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.”
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 5 — The Exorcist III
There’s a carp swimming back and forth in my tub. And I want to kill it. Friday night my drive-in dreams came true. No, Joe Bob didn’t come out in hot pants doing the Native American dance he learned as a young Eagle Scout in Texarkana. He showed Exorcist III, not as good as the original […]
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.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Lookin at what Van Bebber was up to after ‘Deadbeat’
Joe Bob checked out one of “Deadbeat By Dawn” director Jim Van Bebber’s later efforts — “My Sweet Satan” — in the mid-1990s. It has a scene that gets a perfect 100 on the Vomit Meter. Check it out.
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.