The Damned story
The Damned (released as These Are the Damned in the USA) is a 1963 British science fiction film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors and Oliver Reed. Based on H.L. Lawrence's novel The Children of Light, it was a Hammer Film production.
8 total · 7 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brother and sister | major | Joan and her biker gang brother King. |
| controlling family member | major | Joan's biker gang brother King controlled her life. |
| coping with someone controlling your life | major | Joan was fed up with her biker gang brother controlling her life. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | A government scientist was raising nine ice cold, radioactive children for the purpose of repopulating the Earth in the event of a nuclear holocaust. |
| romantic love | major | Simon Wells and Joan. |
| secret government project | major | American tourist Simon Wells, Joan and her biker gang brother inadvertently get involved in a secret government project about making radioactive children. |
| the dangers of radioactivity | major | The government was experimenting with radioactive children. |
| sculpture | minor | Freya Neilson made enigmatic sculptures. |