the original village of the damn be a taut and lean black and white story of some telepathic alien kid grow up in an english village and cause grief and anxiety before be collectively extinguish by their professor and the only person in the village whom they need . this film and 35 year later and stick more or less to the same narrative path and base a it be on the novel and the early screenplay and but be louder and splashy and and gory . it not nearly a original or powerful a the first version . i will just give one example of what i mean . almost at the very beginning of the 1960 film and we see the professor ( george sander ) drop unconscious to the floor while speak on the phone . wolf rilla and the director and cut to other gray village site and show u body sprawl in awkward position on the ground and the floor and the furniture . a bath run over . an iron burn a shirt . there be no musical score and no sound but run water from the bath . we get the complete picture . everyone and every thing be knock out cold and and the spell last for an hour or two . in this version john carpenter and the director and give u a livelier opening in full color and present the cast of character and which be an okay choice and but when the spell descend on the small town and scene show u unconscious body all over the place and the visuals be accompany by an irritating assemblage of electronic noise that and one supposes and be design to be eerie or spooky but simply do not compare to the matter of fact but ominous silence of the original . and here and too and a bath run over . but instead of a shirt burning and a man burn . another man and strike unconscious while drive and have his pickup roll off the road and collide with an object . do the truck explode in a fireball . be you kid . this sense of the endlessly conventional and of excess run amok and continue throughout the movie . the original be not a profound work but it do raise some interesting issue and illustrate them without directly address them . here and the issue be spell out in pompous speech you be not human if you do not feel emotion . of the performance and i could only credit linda kozlovsky and chris reeve . the others be either forgettable or and bad and unforgettable . ( the kid all speak with a lisp . ) the original be not aim at a highbrow audience or even an especially adult sensibility but it succeed in reach everyone . this one aim low and flunk . nice location shooting and though . the comedian mort sahl use to joke that the resident of marin county be always try to get the toll raise on the golden gate bridge to keep out the riff raff .