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 โLe Championโ โ All Elite Wrestling megastar Chris Jericho โ paid a visit to Joe Bobโs trailer to check out 1976โs 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.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Joe Bob Experiments with ‘Body Chemistry Numero Four-o’
The erotic thriller genre was a big deal back in the mid-1990s, giving the cable channel Cinemax the monicker “Skinemax” due to all the aardvarking and garbonzas in the movies it showed. Here, Joe Bob takes a look at the fourth installment of the “Body Chemistry” series.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Plaguers’: Did You Like ‘Demoni?’ Do You Like Space? This is Like ‘Demoni’ in Space …
A leaky space orb unleashes an infection that changes people into raging monsters, threatening friend and foe alike in writer/director Brad Sykes’ “Plaguers.”
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: In the Nineties, a Trip to ‘Dinosaur Island’ was a Good Way to Get Away
Joe Bob Briggs praises “Dinosaur Island,” a 1994 offering from the combined talents of Jim Wynorski and Fred Olen Ray. The co-directors not only showed off their movie-making skills, but showed off some enormous, well-rounded talents of another kind in this throwback to classic prehistoric flicks.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Bio-Dead’: Tantalizing Toxic Disaster Ends Up Being About a Bald Albino Creep
The promise of a toxic mutant apocalypse that expectations brought for Bio-Dead doesn’t come to fruition. If Bio-Dead had gone more of the glopola route with the spewing of blood, weird-colored fluids and scabby flesh with copious oozing expected from a pandemic flick instead of a Saw/Hostel torture redux and a bald albino dude, we might have had something more.
Last Call | Retro Review: Our pal Stuart Gordon got even kinkier when he headed “From Beyond”
In memory of the passing of the great drive-in director Stuart Gordon, we re-publish Joe Bob Briggs’ review of the black leather-and-glopola classic “From Beyond,” but first, a budgetary lesson about how the U.S. economy works.