These Are the Damned

Name: These Are the Damned
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Released: July 7, 1965
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alexander Knox, Brian Oulton, James Villiers, Kenneth Cope, Macdonald Carey

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Columbia Pictures Corporation | Release Date: July 7, 1965 | Approved

Starring: Alexander Knox, Brian Oulton, James Villiers, Kenneth Cope, Macdonald Carey, Oliver Reed, Shirley Anne Field, Tom Kempinski, Viveca Lindfors, Walter Gotell

Summary: An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

Director: Joseph Losey

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 87 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

More than an interesting curiosity, it's one of Losey's best English efforts, and Viveca Lindfors contributes a striking part as an eccentric sculptress. Read full review

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Although the cast is excellent, no one character dominates the action or overshadows the others. Joseph Losey's hand is so apparent that the film's considerable effectiveness must be accredited to him as must its few faults and the fearsome message it conveys. Read full review

Eugene Archer

Mr. Losey, proceeding with grim logic toward his apocalyptic climax, has made a strong comment about the nuclear age—while arrestingly demonstrating just how much a gifted filmmaker can accomplish with limited means. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

One of the best British science-fiction films and one of the most controversial. Read full review

Richard Brody

Losey’s strongest critique of the times emerges with a unique stylistic flourish in his wide-screen, black-and-white images, featuring slow glides, skewed angles, standoffish perspectives, and hectic striations. These images seem adorned with quotation marks, as if Losey placed his own movie in the mediatized madness that he was criticizing. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The performances are universally weak, and Losey's clearly ambivalent attitude towards the demands of the genre ensures that the film is never exciting. But as an ambitious oddity, it exerts not a little fascination. Read full review

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