

The Damned
Children of Ice And Darkness! They Are the Lurking Unseen Evil You Dare Not Face Alone!
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $500K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- government
- experiment
- radioactivity
- youth gang
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR7 Jun 1965
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical20 May 1963
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical16 Nov 1962
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The Damned was released on 16 November 1962.
Audience reviews
3- J9/10
John Chard
7/21/2019
I live with one fact. A power has been released that will melt these stones. We must be ready when the time comes. The Damned (AKA: These Are The Damned) is directed by Joseph Losey and adapted to screenplay by Evan Jones from the novel The Children of Light written by H.L. Lawrence. It stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Viveca Lindfors and Walter Gotell. Music is by James Bern…
- W7/10
Wuchak
9/24/2021
_**Maybe not great, but an inspired, if downbeat, early 60’s curiosity from Hammer**_ On the southern coast of England, a gang of hooligans led by a man named King (Oliver Reed) harass an American yachtsman (Macdonald Carey) and a sculptor living on the shoreline (Viveca Lindfors). Shirley Anne Field plays the gang leader’s sister who attracts the yachtsman. All of them are about to learn the secret of the mysteri…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/19/2024
To be fair to this, it probably ought to be watched with an eye to the times it was made - at the height of the cold war, coupled with some adventurously far-fetched science fiction and a fair smattering of state.media-sponsored paranoia. A lot of Oliver Reed's roles in the 1960s saw him as the charismatic leader of a gang of miscreants, and this is not really any different. When "Joan" (Shirley Anne Field) hooks up …
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