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-o-border-radius: 10px;;" align="center"> <b>Movie Information</b> <table align="center" style="background: #FFFDF0; width: 100%; border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;"> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px"> Genre: </th> <td> Horror </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Country of origin: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> United Kingdom </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #e9d677;"> First appearance: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #e9d677;"> "<a href="/wiki/Wild_Barts_Can%27t_Be_Broken" title="Wild Barts Can't Be Broken">Wild Barts Can't Be Broken</a>" </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> <p><br /> <i><b>The Bloodening</b></i> is a British black-and-white horror movie that was shown at the <a href="/wiki/Springfield_Drive-In" title="Springfield Drive-In">Springfield Drive-In</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Plot"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Plot</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Reaction"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Reaction</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Behind_the_Laughter"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Behind the Laughter</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Appearances"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Appearances</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Plot">Plot</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/5/51/Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png/200px-Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/5/51/Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png/300px-Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/5/51/Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png/400px-Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png 2x" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Psychic_Child_-_The_Bloodening.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>One of the psychic children.</div></div></div> <p>The movie features four mysterious blonde-haired children with English accents and strange powers, including mind control, telepathy and telekinesis. When their powers activate, their eyes glow with a piercing blue color. </p><p>When the children first confront the townspeople, they reveal secrets such as the minister has been pilfering from the poor box, and the doctor and the bootblack are jointly having an affair with the fishwife. The townspeople then brandish weapons such as knives and pitchforks and start to attack the children. One of the boys says, "We can't have that," and the children's eyes begin to glow, causing the townspeople to start attacking each other with their own weapons. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reaction">Reaction</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reaction">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The kids of <a href="/wiki/Springfield" title="Springfield">Springfield</a>, after a town-wide curfew was enacted, snuck into the Drive-In to see this movie, which inspired them to get revenge on their parents by broadcasting their secrets over the radio. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Behind_the_Laughter">Behind the Laughter</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Behind the Laughter">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><i>The Bloodening</i> is a parody of the 1960 horror classic <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_the_Damned_(1960_film)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Village of the Damned (1960 film)">Village of the Damned</a></i>, which was based on the book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Midwich Cuckoos">The Midwich Cuckoos</a></i>.</li> <li>The film's trailer parodies a trailer of the New Zealand film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Braindead (film)">Braindead</a></i> (released as <i>Dead Alive</i> in North America).</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Appearances">Appearances</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Appearances">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_episodes" title="List of episodes"><img alt="The Saga of Carl - title screen.png" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e2/The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png/35px-The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png" width="35" height="20" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e2/The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png/53px-The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/e/e2/The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png/70px-The_Saga_of_Carl_-_title_screen.png 2x" /></a> <span style="top: -6px; position: relative;"><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_episodes" title="List of episodes">Episode</a></i> – "<a href="/wiki/Wild_Barts_Can%27t_Be_Broken" title="Wild Barts Can't Be Broken">Wild Barts Can't Be Broken</a>" <small></small></span></li></ul> <p><br /> </p>     </div><div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&oldid=1118959">https://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Bloodening&oldid=1118959</a>"</div>     <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Media" title="Category:Media">Media</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Films" title="Category:Films">Films</a></li></ul></div></div>   <div align="center" class="adBanner">  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9190928661218539" data-ad-slot="2012305905"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div>   </div> <div id="footer_content"> <ul> <li> Modified on December 20, 2021, at 14:04.</li> <li></li> </ul>  </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikisimpsons:Privacy_policy" title="Wikisimpsons:Privacy policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikisimpsons:About" title="Wikisimpsons:About">About Wikisimpsons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikisimpsons:General_disclaimer" title="Wikisimpsons:General disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li><a href="https://status.simpsonswiki.com/">Site Status</a></li> </ul>   <ul id="icons"> <li> <a href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/cc-by-sa.png" alt="Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/mediawiki.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li> </ul>  </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <footer> <p>© 2024 Wikisimpsons. 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