's a girl?

- Push!
- [yells]

[doctor 2] Yes! There we are.
There we are. Clamp this.

[nurse 8] Look, here's your baby.
Here's your baby, Mom.

- [exclaims]
- [panting]

- Oh, god!
- [baby crying]

- Okay, come here.
- Oh, my god.

- Oh, my god.
- He's beautiful.

[babies crying]

[dramatic music]

Ben...

[Verner] Come on, honey,
just breathe when... Oxygen. Oxygen.

- [indistinct chatter]
- [whimpers]

[Verner] Come on, sweetie, you can do it.

Push. Doctor, do you think you could
get your a*s over here and help me?

- [doctor 3] Yes, Dr. Verner.
- Push! Bear down on her! Push!

All right, here it comes.
Here... here we go! Here we go!

Come on now, push! Give me one big push!

Come on, here we go! Here we go!
Come on! Come on!

[exhales]

I'm sorry. It's... it's stillborn.

[weeping]

- [Verner] Get some fluid in her.
- [doctor 3] Yes, Dr. Verner.

- [technician] We need another clamp here.
- Here, honey, hold it. Then we'll put it...

[nervous breathing]

[tense music fading]

[ominous music]

[puffs]

Hey. How are we doing?
Everything all right?

We lost the Roberts baby.

- Oh, god. How?
- Respiratory failure.

Umbilical asphyxia.

[ominous music continues]

Where did you take the baby?

I saw you take
Melanie's baby outside there.

Yes, I took the baby for an autopsy.

I didn't want the other mothers to see.

[foreboding music]

I baptize thee in the name of the Father,

and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Got you. Got you. Got you.

- [baby crying]
- Oh, hey.

[George] Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you
that by the water of the Holy Spirit,

you have bestowed upon these,
your servants, the forgiveness of sin,

and have raised them
to the new life of grace.

Sustain them, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit.

Give them an inquiring
and discerning heart,

the courage to will and to persevere,
the spirit to know and to love you,

and the gift of wonder and joy
in all your work. Amen.

[all in unison] Amen.

- Hey, there.
- [baby coos]

Yeah.

There you go.

Good girl.

That's a good girl. Yeah.

Note how the section of hair is flat
on one side, then arced on the other.

- Mm-hm.
- Like a capital "D".

Right.

The texture is...
I don't know. It's unusually soft.

What did you think
when you looked at their nails?

Narrower than normal.

Any results yet from the DNA testing?

Common genetic characteristics.

Almost as if they are siblings
from the same parent.

But... It's way too early
to have anything conclusive.

Hey, baby.

[Jill] What you doing?

[blocks clacking]

[suspenseful music]

"David."

You can spell your name.

[chuckles]

How can you spell your name?

Huh?

How can Mommy's...

smart little boy spell his name?

[water boiling]

- [Mara whimpers]
- [thuds]

Sweetie, was the soup too hot?

[high-pitched whirring]

Okay, baby, we're gonna
go see our friend, Mara.

[exhales]

- [water boiling]
- [nervous exhale]

[high-pitched whirring]

- [Jill] Okay.
- [knocks on door]

[ominous music]

- [babbles]
- Yeah.

- [splash]
- [screams]

[Jill] Barbara?

Barbara?

God!

Barbara! Stop that! Calm down!

- [shrieks]
- Barbara! Are you crazy?

Barbara! Barbara? Barbara?

[Jill] Oh, god.

[Alan] Barbara.

Honey, can't you tell me what happened?

[suspenseful music]

[birds cawing]

[somber music]

[waves crashing]

[exhales]

[Alan] Barbara?

Barbara!

Barbara! Don't!

God, no!

Barbara!

[tense music]

[Bush] I understand there are some
recent developments at Midwich.

Yes.

The children are beginning to interact
more with the general community.

There have been a few casualties,
I should say accidents, suicides

that might be related
to contact with the children.

But no direct physical violence
was involved.

I have also been trying unsuccessfully

to get Dr. Chaffee
to come back on the program.

[Bush] His daughter's
the leader, isn't she?

He's probably got his hands full.

[Verner] Personal considerations
aren't important, are they?

I think that the opportunity to study
these children should take precedent

over any considerations.

Let's cut to the chase here.

It is now of interest to national security

that we continue to carefully monitor
their developing powers.

