Children of the Damned

Children of the Damned (1964) is a British science-fiction chiller you can watch online on iFILM. Psychologist Tom Llewellyn and geneticist David Neville test a gifted London boy named Paul, and the numbers they get back simply make no sense.

Five more turn up soon after — children scattered across continents, of different races and languages, yet sharing one inhumanly high intelligence and an eerie bond. They read minds and bend adults to their will. The army sees a weapon, the scientists see a riddle, and the six children just want to be left alone, huddling together inside a bombed-out church.

A follow-up to Village of the Damned directed by Anton Leader, the picture pushes past its predecessor and asks not what these kids are but who the real monster is — the children, or the grown men with guns. A cold, sharp black-and-white sci-fi that outlived most of its audience without dating. Stream Children of the Damned (1964) online on iFILM.