No one can accomplish anything alone. It takes many hands to make something worthwhile. Movies are no different. One of the best things about film is that so many people work together to make it the best piece of art possible.

As the director of Village of the Damned as well as a co-writer of the screenplay, Wolf Rilla was involved in the film in more than a few ways.

Writer Stirling Silliphant originally wrote the script for Village of the Damned. Rilla became involved once it was decided that filming would be moved to the UK.

“I was handed the script of Village of the Damned which Sterling Silliphant had written," said Rilla during an interview with Fangoria. "When I read the script, I realized that it needed a lot of work to make it realistic. It was written by an American who had not gained a great deal of knowledge concerning English village life; it just rang false.”

Rilla approached the script differently than Siliphant had, adding his own personal spin on the film.

"What I tried to do was to make it as realistic, almost documentary, as possible," said Rilla. "We shot that in a very low-key documentary manner. It made, I think, the weird happenings even stranger. I remember having some arguments with the studio heads about the approach to the film."

Shooting a "low-key" horror film might feel counterproductive, but Rilla believed that the subdued tone of the film would make the actual plot seem much, much scarier.

"I felt convinced that the very best way to approach this kind of subject was by taking a very cool, a very unsensational look at it," said Rilla. "It seemed to me the horrors were so much more horrible because they were normal. I wanted the children to look nice, to be apparently very pleasant - that makes their behavior much more frightening."