The Last Drive-in’s third season may have been the best one yet. Joe Bob and Darcy always manage to bring some of the best movies in genre cinema and last season was no different. From another amazing Japanese zombie movie to a double bill about a particularly crazy police officer, the show delivered the goods. Here is what we are hoping to see in the upcoming fourth season.
From Beyond (1986)
Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton were great together in the classic Re-Animator. They team up again with director Stuart Gordon to bring another H.P. Lovecraft short story to the film. (Combs and Crampton have also both been guests on The Last Drive-in.) The film is about a pair of scientists who have to confront a shape-shifting monster. The eye trauma scene is memorable for all the right and wrong reasons.
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Creeps has one of the best jokes. “I’ve got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here. . . . They’re dead.” Tom Atkins starts in Night of the Creeps so you know Darcy will be ecstatic. Filled with slugs and gore, this comedy horror is memorable and plain fun. Plus, it’s got a school dance so maybe we can see another Last Drive-In prom?
Blood Diner (1987)
Blood Diner is just bonkers and gross. Directed by Jackie Kong, this film is as hilarious as it is over the top and was made for The Last Drive-in. I can already see the Drive-In totals: Gratuitous wrestling, gratuitous topless aerobics, these are just some of the few absurdly wonderful elements that one can find in Blood Diner. “Health food” and pagan rituals collide in a movie about two guys just trying to make their uncle proud.
WrestleMassacre (2018)
As any fan will tell you, it is hard to come by a good pro wrestling movie. There are exceptions, but they tend to make fun of the audience instead of entertaining them. Horror leans into giving the audience what they want, so wrestling and horror is usually a great combination. WrestleMassacre is a fun example that is all about sinking to the lowest common denominator, just like good wrestling and good horror are supposed to.
Truck Stop Women (1974)
America is home to some of the weirdest fads of all time. One of the strangest is the CB radio craze of the mid 1970s. It did not last long, but it still birthed some of the best cult cinema ever made. Truck Stop Women is easily the best trucker movie of all time and can make a strong argument for best exploitation movie ever. It is a love letter to trucking culture and the Southwest that has to be seen to be truly appreciated. One of the most satisfying endings ever put to film.
The Last Drive-in returns to Shudder April 29
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