Village of the Damned (1995)

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Year:	1995
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	John Carpenter
Genre:	Spooky children remake
Starring:	Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Mark Hamill
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114852/
Tagline:	Beware the Children
Favourite line:	"If we coexist, we shall dominate you. That is inevitable."

This is rubbish.
Or so I had been led to believe by a bunch of clowns that wouldn't know a good creepfest if it snuck up behind them wearing a gimp mask.
A remake of a classic 1960 movie I am yet to see, and based on a John Wyndham novel, this is nothing if not spooky.
Midwich is a small village in America (England in the novel, but this has to be tranposed to America to allow dim-witted rednecks to understand it) and, one day, all the townsfolk as well as their livestock mysteriously pass out. During the blackout, all of the women of child producing age fall pregnant and give birth on the same day to children that are, erm, a little different. These kids have powers and, crucially a total lack of compassion.
Slaying anyone who crosses their path, it isn't long before it's the offspring against the grown folk.

Heavily influenced by the original, at least stylistically (heh, shut up you, I've seen the stills), this is genuinely disturbing, and the children come across as a right little bunch of barsteds.
Carpenter is always effective when handling low gore, high tension horror, and this is no exception.
An efficient chiller.