I ask for another year's grant.

[ominous music]

[ominous music continues]

Good afternoon, children.
[puffs]

Mara, why do you smile?

You're trying to hide
your thoughts from us.

Oh...

- Well, just how deeply do you see?
- Everything active in your mind.

But the process that leads
to the spoken words eludes us.

Why do you speak some thoughts
and not others?

Wouldn't it be a noisy world
if we said everything we thought?

Okay, I'm gonna put a drop
of this in your eyes.

- It won't hurt.
- [liquid squirts]

[high-pitched whirring]

[clanks]

[rattles]

[pained scream]

I'm sorry. Calm down!
I'm gonna wash your eye out!

[eye doctor] Shush. Okay,
open your eyes! It's all right!

- It's okay! It's okay!
- [screaming continues]

[high-pitched whirring]

[eerie music]

[door thuds]

[high-pitched whirring]

[loud whooshing]

[suspenseful music]

[gasps]

[screams]

[siren wailing]

[ominous music]

[George] How's the doctor?

Corneal scarring.
Most likely permanent blindness.

- How did it happen?
- Doesn't remember much.

It will be listed as an accident.

It was the children.

There's no proof of that.

What I wanna know is,
are the people in this town safe?

- What are they gonna do to us?
- [Jill] Alan.

- Hi.
- [Jill] This has got to stop.

They don't belong in regular classes.

It's getting dangerous,
the other children can't learn.

I was thinking maybe you could teach them.

They seem to respect you.

"Respect"?

No, they even don't know
the meaning of that word.

Why bother?

It doesn't make any difference what we do.

Alan, we need you.

What am I gonna teach them?

What am I possibly going to teach them?

Humanity.

Humanity...

Hello, sweetheart.

Come on.

[gentle music]

There's no need for you
to become emotional.

I'm old enough to do things by myself.

Hey, David.

Do you wanna talk about
what happened at the clinic today?

Why should I be experiencing emotion
at this moment?

[Jill] Well...

What is that word you're thinking?

[David] What is "empathy"?

So, if I have felt pain,

I should be able to identify
with others who feel pain.

[Jill] Yeah. Yes.

Yeah.

Good night, David.

[suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music continues]

[sighs]

What's the matter?

- Want some?
- [liquid burbles]

I'm sorry.

[deep inhale, exhale]

I just can't hack it.

[tense music]

[g*nsh*t]

[foreboding music]

[George] God said,
"Let us make man in our image...

after our likeness."

But "image" does not mean outer image

or every statue
or photograph would be man.

It means the inner image.

The spirit, the soul.

So we gather here today
to remember the inner beauty...

of one who lost her hold.

Melanie Roberts...

somehow lost that image
of herself as a creature

made in God's bountiful spirit.

But what of those in our midst...

who do not have individual souls...

or spirits?

They have one mind
that they share between them.

One spirit!

And they have the look of man...

but not the nature of mankind.

[Alan] David.

What are you doing here?

[David] Looking for the baby.

The one who was born with us.

The one who died.

How do you know about that?

The baby's not here. She was taken away.

Where?

I don't know.

Do you have a memory of the baby?

[Alan] But it bothers you.

It hurts. It hurts to lose a loved one.

She was to be with me.

We were to be together.

How do you know that?

You've lost someone, too.

[wind whistles]

[light music]

[Alan] Listen. I think I can teach them.

Well, anyway, I'll try.

[heavy sigh]

I never told David about the Roberts baby.

Right.

And then, and then, he said,
"She was to be with me"?

What did that mean?

[sighs]
I don't know.

Are they paired up? Like a mate?

[foreboding music]

[sighs]

Well, what can I teach
such bright young students?

[Alan] What about human physiology?

That's at least something
that I know a little bit about, hmm?

For example, does anybody here know
how the eye works?

- Do you mean how do we see, or...
- Well, what else can the eye do?

- The eyes are...
- The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Yes. That's right, Mara.
I see that you've been reading Proverbs.

I was speaking to Robert.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Right.

All right, if you'd rather talk about
philosophy instead of physiology,

- let's, let's talk about the soul.
- [Jill] Alan. Sorry.

Can you come to my office
for a minute, please?

- [clicks]
- [Alan] Um, yes. I'll be right there.

All right, children. While I'm away,
for just a moment,

why don't you each take out
a volume of the encyclopedia...

