When I went to Red River Comunity Colledge they use to show you business films like how to handle a business interview. Well I heard from my friend Tony that the 2 companys that did these low budgets but at leat respectable videos made no money, so the company from Denver decided to do a porno and made lots of money and the other from California does horro films. I guess the one from California did this one. What they call acting is right out of how I do a interview, and they did not even change the sad music from the busines videos. Even the cheap VHS camra is used. This film is bad, I gave it a 4 becuase they did surpringly well with the low budget, and non film experience, meaning this film was watchable, but awfull. In the end if you seen any of these office films at school or work rent it and compare it.
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The Pits
youngsteve14 November 2010
Normally I don't take much notice when people make comments like one of the worst films ever, but in this case I do agree with other comments about this movie which is stinking bad.
The acting in it is even worse,& if there was any justice none of the people in it would ever act in a movie again. Looking at the cast list this doesn't seem to be the case.
A tailors dummy would be better than the killer, & why do they always have girls screaming. The only person of any merit being the guy who owned the movie theatre.
Can I have 75 minutes of my life back.
The acting in it is even worse,& if there was any justice none of the people in it would ever act in a movie again. Looking at the cast list this doesn't seem to be the case.
A tailors dummy would be better than the killer, & why do they always have girls screaming. The only person of any merit being the guy who owned the movie theatre.
Can I have 75 minutes of my life back.
watch it only for the trauma team movie flicks
raimisash-117 December 2001
This movie is really not worth watching. I rented it becuse it was $0.99 at the movie store and I had nothing better to do on a Sunday night. The only interesting parts of the movie are the clips from the trauma team movies and those aren't even that good, just gory. The acting is terrible and it looks like it was filmed with a home digital camera. Terrible.
Ehhhhhhh....
FrightMeter9 March 2003
I'm a fan a horror movies and I really don't like to judge movies just on their budgets, but rather try to find redeeming qualities about the films. Slasher films aren't the cream of the, after all. DRIVE IN wasn't the worst slasher flick I have ever seen. It was a bit cheesey in parts and the acting was questionable, though I thought the lead actress/heroine did very well with what she had to work with. The story is about a mentally retarded boy named Billy who grows up across from a Drive In movie theater that plays nothing but B-Slasher flicks. Well, they finally go to his head one night and he escapes his house and goes on a murderous rampage at the Drive In. I am not a fan of extreme gore, but I do think that this is one thing that would have helped this film. The clips of the movies that the Drive In was playing were pretty gory, but the actual murders were not. We get off screen stabbings, strangulations, and *something* that happends at a Merry-Go-Round. It was too dark to tell. It was a good effort and definitely a good premise, which could have been pulled off a lot better in the hands of a more creative film crew. The ending was a little rushed too......Overall, if you are a die-hard horror fan, you might want to see this, but if you like the polished, big-budget SCREAM0-type films, avoid this like the plague. 5 out of 10.
A true Horror Movie That Sucks...
HMTS27 December 2001
What do you get when a mentally challenged horror movie watching freak named Billy gets loose and wreaks havoc on the local drive in theatre? A bad movie that's what!
You can't take a movie very far when all it's about is a guy killing people from car to car or from car to canteen. The director attempts to add the moral issue of the effect of horror movies on people's behavior by having the killer, Billy, act as the way the horror movies playing on the big screen are progressing. With a movie so bad I don't think many people will even notice or simply won't care.
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You can't take a movie very far when all it's about is a guy killing people from car to car or from car to canteen. The director attempts to add the moral issue of the effect of horror movies on people's behavior by having the killer, Billy, act as the way the horror movies playing on the big screen are progressing. With a movie so bad I don't think many people will even notice or simply won't care.
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Dustbin Dwellers: Bad D.V.D. rental night.
