NationalAutomaticDoorDay &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:NationalAutomaticDoorDay @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:34:28 +0200 The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-damned-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" National Automatic Door Day/div div class="img" The Damned (1962)/div div class="caption" An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.\ "I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!" ### – King\ ##### The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control. &nbsp; They are the damned./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)

Mar

19

National Automatic Door Day

The Damned (1962)

An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant.

An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.

“I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!”

– King

The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control.

 

They are the damned.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½

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