[books thud]

[pages rustling]

...and try to learn a little something
about our culture.

[door squeaks]

[door slams]

I know your game.

I know what you're up to.

[Carlton] Ever since you got here,
I've been watching.

Watching people leave this town.

Watching things die.

You ain't right. None of you.

One of these days, somebody's
gonna do something about it.

I don't like the way
you're looking at me, boy.

[chuckles]

I got a g*n, too,
and I'm not the only one.

One day, somebody's
gonna get up on a rooftop,

and they're gonna start
picking you little b*stards off.

- One by one by one.
- [thwacks]

[eerie music]

Well, ain't you gonna do something?

Ain't you gonna bawl
like all the other little pissants?

Well, do something, damn it!

[high-pitched whirring]

[high-pitched whirring]

[high-pitched whirring intensifies]

[tense music]

[warbling]

- [glass shatters]
- [groans]

[panting]

[gasps]

[whispers]
God.

[gentle music]

[paper rustles]

There are going to be changes.

Oh, god.

God help us.

The children did it. I know they did it.

And my daughter was involved.

Now, who are they?

I had originally thought
they were some form of mutation.

Some abrupt evolutionary jump.

It was their communal consciousness,
but I couldn't explain the blackout.

Or the mass pregnancies.

[Verner] Midwich isn't
the only colony of such children.

[drawer opens, closes]

In a township in northern Australia,


They all died within ten hours of birth.

In an Inuit community
outside of Anchorage,

a group of ten children were born.

There were 20 births in a small village
near the Turkish-Iranian border.

Each location was remote,

isolated, and each had a blackout
the same as Midwich.

And how long have you known about this?

The way I see it,
there's three possibilities.

Number one, parthenogenesis.

[Verner] The development
of a fetus without fertilization.

I know. I don't buy that, either.

Number two, we do know the CIA
slipped large doses of LSD to men

without them knowing it

in order to study the effects
of psychotropes on gene structure.

So maybe the government
engineered the blackout,

and then they artificially inseminated
your women with super sperm.

First, they knocked them out,
then they knocked them up.

[deep breath]

And what's the third possibility?

Xenogenesis. Implantation.

The production of an offspring
unlike that of the parent.

Or should I say host?

[ominous music]

[light clinks]

[light switch clicks]

[water dripping]

[soft ringing]

Come back to the project, Alan.

Not just a matter
of protecting your daughter.

As you can see,
it goes far, far beyond that.

[Verner] You have to put this
in the back of your mind.

Don't even think about it
when you're around the children.

- Don't ever let them know that you know.
- Why didn't you tell us?

- I mean, why didn't you warn us?
- [Verner] Because I couldn't.

Well, I couldn't, Alan!

If anybody else knew,
the children would know.

Look, I have spent years of my life
building a wall around this.

Hiding it, so they couldn't read
what was in my mind.

But as their powers grow stronger,
they just keep looking deeper and deeper.

I need your help, Alan.
Would you please just...

Come back to the project.

[engine starts]

[somber music]

[car door closes]

[bags clatter]

[Mara] We've made our decision.

Discussion will not change our plans.

We will live in the abandoned barn
outside of town.

You will bring us supplies.

You can't stop us, you know.

Don't try.

You've been discussing us with Dr. Verner.

What did she tell you?

You are hiding something.

[ominous music]

[engines humming]

[sighs]

- [seat belt clicks]
- I'm not letting you go.

- You haven't been given an option.
- [Jill] Have you?

You know, you don't always have
to do everything they tell you.

- [David] We are the same.
- No. You're not.

You're David. You're different.

[foreboding music]

I've come to get Julie. Have you seen her?

Is she at the barn?

Fine.

[tires screech]

[car door opens]

Are you all right?

I'm sorry.

[Ben] You're okay, aren't you?

Julie doesn't want to come with you.

Well, damn it, I don't care
what Julie wants. Her mother's frantic.

I'm bringing her home.

[high-pitched whirring]

[eerie music]

[engine starts]

[high-pitched whirring intensifies]

[engine revs]

[expl*si*n]

[sirens wailing]

Some kind of big accident, Doc!
Out by the barn.

[Verner] Alan, wait!

Alan, I was just informed
that the other towns

with blackout children
have been destroyed.

What? All of them?

