Drive-In Massacre

1976 "... YOUR NIGHTMARES ARE ABOUT TO COME TRUE"
3.7| 1h14m| R| en
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Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Michael Ledo Killings are happening at a Drive-in , located somewhere in California. The police have three suspects who are quite the characters making this into a cheese/camp film.The killing is all done by someone who sneaks in a sword and is able to walk around the drive-in with one. The original quality of the film was never good. It is about a D+ on most DVDs. Consider a Blu-Ray if you desire B quality for a B film.The film was designed to show at Drive-ins to create a false idea that there is a killer stalking couples at said place.Guide: Brief nudity (Janus Blythe plus centerfolds on the wall)
Scott LeBrun This sleazy thriller is cruder than Hell, and in truth it doesn't offer an over abundance of sordid thrills. It functions more like a police procedural at times, albeit one that's not terribly interesting. Two detectives, played by Bruce Kimball and John F. Goff, are on the trail of a sword wielding psychopath terrorizing the same drive in theatre over and over, usually offing just one couple a night. Among the suspects that they interview: bald headed, hulking theatre owner Austin Johnson (Robert E. Pearson), and the skinny, quivery creep Orville (Norman Sheridan).Veteran character actor Goff, a veteran of LOTS of B level and exploitation cinema, also co- wrote the script with his friend and frequent co-star George 'Buck' Flower. The cast includes other familiar faces such as John Alderman, Jacqueline Giroux, and Janus Blythe. Flower himself turns up, uncredited, late in the tale as a maniac with a machete, and the girl *he's* terrorizing is played by Flowers' own real-life daughter! Since there are some experienced actors on hand, the performances are a shade better than one might ordinarily see in such a movie. Both Pearson and Sheridan are extremely amusing, especially the latter given that he plasters porn all over one wall of his house. The same goes for Douglas Gudbye as slow witted theatre custodian "Germy"; this guy is a hoot.Since this picture is in the public domain, one will need to be prepared for somewhat less than ideal audio quality, rendering some dialogue unintelligible. (Not that this is any great loss.) The lighting by Ken Gibb is appropriate to the material, and the music score is hilariously crummy. That song that opens the movie is pretty catchy, though. The gore may be of the dollar store variety, but it suits its purpose. The first kill is a pretty cool decapitation.The ending is quite unsatisfying, however.Six out of 10.
kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** Bloodless slasher movie about this drive-in movie theater that's been targeted by some psycho who seems to dislike the films that its playing. Stalking the lot and looking for action the killer ends up killing some half dozen costumers, couples necking, before the police decide to have it closed down before any more people end up getting killed. It's Det. Mike Leary & police psychologist Steve Vincent who try to track down the killer with very little results in that they seem to be the only police assigned to this high profile murder case. One of the craziest scenes in the movie is when both Leary & Vincent have it out with this escaped or just pardoned lunatic accused of murdering his parents who's intended victim, his teen age daughter, after being rescued refuses to press charges against him! It's the drive-in manager Yule Brenner look-alike Austin Johnson who soon becomes the #1 suspect in this string of drive-in murders just because he used to be a knife thrower in the circus before he got the job there. Johnson for his part has it in for the night watchman at the drive-in Germy in him, besides wanting to get paid, once being a much better knife thrower as well as swallower then he ever was. ****SPOILERS***In the final sequence were made to see that both Leary & Vincent finally got their man only for it to be so confusing that you didn't even know if the film ended or not until you saw the closing credits. One of the hardest movies to watch in that the lighting in it was so utterly dismal that you strained your eyes & brain in trying to watch or follow it. As for John F. Goff & Douglas Gudbye as cops Leary & Vincent they in fact did a commendable job in trying to be convincing, by not cracking up, but it without out a doubt was the torturous and painful acting of Robert E. Pearson as the thankless drive-in manager Austin Johnson who won the acting honors by showing, like those of us watching, how he felt about the movie and being in it like it was more of a prison sentence then an acting role for him.
tomimt Right, what to say about the "Drive in Massacre". Well, lets start with bad acting, on which we can go to poor direction and from that we can jump right to terrible soundtrack and we can even lace the whole thing with poorly done script. And that's what I can say about the movie.This is one of those b-films which feel like they don't go anywhere, and this certainly something that is accurate about this one. There's some murders in the drive in, yet nothing is done with them even tough the film supposedly revolves around solving the case, yet it really didn't feel like it. And the film even managed to feel too long.So avoid, if you can. It really wasn't even funny in a purely bad way..