The performances are universally weak, and Losey's clearly ambivalent attitude towards the demands of the genre ensures that the film is never exciting. But as an ambitious oddity, it exerts not a little fascination.
The Damned
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United Kingdom · 1963
1h 27m
Director Joseph Losey
Starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox
Genre Horror, Science Fiction
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Simon is an American visiting England. Joan is a youth gang member, who tricks the unsuspecting tourist into a violent mugging. Desperately wanting to leave the gang, Joan meets Simon again, and they run away together. At a nearby coast, the pair encounter a secret government facility creating radioactive children.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
More than an interesting curiosity, it's one of Losey's best English efforts, and Viveca Lindfors contributes a striking part as an eccentric sculptress.
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Losey’s strongest critique of the times emerges with a unique stylistic flourish in his wide-screen, black-and-white images, featuring slow glides, skewed angles, standoffish perspectives, and hectic striations. These images seem adorned with quotation marks, as if Losey placed his own movie in the mediatized madness that he was criticizing.
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