Captain_Couth28 November 2004
Drive-In (2000) sucks. I can not find any other way to describe this "movie". There should be a law that bans people who make crappy movies to never make another one again. This "movie" blows major chunks. The authorities should also smash their digital camera and chase them far away from the entertainment industry. Who do I blame for supporting such tripe? The two suspects have to be the first and second largest video movie rental chains in this country (I don't get paid to advertise so they shall remain nameless).
If you see this title at your local video store don't even think about it! The D.V.D. is a waste of one's time and you'll never get your ninety plus minutes of your life back. Instead of viewing this disc, find a hobby or do a good deed. It's people like me who'll fall on the sword. Life is too short for people to watch garbage like this.
Don't watch this movie!!
F----
xxx
If you see this title at your local video store don't even think about it! The D.V.D. is a waste of one's time and you'll never get your ninety plus minutes of your life back. Instead of viewing this disc, find a hobby or do a good deed. It's people like me who'll fall on the sword. Life is too short for people to watch garbage like this.
Don't watch this movie!!
F----
xxx
A no good movie with bad acting.
thejessman100015 May 2002
This is the worst movie ever!It was awful!I do not think that i will ever rent it again(or see it again for that matter)this is because the acting is the worst and the plot is just bad.For a low budget film it really sucks!I strongly recommend that you DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!But if you do not belive me then just see it yourself but trust me it is no good.
0/10 stars
0/10 stars
Oh man......
systemcr4sh19 November 2001
Okay, So we see this movie lurking in the corner of the store. Sitting beside the stinker CHILDREN OF THE LIVING DEAD we thought "How bad could it be?" Man were we wrong. At first it looks like a promo for the drive in. But it gets worse and worse. For one, there is NO gore in this movie. Aside from all the hilarious scenes from the amazing TROMA line of movies on the screen. The gore in this is minimal. And when people get killed it just shows gore on the drive in screen and some screaming. its lame! The story is terrible. Bad acting. Everything about this movie is bad. Steer clear! If you see it RUN AWAY AND RENT SOMETHING BETTER!
Worse than a B movie
CaptionsGirl6 September 2001
I'm almost positive that this was a film student's final project. Not in the least bit scary, the "killer" is a mentally retarded kid who kills with whatever's handy, a real estate sign, dental floss, a drive in speaker and a kid's merry go round. The acting is so bad, I'd call it memorized lines without any feeling. Not a movie, more a school project.
Crap
Cakehole_19 August 2004
This is the cream of the crap miss it at all cost. this film causes brain damage and suicidal needs. run like hell if u see it and warn people not to see it.
This is really a tremendous blamage for films all over the globe. An example of how it shouldn't been. OK its not as manos or meat cleaver massacre but its plain bad and not worth any of your money. If you really like this, go to hell. You don't deserve to stay on earth. This film has nothing to do with art but only with pure torture. Run like the wind if you see this film in your neighbourhood. Move to another town.
This is really a tremendous blamage for films all over the globe. An example of how it shouldn't been. OK its not as manos or meat cleaver massacre but its plain bad and not worth any of your money. If you really like this, go to hell. You don't deserve to stay on earth. This film has nothing to do with art but only with pure torture. Run like the wind if you see this film in your neighbourhood. Move to another town.
Positively putrid bottom-of-the-barrel direct-to-vid slasher schlock
Woodyanders22 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
It's been frequently said that direct-to-video movies are the true contemporary successors to the passionately lauded and beloved scuzzy, low-grade, artistically bankrupt, yet still scurrilously enjoyable scraped-from-the-bottom-of-the-celluloid-gutter drive-in movies of yore. Well, this suitably stinky straight-to-tape slasher atrocity explicitly proves that aforementioned statement to be an honest-to-goodness irrefutable fact. The flimsy, thinly written, just barely there story centers on Billy, a big, dumb, mute, sheltered, socially maladroit retard behemoth whose sole contact with the outside world is a mind-numbing overdose to senselessly exploitative hack 'em up slice'n'dice fright film sludge he's viewed from his bedroom window playing on an adjacent drive-in theater's large screen (said slimy pics are actually clips from toxically terrible Troma tripe). One fateful day Billy escapes from his house and goes to the drive-in to brutally kill folks who include a nasty abusive babysitter, a ramrod security guard, a funky slang-slingin' Hispanic marijuana dealer, the inevitable horny teen couple doing just what you think in back of a van, and more stereotypically jerky and obnoxious Generation X slacker a**holes than you can shake an empty bong at.
