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'Come At Your Own Risk ... If You Come Alone!' A Hammer production directed by Joseph Losey, in which a story of adolescent thugs, led by Oliver Reed, combines with a disturbing science fiction story about the government raising radioactive children to populate the earth after the bomb.
Stylish, bewildering, thought-provoking, cryptic, apocalyptic and (maybe) even a touch pretentious, there are precious few movies like The Damned. That it was produced by the venerable but conservative Hammer Studios only adds to the fun, for it is like nothing else they ever produced. Horrified by Joseph Losey's oblique first cut, the studio mucked about with it, trying to tame it into something more conventional. They did not succeed.
With Oliver Reed, Shirley Anne Field, MacDonald Carey.
Available for just £12.99 including p&p. Features a 24 page illustrated booklet with film notes by Hammer Films' historian Marcus Hearn.
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