My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Schedule
Thu Aug 21 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Fontaine's | London, EN
“A young woman falls in love with a man who may be insane” is Wikipedia’s ultra-terse synopsis for My Blood Runs Cold. If that sounds relatable, then do I have the film for you! Join us on Thursday 21 August when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents this 1965 supernatural Gothic psychodrama about reincarnation at Fontaine’s in Dalston! Wilful, tempestuous 21-year-old socialite Julie Merriday (pout-y sex kitten Joey Heatherton) is the wild child of Maine’s patrician old-money Merriday family. “If you don’t put a rein on that child, she’ll wind up in the morgue!” Aunt Sarah (Jeanette Nolan) snaps to Julie’s father Julian (Barry Sullivan), before rebuking Julie herself, “In less than a year you’ve wrecked a motorboat AND a car!” True to form, one day Julie runs a motorcyclist off the road while driving recklessly in her sports car. The biker is a moody, enigmatic loner called Ben Gunther (hunky male starlet Troy Donahue). The mutual attraction is instant (even though Julie is engaged to staid, respectable Harry (Nicolas Coster), who works in her father’s law firm). So far, so Lana Del Rey song, but Ben keeps calling Julie “Barbara Merriday” – the name of her great, great grandmother from 100 years earlier! In fact, he’s convinced they knew each other in a different life. What happens next? Join us 21 August at Fontaine’s to find out! Drinking Fontaine’s excellent range of cocktails will help make My Blood Runs Cold make a lot more sense! Reserve a seat NOW by emailing [email protected]
Lobotomy Room is the FREE monthly film club devoted to cinematic perversity! Third Thursday night of every month downstairs at Fontaine’s cocktail lounge in Dalston. Numbers are limited, so reserve your seat via Fontaine’s website: https://www.fontaines.bar/events/ Alternatively, phone 07718000546 or email [email protected]. The film starts at 8:30 pm. Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8:00 pm. To ensure everyone is seated and cocktails are ordered on time, please arrive by 8:15 pm at the latest.