Boy, does this crudely produced and deplorably awful two-cent dreck ode to laughably chintzy and lousy 70's outdoor picture show crapola possess all the so-spectacularly-stinky-it's-strangely-smokin' wrong right stuff: fumbling asleep-at-the-switch direction, a paltry script, a mercifully abbreviated 77 minute running time, flat, ugly, eye-straining shot-on-cruddy-digital-video photography, dreadful acting from an amateurishly rank no-name cast, a gratingly repetitious one-note score, ragged editing, a tediously sluggish pace, a few annoying false scares, a smattering of gratuitous nudity and soft-core sex, an ill-advised, would-be meaningful and pertinent subtext about the potentially hazardous effects of watching way too much violent, grossly pandering sleaze-bucket grind-house cinematic fifth, several badly executed murder set pieces, and no finesse, suspense, intelligence or vitality to speak of. In essence, this comparably abominable body count bomb sizes up as a bona-fide latter-day clunker equivalent to the deathlessly dismal '76 trash horror classic "Drive-In Massacre."
Boy, does this crudely produced and deplorably awful two-cent dreck ode to laughably chintzy and lousy 70's outdoor picture show crapola possess all the so-spectacularly-stinky-it's-strangely-smokin' wrong right stuff: fumbling asleep-at-the-switch direction, a paltry script, a mercifully abbreviated 77 minute running time, flat, ugly, eye-straining shot-on-cruddy-digital-video photography, dreadful acting from an amateurishly rank no-name cast, a gratingly repetitious one-note score, ragged editing, a tediously sluggish pace, a few annoying false scares, a smattering of gratuitous nudity and soft-core sex, an ill-advised, would-be meaningful and pertinent subtext about the potentially hazardous effects of watching way too much violent, grossly pandering sleaze-bucket grind-house cinematic fifth, several badly executed murder set pieces, and no finesse, suspense, intelligence or vitality to speak of. In essence, this comparably abominable body count bomb sizes up as a bona-fide latter-day clunker equivalent to the deathlessly dismal '76 trash horror classic "Drive-In Massacre."
It is entertaining and the acting is better than expected
KillerRomance26 April 2020
I owned this movie in my DVD collection ten years ago and I took a look at what it is about.
A group of High School friends and rivals all decide to go to a drive in movie theater after a game cancellation then someone stalks them at night and unbeknownst to know it is Billy Morrow, a mentally challenged boy about 6'5ft who was watching a diet of horror movies his whole life even without the knowledge of his controlling Mother.
One night he escapes and hell brakes loose.
The Cast members are more older than high school age but then again, I met some sixteen year old people that look thirty so it depends on the individual. The Acting is solid and the cast all put effort into this movie which makes it interesting to watch. The films illustrated on the Drive in screen are fun to watch and I had a great time watching the movie. The Actors are likable and I wanted them to live so obviously they made you care about their characters, except for Billy who turned out to be a unstoppable nutball. I give it 8 out of 10, it is a good movie and wished it was a big screen block buster with the same cast because it is a good idea to be honest. I watched it many times over the years and doesn't disappoint for a low budget movie. I recommend this and it is worth a look.
The Cast members are more older than high school age but then again, I met some sixteen year old people that look thirty so it depends on the individual. The Acting is solid and the cast all put effort into this movie which makes it interesting to watch. The films illustrated on the Drive in screen are fun to watch and I had a great time watching the movie. The Actors are likable and I wanted them to live so obviously they made you care about their characters, except for Billy who turned out to be a unstoppable nutball. I give it 8 out of 10, it is a good movie and wished it was a big screen block buster with the same cast because it is a good idea to be honest. I watched it many times over the years and doesn't disappoint for a low budget movie. I recommend this and it is worth a look.
