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 – 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 – 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.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: ‘The Final Chapter’? Well, we all know how that turned out …
In the wake of Tom Savini’s guest spot on “Maniac,” last week’s first feature on The Last Drive-In, we take a look at “Friday the 13th, Part 4: The Final Chapter,” one of Savini’s special effects masterpieces in this week’s Retro Review from Joe Bob.
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 – Chopping Mall
The Last Call Blog’s reviews of The Last Drive-In Season Two-o start off with Laura Beerman reviewing what happened when Chopping Mall hit the screen.
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 […]
Last Call | Retro Review: Continuing a Theme from Last Week’s LDI Premiere, Here’s Some More Wynorski
Joe Bob provides his list of top 1990s scream queens and we see some of them in this 1992 review of “Hollywood Scream Queen Hot Tub Party.”
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.