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.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 4 — 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 — 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.