Honking your horn will only delay the movie...
Drive-In-Freak11 January 2005
This is a direct to video release called "Drive In".You just can't expect too much out of it.I found a $5 VHS copy at a backwoods truck-stop and couldn't get it up to the cashier fast enough.
It's it "bad"? You bet,It has to be doesn't it? It was mostly shot at a drive-in with a video camera with about the same budget as the price of a popcorn and a large Coke at the snack bar.A (well...let's just call him "slow" to keep from being too unkind about it) teenage boy has spent most of his life locked in his room by his ashamed mother with no contact with the outside world.All that he knows about people is from his mother and a house keeper who are quite cold and cruel to him.Outside the window of the room he is locked in he can see the screen of the local drive-in that runs nothing but Troma and horror films( Sounds like heaven on Earth.Anyone got the address? I'll be there as fast as I can!). One night he finally can't stand it anymore so he breaks free and kills everyone he sees buy.....well.....he...uh..kills them by what ever he can find.I can only guess because we don't get to see anything! Bummer. It works out like this: He swings the speaker around by the cord walks toward the next victim and...and...nothing.CUT.The filmmakers didn't have the budget for any gore.It looks like they where going to cut it in later and never did.Did the local butcher shop close or something? Oh well I guess ya just can't have it all.
All in all I liked it.But, if it wasn't for it being shot at a drive in with Troma films playing on the screen,and a nacho cheese version of the fast food fun game "bobing for french fries" it would be pointless.For big time drive-in fans only.
It's it "bad"? You bet,It has to be doesn't it? It was mostly shot at a drive-in with a video camera with about the same budget as the price of a popcorn and a large Coke at the snack bar.A (well...let's just call him "slow" to keep from being too unkind about it) teenage boy has spent most of his life locked in his room by his ashamed mother with no contact with the outside world.All that he knows about people is from his mother and a house keeper who are quite cold and cruel to him.Outside the window of the room he is locked in he can see the screen of the local drive-in that runs nothing but Troma and horror films( Sounds like heaven on Earth.Anyone got the address? I'll be there as fast as I can!). One night he finally can't stand it anymore so he breaks free and kills everyone he sees buy.....well.....he...uh..kills them by what ever he can find.I can only guess because we don't get to see anything! Bummer. It works out like this: He swings the speaker around by the cord walks toward the next victim and...and...nothing.CUT.The filmmakers didn't have the budget for any gore.It looks like they where going to cut it in later and never did.Did the local butcher shop close or something? Oh well I guess ya just can't have it all.
All in all I liked it.But, if it wasn't for it being shot at a drive in with Troma films playing on the screen,and a nacho cheese version of the fast food fun game "bobing for french fries" it would be pointless.For big time drive-in fans only.
Worst piece of crap I have ever seen!!!
lthseldy120 January 2002
This movie was HORRIBLE!!!!! It started out lousy and ended even more lousy. This movie is about a mentally retarded man that can't even act retarded much less a pycotic killer that lives with his mom that spoils him. His dad owns a drive-in theater that shows horror movies and the mother of the retarded man tries to shut the theater down but we see her do nothing other than use threats at him in public places. Meanwhile, the frustration of the two parents drives the man crazy and sence he lives right across from the theater, he ocasionaly glances over at the theater and gets his kicks off of killing people while he's watching the movie screen. The actors are all killed off quickly and act to dumb and stupid enough to even live that long through even half the movie. This movie was done by ammature video cameras with ammature and wooden actors. And to top it all off.... very, very low-budget in the makeing of this film. Awful.... just plain awful.
