Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 5 โ Deadbeat at Dawn

Dayton, Ohio, director Jim Van Bebberโs Deadbeat at Dawn obeys one of the prime rules of a Drive-In flick โ anybody can die at any time โ 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 โ “My Sweet Satan” โ 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— โaspiring,โ 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 โ Troma’s War

Our very special guest for the first feature of Season 2, Week 4, was the esteemed Tromatic auteur Lloyd Kaufman and his lovely wife, Pat. They chatted with Joe Bob about Troma’s War, the esteemed independent studio’s film of mass destruction aimed straight at the crotch of the military-industrial complex.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 4 โ 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 | Retro Review: Troma Unleashes ‘Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D.’

Uncle Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz added to the pantheon of Troma Studios heroes with “Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D.,” which was reviewed by Joe Bob back in 1995. Check it out.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week Three โ Brain Damage

Gratuitous blogger Laura Beerman takes a swing at some Brain Damage, the first feature for Season Two-o, Week 3 of the Last Drive-In.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 3 โ Profondo Rosso

Dario Argento’s influential giallo gets deep, and there’s red stuff involved Following theย Brain Damage we received to start Week Three-o, feature Two-o was Dario Argentoโs 1975 giallo classicย Profondo Rosso, akaย Deep Red, an over-the-top murder mystery thatโll 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 โ Maniac

Sweaty Joe Spinell gives a, well, maniacal performance in Maniac, a flick he wrote, while Tom Savini talks about ‘sploding his ownself’s head during the first feature of Season 2, Episode 2 of The Last Drive-In.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 2 โ 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.