Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 9 — Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The last double-feature of Season Two-o of The Last Drive-In started out with another trip into Clive Barker’s vision of Hell with those Cenobites (pinheaded and otherwise) tormenting some more folks in Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 9 — Hell Comes to Frogtown
Season Two-o finishes in Frogtown, where a wrestling icon’s whangdoodle holds the key to repopulation and a whole buncha mean amphibians want to shorten his life and something else.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Dice Clay, Tweed, Piper in a Thriller? Sign Us Up
An unheralded thriller from the 1990s, “No Contest” starred Shannon Tweed, who did kung fu for this one, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, who took folks hostage, and Robert Davi, who did the Robert Davi thing.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 8 — Scare Package and Hogzilla
Joe Bob graced our screens in the usual spots and INSIDE the movies, including the unforgivable betrayal of a world premiere showing of “Hogzilla” and Darcy doing the Drive-In Totals.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Remember the First Time Joe Bob Acted?
Joe Bob’s feature-film de-butt actually got cut. The full story is in the long out-of-print “Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In,” but he was still stinging from being chopped out of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” when he reviewed it.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 7 — Mayhem
We had brutality in an office setting, a “beef” between Joe Bob and a director and Mayhem to boot. For attendees to The Last Drive-In, it’s just Week 7.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 7 — Tetsuo: The Iron Man
When metal supersedes flesh and the industrial consumes the organic, what next but global destruction? Tetsuo is so metal it turned Ernie into a metal fetishist.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: More Body Weirdness from Japan in ‘Visitor Q’
This isn’t a pile of scrap metal motoring around intent on causing world destruction like in “Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” but Takashi Miike’s “Visitor Q” has its own take on body horror and it includes lactose, lots of lactose.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 6 — Cannibal Holocaust
The Last Drive-In crew gets into the meat (or heart, or whatever bloody body part you choose) of the matter when it takes on “Cannibal Holocaust,” a 40-year-old Italian cannibal flick that maintains an important role in horror movie history.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: The Nuclear Family Goes Cannibal in ‘Parents’
Last week on the Last Drive-In, we all saw cannibals Italian-style. This week’s Retro Review takes the human munching into the realm of the beloved 1950s U.S. sitcom with “‘Parents.”