The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 8: Mad God and Perfect Blue
New ground was broken, bulldozed, nuked, dragged to hell and then launched into space when we experienced the first Animation Night on The Last Drive-In. Not that we don’t see anything new or learn something EVERY TIME the lights outside the trailer turn on, Joe Bob settles in the lawn chair or recliner and we […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 7: The Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Beyond the Door III
The rural horror double feature of last week’s holiday visit to the Last Drive-In nearly had two four-star flicks. One had been unlikely sourced from the dusty realm of early 1980s broadcast TV, yet still retained a surprising air of menace and some outstanding performances even under the constraints of the more strict standards and […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Zombieland’: Looking for Woody? This is the wrong place. Looking for ‘Fat Ass Zombies?’ Bingo!
Sometimes in film marketing the easiest way to get an eyeball or two on the flick is just to name (or rename) something really close to a popular release and this trawling’ll get some people who aren’t looking too closely caught in the net. The Italians really got that down to a science in the […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 6: Sharknado and Amsterdamned
A double dose of water-related horror flicks brought us back from a halftime break at the trailer in Grapevine and it was about time. We also were graced with a special appearance from the father of the six-flick (so far) Sharknado franchise, Anthony Ferrante, and another flick that had a kick-butt and memorable closing theme […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Clownado’: Evil clowns get sucked up in storm and slaughter folks in the Midwest
First an announcement: If you’re a filmmaker and you haven’t submitted your flick to the World Drive-In Movie Festival, the deadline’s in about three weeks (July 14th). I did a video explaining everything to everyone that you can find here: Full details about the WDIMF are here. Don’t wait much longer to start shooting your […]
The Last Drive-In | Season Five, Week 5 and 5.5: The Mutilator, Possession and The Walkin Dead: Dead City special
To catch everybody up with the goings-on out at the Grapevine trailer, aka Last Drive-In Central, right before the resumption of the regularly scheduled festivities on Shudder, let me first remind everyone that tickets for the third annual Joe Bob’s Jamboree are available for purchase and have been since right after the mid-season break. It’s […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 5, Week 4: The Babadook and The Muthers
We celebrated all the Mutant moms out there with a maternally themed double-feature this past week on The Last Drive-In. And while the first flick on the bill was devoted to trying to figure out if there really was a Babadook (Joe Bob thinks it was all in Mom’s mind), it was followed up by […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Butcher Boys’: Writer of the original TCM weaves a tale of urban cannibalism
It’s been said time and time again by Joe Bob that “‘Saw is king,” meaning that, apart from it being narrowly defeated by the original Night of the Living Dead in his 1982 newspaper poll about the world’s greatest drive-in flick, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre probably will be pointed at for all time as […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 5, Week 3 — Don’t Panic and Tigers are Not Afraid
Cinco de Mayo was the reason to celebrate at the trailer out in Grapevine as Joe Bob waxed poetic about Mexican military history and the origins of some favorite cuisines that have migrated to these here Estados Unidos from south of the border. And he and Darcy put away enough cervezas and tequila that it […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Bad Ass’: We celebrate Danny Trejo’s 79th with a feature ripped straight from the Internet
Fans of drive-in fare are very, very familiar with the work of Danny Trejo, whether it be from his frequent collaborations with Robert Rodriguez (The two Machete flicks, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, etc.) or the constant stream of roles, both wide release and direct-to-video/streaming he’s accumulated in genre […]