Drive Thru (2007)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Directors:

Brendan Cowles
Shane Kuhn

Writers:

Brendan Cowles (writer)
Shane Kuhn (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

At Hella Burger, It Won't Be The Food That Kills You... But You'll Wish It Did.

Plot:

Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.

Plot Keywords:

Horny The Clown | Meat Cleaver | Blood | Killer Clown | Statutory Rape

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Leighton Meester	...	Mackenzie Carpenter
Nicholas D'Agosto	...	Fisher Kent
Melora Hardin	...	Marcia Carpenter
Lola Glaudini	...	Detective Brenda Chase
Larry Joe Campbell	...	Detective Dwayne Crockers
Van De La Plante	...	Horny the Clown / Archie Benjamin
Penn Badgley	...	Van
Sita Young	...	Val Espinoza
Rachael Bella	...	Starfire
John Gilbert	...	Jack Benjamin
Morgan Spurlock	...	Robbie, The Hella-Burger Manager
Edward DeRuiter	...	Brandon Meeks
Haven Lamoureux	...	Tony
Paul Ganus	...	Bill Carpenter
Robert Curtis Brown	...	Bert McCandless

Also Known As:

Hellaburger (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, drug use, language and some sexual content.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | USA:R | Australia:R (2007)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Armada Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: During the hot tub scene at the party, the bottle of alcohol by the cans of beer appears in one shot, and then disappears completely in the next shot.

Quotes:

Mackenzie Carpenter: How many times do I have to tell you? I was being chased by a seven foot tall Horny the Clown with a meat cleaver!

Movie Connections:

References Alien (1979)

If you pride yourself on being a horror geek, you'll feel pretty smart...

all by yourself...on your couch with your dog...at 11:00 am...on a Monday. But that's just me.

I'm not gonna summarize this flik because you can look it up at you're convinience at certain movie data-bases. Do it, then read me.

This is great for those of us who love to be scared s**tless by clowns, but love to see suburban home-boys take it up the you-know-what. O.k. so I wasn't THAT scared, but very amused to be sure.

So this movie LOVES paying homage to a plethora of 80's horror movies; "Happy Birthday To Me," "The Shinning," and "Nightmare on Elmstreet" just to name a few. The gore factor is good and sub-par; just how I like it, though the dialogue seems a little too on the nose, you know? Just a little TOO thought out and clever for it to come out of the mouths of these kids. It just sounds VERY scripted. Not very natural.

Morgan Spurlock (of "Fast Food Nation" fame) is the tiny wink of super cool in this teenage slaughter-fest, and "Jan" from "The Office" probably has more acting chops than anyone.

All in all, the story is more or less slightly above standard for a 2000-oughts movie, the B&G is pretty good, and Ouija boards aside, was pretty resourceful, if not just stealing stuff (see above) I'm a generous girl (surprise!) who loves cheap gore, so if you can watch this one for free (like I did) do it to it!