John Carpenter's Village of the Damned is an English language 1995 science fiction–horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is marketed with the tagline "Beware the children."

A remake of the 1960 film of the same name, both based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. This version is a heavily Americanised version, while the book and original film were both set in Great Britain.

It stars Christopher Reeve (in what would be his last leading role in a feature film before the horse riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his life), Kirstie Alley and Mark Hamill. This movie stood out from the original due to its incorporation of graphic violence, with depictions of such things as a man falling asleep on a barbecue grill and a woman (the governement doctor and analyst Susan Verner, played by Kirstie Alley) eviscerating herself.

The children are much more explicitly alien than in the original film. A preserved alien foetus is shown, the children become more alien-looking as they use their powers at greater intensity. Also, a degree of conspiracy theory permeates the storyline. It is implied that the American government is willing to allow the children to grow to adulthood regardless of how many murders the children commit, according to Susan's words.

The American village of Midwich is visited by some unknown life form which leaves ten women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born. At first, they all appear normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human.

The 1995 film differs from the earlier adaptation in that one of the children (David, child of the local school teacher Jill McGowan, played by Linda Kozlowski) loses his "partner" after she dies at birth (in fact, her corpse is the preserved alien foetus). As a consequence, he shows human compassion, though still resembles the other children and retains some degree of psychic powers. This leads to his not fitting in well with the children, who consider him a traitor, or villagers, who think of him as a monster. It also leads to conflict between Jill and the local medic, Alan Chaffee (played by Christopher Reeve), whose "daughter" Mara is the leader of the children.

In the end, David and Jill survive after a horrible night that includes the deaths of many people, including Alan and the other children (as in the original 1960 version, Alan hides a timebomb in a briefcase, thus baffling them all, and thereby tricks the kids into staying inside of the school and killing them, but also dies in the process). David and Jill leave the village.