Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 5 — Deadbeat at Dawn
Dayton, Ohio, director Jim Van Bebber’s Deadbeat at Dawn obeys one of the prime rules of a Drive-In flick — anybody can die at any time — and provided the perfect exclamation point on what, thematically, was dubbed by JBB to be Nasty Vicious Death Night on The Last Drive-In.
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Wamego’ and ‘Wamego Strikes Back’: The Triumphs, Challenges of Independent Film Production Laid Bare
Piggybacking off the speech to filmmakers ( f— “aspiring,” remember?) that Joe Bob made at the conclusion of the second feature of the May 15th, 2020, episode of The Last Drive-In, Ben Nagy checks out the first two installments in the Wamego documentary trilogy featuring filmmaker Steve Balderson and the challenges of independent filmmaking.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 4 — One Cut of the Dead
One Cut of the Dead provides a shot of inspiration just when it was needed as the second feature of Week Four-o of The Last Drive-In Season Two.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 3 — Profondo Rosso
Dario Argento’s influential giallo gets deep, and there’s red stuff involved Following the Brain Damage we received to start Week Three-o, feature Two-o was Dario Argento’s 1975 giallo classic Profondo Rosso, aka Deep Red, an over-the-top murder mystery that’ll keep first-time viewers guessing until about the last three minutes and keeps repeat viewers coming back for the score […]
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 2 – Heathers
Heathers is that rarest of drive-in flicks, one rarely seen by us Mutants, a four-star film with no garbonzas and a stellar script. It won two Hubbies in 1990 and proved influential for years to come.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Ryan’s Babe’: You Might Love It, You Might Hate It — You Probably Won’t Forget It
Rescued from a trash bin, this 20-year-old movie bounces a college dude around North America like a leaf in the wind. There’s no blood and no breasts, and profound flaws litter the production. But it’s something else, especially if a viewer is in the right mood.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 1 – Blood Sucking Freaks
Very few loved it, a lot of people said they hated it, and us Mutants all lived through this sleaze classic(?) with Joe Bob and “Le Champion” Chris Jericho The wrestler known as “Le Champion” — All Elite Wrestling megastar Chris Jericho — paid a visit to Joe Bob’s trailer to check out 1976’s Blood […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Killing’: A Showrunner’s Life Collapses and People Die
Jeb, a weirdbeard showrunner for an animated kids cartoon about a girl and some aliens, descends into a homicidal rampage in American Killing and takes his writing crew with him.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Demon Squad’: Hiney-Kicking Paranormal P.I. Fights Monsters in Mobile
Demon Squad, an educational flick about how there’s a whole bunch of supernatural creatures roaming in Mobile, Ala., that us normal folks don’t notice, features paranormal investigator Nick Moon and his psychic assistant fighting a demon boss in a fedora.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Plaguers’: Did You Like ‘Demoni?’ Do You Like Space? This is Like ‘Demoni’ in Space …
A leaky space orb unleashes an infection that changes people into raging monsters, threatening friend and foe alike in writer/director Brad Sykes’ “Plaguers.”