Rate VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995)

I agree, the little boy, David, was very well cast. And that part was written much more sympathetically than in the 1960 version. That's one of the reasons I liked the 1995 ending more.

I also agree that the scene with the woman putting her hand in the boiling water was very disturbing. As was the scene with the ophthalmologist putting the caustic liquid in her eye. Both scenes well-acted and well-directed. BUT, the way some of those kinds of scenes were written didn't quite make sense. They should have had the children attacking village people who were purposefully doing things to harm them, rather than accidentally or unintentionally doing things that might be harmful to them. On the one hand, we're supposed to see these children as extremely rational and self-interested. But on the other, the children were ready to kill or maim some people who were trying to help them but accidentally hurt them. (There was some of this in the 1960 version too.) It made sense when the children were just babies or toddlers and wouldn't have known better, but not when they were older.

And the scene with the ophthalmologist was kind of ridiculous because why would an ophthalmologist have kept such a dangerous chemical in an eyedropper bottle so close to the other eyedropper bottle, where they could easily be confused?