DRIVE-IN FRIDAY: Get On the Train
This week, our drive-in goes on the road — err, the rails — to deliver four different horrific tales that take place on a train. All aboard! 1. Terror Train (Roger Spottiswoode, 1980): Jamie Lee Curtis’ third entry into the early days of the slasher, Terror Train may not have a unique plot, but it does have an […]
Drive-In Friday: FVI Night Part II
Film Ventures International is an obsession that won’t end. After all, Edward L. Montoro, walked away with a million bucks into the ether, like a movie-making D.B. Cooper and no one ever found him. Last time, we featured Beyond the Door, Mortuary, Grizzly, Great White and Stunt Rock. The FVI catalog is deep, so that means we’re ready to […]
Drive-In Friday: Documentaries About Directors Night
“Documentaries are boring. Who wants to watch a bunch of talking heads bragging about themselves?”—Eric, purveyor of film quality and all things Sein(feld)suck. And to a degree, I agree with my running-bud Eric: unless you have an interest in the subject matter at hand. As someone who’s spent his life in radio broadcasting and enamored […]
Drive-In Friday: Walpurgis Night
I just read the best quote: “I am not joking. The proliferation of horror movies where the bad guy wins is clearly, obviously, a demonic plot to increase cynicism and teach people that it is stupid to feel hope or expect justice. It is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a satanic psyop.” Oh man, welcome to B&S […]
Drive-In Friday: The “Pasta Wars” Films of Alfonso Brescia, aka “Italy’s Star Wars”
Editor’s Note: Due to their plot, costume, and SFX common denominator recycling, we are reviewing five films in this exploration of Alfonzo Brescia’s “Star Wars” films: Cosmos: War the the Planets, Battle of the Stars, War of the Robots, Star Odyssey, and Beast in Space—so, yes: it’s a five-in-one review. And we toss in a […]
Drive-In Friday: Brett Piper Night
New Hampshire’s Brett Piper is a self-made screenwriter, director, and special effects artist who shoots most of his films in Pennsylvania, most notably in the western and northwestern counties of Cambria and Tioga County. He’s also a self-professed purveyor of “schlock” who eschews modern CGI for “old school” special effects, such as matte paintings, miniatures, […]
Drive-In Friday: Kinski Spaghetti Westerns
March 2022 Announcement: Severin Films has released a Blu-ray of Nosferatu in Venice — scanned in 2k from the original negative — which serves as the unofficial sequel to Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. In addition to cast and crew interviews, the Blu also features the 80-minute documentary, Creation is Violent – Anecdotes From Kinski’s Final Years. […]
Drive-In Friday: Rock, Rock, Rock Night
It’s time to forget all your troubles and indulge yourself in some musical films that just want to entertain you. Each of these movies are borderline insane and make little to no sense, which is just how we like them. Feel free to sing, dance and honk your horns whenever you want. MOVIE 1: Streets […]
Drive-In Friday: Fast & Furious ’50s Style Night
Thank the celluloid gods of the analog netherworlds for giving Sam the idea to commemorate the Fast & Furious franchise, thus granting the opportunity to go ’50s hot roddin’ rock n’ roll crazy with this week’s Drive-In Friday tribute. Tonight’s show takes me back to the days when AMC was still known as “American Movie […]
Drive-In Friday: Crown International Night
Crown International Pictures was an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P. Jacobs. They were one of the first franchise distributors for American-International Pictures and like that studio, they specialized in low-budget junk. In other words, perfect movies for the drive-in. Crown was all over the place in what they […]
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