A good film for the budget
Koko-79 December 2002
A definite winner! Since the budget was very low, I must give praise to the people behind the budget. The music was okay, a bit campy in a bad taste of a way and the directing was quite clear. I guess it was watchable. I must say that the film was very camoy but in the end after knowing what the film was made for, i must say that it was amazing to have accomplished that much. It was al ow budget/ no budget film guys. Of course it was kind of campy, I mean it was a no budget movie, what would you expect-Godzilla. This film was good considering the budget. the people gave it their best and funded it privately, which was genius.
No one was ripped off!
No one was ripped off!
Hey! That dude was cool! Why did they kill him off?
TheEtherWalk16 December 2002
This is beyond a doubt the worst movie ever made in history. It is a slasher movie in which everyone dies except for one person, and just when you start to like a character or there is any character development at all they kill them off? You can't have character development cut right out like that. It self-destructs and the whole thing falls apart. This movie is total crap. Don't waste your time. It's not even worth a laugh.
Really boring. Not recommended.
willywants16 August 2005
A kid with Down syndrome watches horror movies at a drive-in from his basement window and goes crazy, escaping from his house and killing off unsuspecting people at the drive-in. Another entry in the endless line of run-of-the-mill, direct-to-video slasher flicks, and not an even remotely entertaining one at that. Badly shot (mostly on DV it looks like) and featuring bland characters and bad writing, "Drive-in" can be a very painful and slow film to watch; sitting through the film felt more like a chore. There's little in the way of gore (the films showing on the drive-in supplied most of what little we get-interestingly, almost all of the films are from Troma no less) And the death scenes are usually lame (one involving a girl being strangled to death by dental floss being a real eye-roller). A couple of actors in the film were actually decent (gasp!), but a film can't be fueled by alright acting alone and as a result the film is a terrible bore. Oh, and the nude scene involving the chunky girl
I don't even want to talk about THAT
Completely missable unless you simply MUST see every horror movie ever made.
3/10.
Completely missable unless you simply MUST see every horror movie ever made.
3/10.
Greatest Movie Ever Made!
parainves69630 January 2006
I don't know about you, but I think this was one of the greatest movie ever made. The only way it could suck is if it was directed by Uwe Boll. It had great special effects. Master directing. And funny as hell. A great performance by Brenton Earley. This movie was just amazing. It's the scariest movie I've ever seen. The babysitter scene was classic. I loved the Troma movies playing. I wish I could find it on DVD to buy. Better yet, I wish I saw it in theaters. The murders were carefully plotted out. But I was said that Billy died at the end. Because it was a shame how badly he was treated. I mean, the guy was locked in a basement by his babysitter. He got exactly what he deserved in my opinion. Everyone else that was innocent still should have died because they made fun of a retard who just liked to watch horror movies. That is why he imitated them and that's why his killings were so creative.
Unfortunately it's not a Troma movie
goremaster5 February 2003
The best thing of this movie is the Troma festival playing at the Drive In. It's fun to watch those clips. Unfortunately this is not a Troma Movie. It's about a retard Jason who decides to slash some people at the drive in during the festival. Almost no gore, except for the Troma footage, and I was unlucky to watch this on TV where they blurred the woman's tits in what should be the nude scene. So no nudity for me. Besides all that the movie also tries to pass the message that the violence on the screen influences violence on real life. It sounds ridiculous in this flick. Let's rent some gory Troma movies and have fun.
Padded lameness
Dr. Gore28 February 2005
Warning: Spoilers
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*
I bought this video for three bucks. The front of the video box cover had a guy with a huge knife hanging out at the Drive-In. I couldn't resist. I should have resisted but I was weak. That knife was HUGE! Who knows what that lunatic was going to do with it? Well, I'll tell you what he did with that knife. Not much.
"Drive-In" epitomizes the word "padding". Somehow the filmmakers got their hands on a lot of Troma footage and decided to base a movie around it. The "movie" playing at the Drive-In was gory clips from Troma flicks. If it wasn't for the nonstop Troma footage unspooling on the screen, I would have been truly disgusted at this lame movie. Instead, I'm only mildly disgusted.
