April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 24 and 25, 2026. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included). You can buy tickets at the show, but get there early and learn more here.

The features for Friday, April 24 are Prince of Darkness, Popcorn, Fade to Black and Evilspeak.

Saturday, April 25 has Halloween 4, Halloween 5, A Bay of Blood and Funeral Home.

After the absolute banger ending of Halloween 4, where little Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) went full-tilt boogeyman on her foster mom, we all expected the next chapter to be The Bad Seed of Haddonfield. Instead, Michael Myers, who was shot approximately ten thousand times and dropped down a mine shaft, survives by floating down a river like a waterlogged log of pure evil.

He’s nursed back to health by a hermit and a parrot (yes, really) for a year. Once he wakes up, he kills his benefactor and heads back to town to find Jamie. Jamie is now mute, institutionalized, and sharing a psychic link with her uncle. While Dr. Loomis screams at a child to find a killer, Michael stalks a group of teens led by the hyperactive Tina, leading to a climax in the old Myers house involving a laundry chute and a mysterious Man in Black who has some very aggressive feelings about police stations.

Yes, The Shape takes a page out of Frankenstein, as an old hermit nurses him back to life after the last film’s mine shaft death sequence. Then he goes right back to killing and stalking his niece. The one exciting moment, when a mysterious stranger in black kills nearly the entire cast at the conclusion of the film, suggests that whatever happens next, it’s going to be awesome. I agree with Donald Pleasence and Danielle Harris, who wanted to continue the story of Jamie turning evil after stabbing her stepmother in the past film. Instead, we got Michael crying. Crying! You don’t make the Shape shed a tear unless it’s made of blood.

Here’s an interview with my wife about this movie and why she loves it.

BECCA: One word: Tina. Michael and his convertible… Mikey. That mean asshole, he gets hit with a rake and Michael Myers steals her car to get him. I love that Michael just knows how to drive a stick shift and navigate a 1989 Camaro like he’s in The Fast and the Furious. It’s ridiculous and I live for it.

SAM: How many times have you seen this movie?

BECCA: Five billion. It’s one of the ones I rented every week. I don’t know why my parents didn’t just find this and buy it. It would have saved them $2.00 a week at the local Video King.

SAM: This movie feels like a fever dream directed by someone who had never seen a Halloween movie but had seen a lot of European art house films and Miami Vice. Why are there two bumbling cops with clown sound effects? Why did they change the Myers house into a Gothic Victorian mansion that definitely wasn’t there in 1978?

BECCA: Because it’s the 80s, Sam! Style over logic! Plus, Donald Pleasence is at his absolute most unhinged here. He’s basically using a traumatized child as live bait. He’s more of a villain than Michael is at points. He’s literally barking at her!

SAM: It’s a mess, but it’s a fascinating mess. It gave us the Thorn tattoo and the Man in Black, setting up a sequel that would eventually involve Paul Rudd and Druid cults. It’s the moment the franchise decided that slasher wasn’t enough and supernatural soap opera was the way to go.

This is the middle child of the Thorn Trilogy. It’s loud, it’s confusing, it has a mask that looks like an angry potato with long hair and we love it anyway. Watch it for Danielle Harris giving a performance that is way better than the script deserves.