On this day in 1985, we were welcomed to Fright Night… for real! This toothy talkie paid homage to Hammer’s fang-bangers while simultaneously updating them for the Eldritch Eighties! It treated us to some of the creepiest (and yuppiest) vamps in Filmland and gave Roddy McDowall a career-best performance as Peter Vincent, the actor/ho-rror ho-st who’s thrust into a real-life conflict between the living and dead. Brilliant effects and ‘80s ambiance give an already-potent yelp-yarn extra bite, and the humor serves the ho-rror perfectly. Still one of the best monster movies of the 1980s, Fright Night is a night to remember. You’re so cool, Fright Night!
On this day, 1 June 1985, British police brutally attacked people heading to Stonehenge in the “Battle of the Beanfield”. Police smashed the windows of vehicles the travellers and others were using, dragged people out through the broken glass, beating them and breaking teeth, glasses and bones. They arrested 420 people, the biggest mass arrest of civilians in hundreds of years, systematically looted, smashed and burned travellers’ homes and 7 dogs were killed by the RSPCA. Authorities at the time were determined to destroy Britain’s traveller communities. This is a short account of what happened: https://libcom.org/history/1985-battle-beanfieldhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1136147589903723/?type=3
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