"Drive-In" is lame. The kills are lame. The gore is lame. The acting is lame. Everything is lame. Some big hulking idiot wanders into the Drive-In and starts killing people. There's no suspense since no one is even aware that this maniac is in the Drive-In until the last twenty minutes of the movie. Somehow this giant lunatic manages to sneak up on people without even trying. He just keeps wandering around opening up car doors and killing whatever dolt happens to be sitting there.
Don't waste your time with this one.
I bought this video for three bucks. The front of the video box cover had a guy with a huge knife hanging out at the Drive-In. I couldn't resist. I should have resisted but I was weak. That knife was HUGE! Who knows what that lunatic was going to do with it? Well, I'll tell you what he did with that knife. Not much.
"Drive-In" epitomizes the word "padding". Somehow the filmmakers got their hands on a lot of Troma footage and decided to base a movie around it. The "movie" playing at the Drive-In was gory clips from Troma flicks. If it wasn't for the nonstop Troma footage unspooling on the screen, I would have been truly disgusted at this lame movie. Instead, I'm only mildly disgusted.
"Drive-In" is lame. The kills are lame. The gore is lame. The acting is lame. Everything is lame. Some big hulking idiot wanders into the Drive-In and starts killing people. There's no suspense since no one is even aware that this maniac is in the Drive-In until the last twenty minutes of the movie. Somehow this giant lunatic manages to sneak up on people without even trying. He just keeps wandering around opening up car doors and killing whatever dolt happens to be sitting there.
Don't waste your time with this one.
Why on earth was this movie even made?
JBoze31327 May 2002
From the very first scene where we see a guy who must be in his mid to late twenties wearing kids pajamas and swinging himself on the swing, sort of mumbling softly to himself (the writer clearly thinks this is what people who suffer from any form of mental retardation do-they DO NOT) you know this is a piece of garbage. Why they made this movie is beyond me. I mean, how much money could this have made in video sales and rentals?! I'm shocked that it was even in the video store at all. This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen, and the writer needs to be publicly tarred and feathered...or something alone those lines! I mean...a high school drama production has better acting, better set design, etc...I myself could have written a better story and script in an hour!! The story is just ludicrous and not in a funny way...it's so bad, I wanted to jump into the movie so the big tall dude could kill ME and end my pain for having to see this pile of crap! To everyone who made this movie- PLEASE LEAVE THE FILMMAKING BUSINESS FOREVER! You are all a stain on what is a decent profession! Stay away from this movie at ALL costs!
Agreed, this movie STINKS!
duntrune15 December 2002
Where does one start? Poor script? Poor acting? Poor camera work? How about the first part of the movie being shot on video, while the rest is shot on film? Supposedly dead people adjusting skirts? Ultra lo-buck special effects? Haphazard editing? Folks, low budget does NOT always equal terrible work, Romero made Night of the Living Dead on a shoestring, and it's STILL a classic, sadly, this pile of garbage makes fun of Troma flicks, as if this movie is BETTER? Nope, take the writer, director, producers, etc, lock 'em up, throw away the key, and NEVER LET THEM NEAR A SET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
* out of 4.
brandonsites19816 September 2002
Young man who has been locked in a basement all of his life with his only contact to the outside world being through a window that let's him view the horror movies that local drive in plays escapes and goes on a massive killing spree at the drive in. This effort is certainly better then Drive In Massacre, but not by much. This film is so crudely made and the picture quality so poor that the few interesting points the film tries to make are buried under the general ineptness of the production. To make matters worse, this film's running time (barely over 70 minutes) is padded out by clips from Troma films.
Rated R; Nudity, Sexual Content, Violence, and Profanity.
Rated R; Nudity, Sexual Content, Violence, and Profanity.
Waste of money!
OhioChick18 August 2002
The cover of this movie is ten times better then the actual movie. I would recommend to anyone seeking a good movie to not rent this one. I've been a horror flick fan since I was 12 and even at that age this wouldn't of scared me a bit. Save your money on this one guys and girls.
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