What Happened To John Carpenter's Village of the Damned?

Lost in the shuffle of 90s Carpenter in the remake of “Village of the Damned,” the 1960 chiller that was an adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel “The Midwich Cuckoos.” If there’s one movie in Carpenter’s filmography that hasn’t built up a following of any significance, it’s this one, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth another look - especially for those of us who’ve really only seen it the one time. And on that note, how and why did this remake go awry? Hide the children - especially the white-haired ones - because we’re going to find out just What Happened to John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned.