Village of the Damned
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
A village falls victim to a supernatural phenomenon. A few months later, twelve blond heads are born at the same moment, with particularly hostile intentions.
Wolf Rilla
Wolf Rilla is a British director of German origin, best known for his film Village of the Damned. He is the son of German actor Walter Rilla and Teresa Klausner. In 1934, the family emigrated to Great Britain, fleeing the rising tide of National Socialism, as Walter Rilla was of Jewish origin. After leaving school, Rilla worked at the BBC, where he directed the service's German-language propaganda programs. In the early 1950s, he worked as a scriptwriter and director for British cinema. Unlike his father, Wolf Rilla never returned to Germany. He retired to the south of France, where he became a hotel manager.
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