The Last Drive-In | Season Five, Week 5 and 5.5: The Mutilator, Possession and The Walkin Dead: Dead City special
To catch everybody up with the goings-on out at the Grapevine trailer, aka Last Drive-In Central, right before the resumption of the regularly scheduled festivities on Shudder, let me first remind everyone that tickets for the third annual Joe Bob’s Jamboree are available for purchase and have been since right after the mid-season break. It’s […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 5, Week 4: The Babadook and The Muthers
We celebrated all the Mutant moms out there with a maternally themed double-feature this past week on The Last Drive-In. And while the first flick on the bill was devoted to trying to figure out if there really was a Babadook (Joe Bob thinks it was all in Mom’s mind), it was followed up by […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Butcher Boys’: Writer of the original TCM weaves a tale of urban cannibalism
It’s been said time and time again by Joe Bob that “‘Saw is king,” meaning that, apart from it being narrowly defeated by the original Night of the Living Dead in his 1982 newspaper poll about the world’s greatest drive-in flick, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre probably will be pointed at for all time as […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 5, Week 3 — Don’t Panic and Tigers are Not Afraid
Cinco de Mayo was the reason to celebrate at the trailer out in Grapevine as Joe Bob waxed poetic about Mexican military history and the origins of some favorite cuisines that have migrated to these here Estados Unidos from south of the border. And he and Darcy put away enough cervezas and tequila that it […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Bad Ass’: We celebrate Danny Trejo’s 79th with a feature ripped straight from the Internet
Fans of drive-in fare are very, very familiar with the work of Danny Trejo, whether it be from his frequent collaborations with Robert Rodriguez (The two Machete flicks, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, etc.) or the constant stream of roles, both wide release and direct-to-video/streaming he’s accumulated in genre […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 5, Week 2 — Witchboard and The Devil’s Rain
For those keeping track, it’s Darcy 2, JB 1 when it comes to The Last Drive-In’s ongoing co-host kill count. If you recall, Darcy dunked a canoeing Joe Bob in a Friday the 13th homage at the end of Humanoids of the Deep during the pandemic lockdown season when everything was relocated into a cabin […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Garden Party Massacre’: It’s comedy over carnage when a guy with a pickaxe shows up
So before we get to the latest installment of The Screening Room, there’s a question that I’ve been struggling with. It’s not one of those easy ones. Stuff like, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Or, “Who shot JFK?” (Which, by the way, Joe Bob has already solved if you know where to […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 1: Lucio Fulci Night — Zombie and The Beyond
Live from Grapevine, Texas, it was the Last Drive-In premiere! Or should I say, The Late Drive-In? Boy, it sure was a shock to some people’s systems when the lawn chairs, cinder blocks and red cooler were dispensed with for a week and instead we got a talk show set, a plethora of guests and […]
Ben Nagy reviews ’30 Miles From Nowhere’: Things get tense for middle-aged college chums at funeral/reunion
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A bunch of old school friends are brought together by the death of one of their old college pals, and that person’s passing gives them an opportunity to head out to a cabin in the woods. Yeah, it’s the premise of The Big Chill, which was one […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Gardener’: When Robert Bronzi’s not handling plants, he’s wasting home-invading scum
I’ve kinda gotten behind on my Robert Bronzi flicks. If you don’t know who he is, he’s the 21st century Hungarian incarnation of Charles Bronson whose genre-flick career has taken off because he bears an uncanny resemblance to the Drive-In Hall-of-Famer. Bronson, for those of you who haven’t read Joe Bob’s old columns or gotten […]