Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)
It was an old Hammer-style film, in black and white. A young couple was on a road trip, driving through a secluded part of the country. There was a long drop-off on one side of the road, a dark gray cliff tumbling into a raging sea.
The car got a flat tire, and the car pulled to the side of the road. There was a town nearby, its rooftops visible over the rise. They walked to the town, hoping to find a gas station or someplace that could repair their tire.
But the town was empty. Cold, deserted, dusty from non-use. Not a soul was visible, just a black crow eying them suspiciously from a rooftop. They walked up the main street, calling for anyone, but no one answered. Then a door opened, and a pair of matronly women emerged. "Oh, dears!" they said, smiling. "Do come in, won't you?"
They took the couple up to their apartment on the top floor, for tea. They explained that the town had been abandoned; they remained only because this was where they had always lived. They couldn't bear to leave.
The couple thought this odd. The town was most definitely abandoned, but it wasn't as if everyone packed up and left. There were still cars parked on the roads. There was still furniture in the houses. The stores were closed, but still filled with merchandise.
"Why don't you stay the night, dears?" the kindly spinsters asked. "In the morning, maybe we can arrange for a tow truck?"
The couple were suspicious, but they agreed to stay. They settled in to one of the empty apartments to wait out the night. But their suspicions grew, and curious, they peeked through the window of the old ladies. What they saw terrified them. The old women were, in fact, vampires. They shed their disguises as old women once night fell, and had fed on the people of the town!
The young couple knew they had to get out. The man searched for some way of escape, and found a hot-air balloon. Despite not knowing anything about how to pilot such a thing, they decided it was their best chance. But they needed supplies. While the man prepared the balloon, the woman rushed down to the local 5-and-dime and began gathering food, water, any kind of equipment she could get her hands on.
She passed an abandoned gas station along the way, but she found that all the station's spare tires had been slashed -- the women obviously had done so to prevent them from getting back to their car and fixing it!
They had to hurry. The vampire women would be coming for them soon, and split up like this, both the man and his wife would be vulnerable...