And everyone in them,
the adults and the children.

They couldn't evacuate

without the children
knowing what was happening.

- The governments gave no warning.
- God. What about Midwich?

[Verner] I've been told
to pack and get out.

I'm leaving tonight, Alan.
Do the same. Get out while you can!

[Alan] Another man is dead.

Why do you hate us so much, Mara?

[Mara] It isn't a matter of hate.
It is a biological obligation.

You are thinking
of what happened to the others.

Then our actions shouldn't surprise you.

We have to survive
no matter what the cost.

We are the only ones left now.

[Alan] Well, I don't see why we
can't reach an understanding.

Then why can't we just live together?

If we coexist, we shall dominate you.
That is inevitable.

[Mara] Eventually,
you will try to eliminate us.

We are all creatures of the life force.

Now it has set us at one another
to see who will survive.

[scoffs]

- That's a cruel sport.
- [Mara] Life is cruelty.

We all feed on each other,
exploit each other in some way to survive.

I don't agree with you.

[Alan] I think that adaptation
is the key to survival.

Cooperation and symbiosis and compassion!

Why do you think your own survival
depends upon emotion from us?

Should we pity you?
Empathize with your plight?

You should feel!

You should feel something!

Without feelings, you're nothing!

You're just second-rate mimics
of a higher organism.

[Alan] That's right, a higher organism.

We're your superiors
in our capacity to love.

Without compassion,
you're a doomed species.

Emotion is irrelevant.
It is not our nature.

Well, I'm not so sure
you're right about that, Mara.

Still, you are aware
of the other colonies.

So you must be, in some basic sense,
aware of who, what we are.

Yes.

So the question becomes,
should you be allowed to live?

[waves crashing]

You're suddenly thinking of an ocean.

[waves crashing]

You're blocking your thoughts
rather effectively with this image.

We must leave here, spread out, disperse.

[Mara] Soon, we will have reached a stage
where we can form new colonies.

You will arrange a method
of getting us away from here.

What if I refuse you?

You are a prisoner of your values,
and you won't be able to deceive us.

[Mara] You know that, don't you?

Father?

Yes, yes. Yes, I know that, Mara.

Make your arrangements.
We must leave tonight.

[gentle music]

You're thinking of the one who died.

[David] She was to be my partner.

Yes, it's true.

Without a mate,
you are of less importance to us.

[Mara] And your development
of emotions is disturbing.

We can't leave you behind, David.

It is time we resolve this.

[tense music]

[eerie whispers]

[ominous music]

[loud zap]

[warbling]

[zaps]

[g*nsh*t]

[man 4] Hurry up!

[Sarah] "Look on everyone
who is proud, and bring him low,

and tread down the wicked
where they stand!"

- This is the last of it.
- All right, get going.

[Sarah] "...bind their faces
in the world below.

Then will I also acknowledge to you

that your own right hand
can give you victory!"

[crowd cheering]

[villagers clamoring outside]

[gasps]

[hesitates]
I'm glad you're here. I...

I wanted to talk to you.
I really think that I can help you.

[high-pitched whirring]

- [crowd clamoring]
- [torches crackle]

[man 5] Send them
back to hell where they belong.

[indistinct yelling]

[Jill] You've got to stop! Please stop!

You got to stop! Sarah, please!

[suspenseful music]

[light switch clicks]

[eerie music]

[light switch clicks]

"Hast thou eyes of flesh!

Dost thou see as man sees?"

[high-pitched whirring]

[tense music]

[tense music continues]

[flames roaring]

[high-pitched whirring]

[eerie music]

[zipper rasps]

[high-pitched whirring]

[high-pitched whirring]

[squelching]

[pained gasp]

[loud zap]

[flesh squelching

[chokes]

[high-pitched humming]

[exhales]

[hammering]

[lock clanks]

[siren wailing in distance]

[grunts]

[car door closes]

[sheriff] A state of emergency
has been declared.

Please return to your homes
and remain there until further notice.

[Jill panting]

- [woman 5] Come here! Grab my hand, quick!
- [man 6] Come on!

[sheriff] Clear the streets!
Unauthorized people will be arrested.

Authorized vehicles...

This is a state of emergency.

- [tires screech]
- [engine stops]

[somber music]

[keys jingling]

[lock clicks open]

- [panting]
- [phone clacking]

Oh, please be home.

