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