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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.Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
John F. Goff
- Police Det. Mike Leary
- (as Jake Barnes)
Steve Vincent
- Police Psychologist
- (as Adam Lawrence)
Verkina Flower
- Little Girl in Warehouse
- (as Verkina Flowers)
Robert E. Pearson
- Austin Johnson
- (as Newton Naushaus)
Norman Sheridan
- Orville Ingleson
- (as Norman Sherlock)
John Alderman
- Jim
- (as Frank Hollowell)
Jacqueline Giroux
- Arlene
- (as Valdesta)
Bruce Kimball
- Police Det. John Koch
- (as Michael Alden)
Martin Gatsby
- David
- (as Marty Gatsby)
Sandy Carey
- Lori
- (as Patricia James)
Janus Blythe
- Alan's Girl
- (as Tiffany Jones)
George 'Buck' Flower
- Suspect in Warehouse
- (uncredited)
Stu Segall
- Police Captain
- (uncredited)
Cheri Woods
- Murder Victim
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe majority of the cast used pseudonyms because this movie was made non-union and they wanted to avoid being fined by the Screen Actors Guild.
- GoofsThe same shot of the manager lighting a cigarette, shaking his head, and walking into the projection booth is shown several times throughout the course of this film.
- Quotes
Detective Larry: I talked to the manager of the drive in. His name is Austin Johnson, and you're really gonna like him. He's what you'd call your perfect asshole.
- Crazy creditsMake up effects by: the Duke of Disguise
- ConnectionsFeatured in New Life (1983)
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Oh come on people, this isn't THAT bad
Granted this isn't a classic movie, but it can be kind of fun if you catch it in the right frame of mind - or if you've been drinking heavily. Basically the title tells all: psycho on the loose at a local drive in movie theatre killing everybody, and even the filmmakers don't know who the killer is. Lame, yes, but how can you miss gems like the title being misspelled in the trailer, (as "Drive in Masacre") The musical score is almost as bad as a record by "Jandek" - if any of you know who he is. An obvious latex dummy is decapitated in the first scene, then we see two Pillsbury Doughboy-looking cops questioning the owner of the drive in (he kind of looks like he's dressed as the devil for Halloween) The audio quality is awful during the first few scenes, so it's difficult to understand what is being said (not that it really matters, though) We get soap opera clichés involving pregnancy in between the first two gory killings, until the two cops go 'undercover' by dressing in drag just like what you saw in "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" trying to catch the killer, but just providing the audience with a few laughs instead. They interrogate a suspect 'Engleson' and the first cop obviously stutters his line while speaking to Engleson ("Do you know what that Engle ... *cough* ... do you know what that is Engleson?") A brief foot chase ensues, but leads nowhere except to an opportunity for the camera man's shadow to be visible on their backs several times here, and in the next scene. This is all good cheese ball fun for about the first 55 minutes or so, but after that, a 'so bad it's good' type of movie just turns terrible as they then try to pad out the short running time by showing that little leprechaun looking guy Germy loitering around the drive in, and then another ten minutes of padding involving the cops chasing an unrelated suspect though a warehouse - and the guy they're chasing looks like the same guy playing "Austin Johnson", only he's wearing a really crappy looking wig. If this sequence, and the lengthy opening credits scene were edited out of the film, the movie's running time would barely be about 55 minutes. This is capped by a twist ending that was probably lame even in an actual drive in, and it's even worse when you see it on video.
If you're looking to kill an hour and ten minutes, you definitely could do worse than this movie, it's better than some here have said.
If you're looking to kill an hour and ten minutes, you definitely could do worse than this movie, it's better than some here have said.
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