[approaching footsteps]

Alan, the children m*rder*d Sarah.

Susan Verner, too.

- [Jill gasps]
- I just found her at the clinic.

The State police
are on their way out to the barn.

They're going after the children.
We've got to stop them.

[Alan] No, we can't go out there.

You can't go out there.
You'll just get hurt.

- We've got to try!
- No, no, Jill.

The state police can't do anything to stop
the children. It'll be a bloodbath.

- We have to try...
- [Alan] No, Jill! Jill, now, listen to me.

Listen to me.

There's another way.

Now, look, something happened today.

I was able to block Mara
from reading my thoughts.

- How?
- I suddenly thought of the ocean.

I suddenly saw the view
in front of our house.

You know how Barbara and I
used to... dream our dreams there?

[Alan] We used to stand
on the cliffside, and right there,

right in front of us was something
so much more powerful than we'll ever be.

And that image came to me.

That image came to me,
and they couldn't see past it.

Now I know I can do that again.
I can build a wall.

I can build a wall and I can deceive them.

[smooches]

What are you gonna do?

The only thing that we can do.

[lock clicking]

No! No! Not David!

He's not one of them! No!
[thumping]

[pages rustle]

[siren wailing in distance]

[ominous music]

[tires screech]

[dispatcher] ...seventeen.

- All units respond and echo your 10-4.
- [r*fle reloads]

[dispatcher] Multiple suspects,
possible 4-17, all units responding.

And echo your 10-40.

Forty-one-A?

Forty-one-A, do you copy?

- Echo, 41-A. Do you copy?
- Okay. We're in position. Send them in.

[dispatcher] Roger, this is 52-A. I copy.
Two-forty-one in progress. Stand by.

[tense music]

Two-forty-one in progress.
Seven-three East Springdale.

-All units code three. Nine-eleven
-[loud whooshing]

Emergency vehicles are stat, 37-B.
Needs stat on suspect.

- East End, do you copy?
- What are you waiting for?

You got your orders!

- [g*nsh*t]
- [glass shatters]

[tense music]

- [helicopter whirring]
- [g*nshots]

- [expl*si*n]
- [tires screech]

[g*nshots continue]

[loud crash]

[loud zapping]

- [c*ck r*fle]
- [officer 3] We're dead, Amstek. Get out!

- Oh, god.
- [g*nsh*t]

- [g*nsh*t]
- [groans]

[loud zap]

[g*nshots continue]

- [helicopter whirring]
- [eerie shrill]

[low humming]

[expl*si*n]

[glass shatters]

- [g*nf*re]
- [loud crash]

[g*nf*re continues]

[loud zap]

[b*ll*ts ricochet]

[exhales]

[panting]

- [keys jangle]
- [bag thuds]

[ominous music]

[ominous music continues]

[timer clicking]

More death.

Survival.

Tell us what arrangements
you have made for us.

Well, I haven't had much time.

It is 11:22.

What are you anxious about?

[exhales]
The arrangements...

Um... Oh, yes. Actually, I, um...

[tapping]
...I left my notebook out in the car.

I wonder if somebody could go out
and, uh, get my notebook

from the front seat of my car. David?

No.

[clears throat]

[loud slash]

I am unable to see what you're thinking.

[deep inhale]
Well, I'm just... just wondering

who's gonna go out
and get the notebook from my car.

- David.
- No.

[loud slash]

You are successfully
blocking your thoughts.

[metals clanking]

[Alan sighs]

[loud whoosh]

You are thinking...

of a brick wall.

[suspenseful music]

[Mara] Why do you keep
looking at the clock?

[suspenseful music continues]

David...

Come on.

- We're going now.
- Mother, no.

[high-pitched whirring]

Take your place.

[high-pitched whirring]

[groaning]

[groaning]

[sighs]

Stop it! Leave her alone!

Jill, take him! Take him! Go now! Go!

[Alan groaning]

[suspenseful music]

God!

[suspenseful music continues]

[high-pitched whirring]

[grunts]

[zaps]

[wall cracking]

[rumbling]

[suspenseful music continues]

[loud expl*si*n]

[loud expl*si*n continues]

[dramatic music]

[whooshes]

Don't worry, David.

We'll go someplace
where nobody knows who we are.

[dramatic music]

[suspenseful music]