Saturday, January 28, 2017

These Are the Damned (1962)

Nice Looking B&W Sci-Fi

Simon Wells is an American tourist and falls for a young lady named Joan. Joan has many problems, one of her biggest problems is her brother King that is the leader of a youth gang. King disliked Simon, Joan ended up on Simon's boat and they landed on a military island. Simon ends up on the island searching for Simon and Joan. They end up running into a pack of very polite but strange children. Prying into what is going on, the 3 adults learn the kids are the subject of a government experiment.

It's an artsy fartsy film with with an underlying social commentary of what was going on during the time era (namely the youth gangs). I found it an okay film - it's not awful. It was slow and draggy at times other times sorta faster paced. The film took a long while to get to the heart of the matter which are the children in the facility... that messed up the film for me.

I agree that Oliver Reed was a very nice looking man and he did played the role of King quite well - he was really the highlight of the entire movie.

6/10

These Are the Damned (1962)

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