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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Swedish Wildcats (1972)
If you are going to dive headfirst into the sleazy, sun-dappled depths of Euro-exploitation, you need a maestro at the helm. Enter Joseph W. Sarno, the undisputed auteur of adult cinema who treated trashy premises like high art. With 1972’s Swedish Wildcats, Sarno takes us across the Atlantic for a film that’s part sleazy melodrama, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: 43: The Richard Petty Story (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: 43: The Richard Petty Story was on the CBS Late Movie on May 13, 1987. When this biopic about NASCAR’s winningest driver was made, stock-car racing hadn’t yet vaulted from regional popularity in the South to nationwide notoriety. Races didn’t find their way to national television until a few years later, so that […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Ben (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ben was on the CBS Late Movie on February 21, 1975 and March 11, 1977. I knew the Michael Jackson song “Ben” a hell of a lot better than Ben the movie, but now, I’ve crossed over into the sewer, and I know both. If you remember Willard—and who could forget?—Willard Stiles got completely overwhelmed and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Summertime Killer (1972)
The Summertime Killer (also known as Target Removed) starts hot. A young boy watches in horror as four ruthless mobsters brutally beat his father to death. Fast forward twenty years, and that little boy is Raymond Sullivan Castor (Christopher Mitchum), all grown up and running a cold, calculated campaign of retribution. He’s already systematically eliminated […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Fear Is the Key (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fear Is the Key was on the CBS Late Movie on August 12, 1981 and June 30, 1982. John Talbot (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point) shows up in a small Louisiana town and nearly immediately starts a fight with some cops, goes to jail and it’s soon discovered that he is wanted for killing a policeman […]
Night of the Felines (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. You know you’re in for a roman porno that has more lighthearted moments than usual when the opening scene involves oversized sausages on a pile of spaghetti. Don’t get too comfortable, though, as director Noboru Tanaka’s Night of the […]
Miss Leslie’s Dolls (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran in Drive-In Asylum #26, which you can buy on Etsy. Nothing is ever truly lost. For example, Miss Leslie’s Dolls, a movie that opened in Pensacola, Florida on December 19, 1972 and played in Fort Walton Beach on March 3, 1973 and the Ft. Pierce Drive-In Theater, the home drive-in […]
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