Melanie Daniels travels to Bodega Bay with two love-birds to woo Mitch Brenner who is there to see his family for the weekend. Unexpectedly, the local birds in the area begin to attack all of the human inhabitants of the area after her arrival. The Birds is one of those films that everyone has heard …
Continue reading Day 23- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Birds (1963)
Six people driving to a teaching conference in Atlanta are detoured through a town called Pleasant Valley. The town is holding its bicentennial celebrations and the new arrivals are greeted like guests of honour by the sheriff and townsfolk. Things take a turn for the worst though as they are dispatched one-by-one with the townsfolk …
Continue reading Day 22- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
A mother and daughter in law (named in the credits as 'older woman' and 'younger woman' respectively) are waiting for their son/husband to return from the war he's fighting in. A soldier named Hachi who fought alongside him comes back to tell them that in fact he saw him killed. He then starts having a …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 31- Onibaba (1964)
A sequel to Village of the Damned which is less a continuation of the plot and instead like a film containing characters who possess the same powers as the children in the original but under different circumstances. Whereas the original took part in a countryside idyll, the action within this film is based in London. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 18- Children of the Damned (1964)
A Hammer film that looks to Greek mythology for the basis of it's plot with the mythical creature known as The Gorgon (a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn anyone who looks her in the eye to stone) being adapted and shone through the Hammer Films' prism. This film features the …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 26- The Gorgon (1964)
Meathook Cinema 