Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Driving Force (1989)
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out At the end of the world, we will all have to be part of the high-stakes, white-knuckle world of aggressive corporate towing. Yes, it’s Driving Force, a bizarre sci-fi action hybrid directed by A.J. Prowse. […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Bad Georgia Road (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bad Georgia Road was on the CBS Late Movie on January 23, 1981. Released around a month after Smokey and the Bandit to drive-ins across the American South by Dimension Pictures, this played double bills with The Great Smokey Roadblock or Hi-Riders. It follows city slicker Molly Golden (Carol Lynley), who learns she’s […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Gargoyles (1972)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: When I was a kid, I remember asking my dad what movies he thought were scary. He answered Night of the Living Dead and Gargoyles, so I was always nervous to […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Deadly Blessing (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadly Blessing was on the CBS Late Movie on March 28 and July 14, 1988. Alright, I’ll admit it: I don’t like Wes Craven, but I liked this movie. The Hittites are a religious community who “make the Amish look like swingers,” and even when people like Jim Schmidt escape it, they keep […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Crime Zone (1988)
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out God is Dead. Hell Still Exists. Well, that’s a great tagline and an even better poster. As for the movie, well…it tries. In the future, society is divided into a strict class structure with the […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: As Matthew watches his father work on a tractor, he decides to turn it on and kill him with it, all at the cost of his own left hand. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Switchblade Sisters (1975)
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Swinging Co-eds (1972)
When you doubt what a movie is and it’s playing at a drive-in in the 70s, chances are it’s a Schoolgirl Report movie. Also known as Sex at the Olympics and Girls Who Came to Munich, this is—like those films—a stitched-together carousel of softcore vignettes set against the backdrop of Munich 1972 that has absolutely […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: The Shining (1980)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: What else can be said about The Shining that hasn’t been said before? How many times have I seen this film, and what can I add to the conversation? That’s […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sweet Sugar (1972)
Sugar Bowman (Phyllis Davis, who played Susan Lake in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) takes a deal to serve two years working on Dr. John’s (Angus Duncan) sugarcane plantation rather than go to prison for a crime she didn’t commit. When she’s not out in the fields cutting crops with a machete all day, she […]
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