Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls
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So much average
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow The worst part of haunting the highway is all the distracted drivers crowding your curve. Fortunately, this horror-comedy occurs when drag racing produced the most road ghosts. When a gang of teenage hot rodders are evicted from their soda shop hangout and forced to find new digs, lead foot member Lois (Jody Fair) volunteers her rich aunt's (Dorothy Neumann) estate as their new clubhouse. Her aunt agrees only if they evict the ghost haunting it. To exercise it, they hold a rocking costume party that culminates in a girl-on-girl drag race to the death. A sequel to 1958's Hot Rod Gang, this Halloween themed follow-up released a year later is light on actual drag races - and is missing the rockabilly interludes that made the original really swing - but what it does have is twice the zaniness. Luckily, most people who become ghosts nowadays have serving and DJing skills. Yellow Light
Released in 1959 and shot in B&W, "Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" chronicles the events of a group of hot rod drag racers who are forced to move into a deserted mansion as their new headquarters, which appears to be haunted. To celebrate their new home and make money, they throw a Halloween costume party. The festivities are interrupted by a monster who's hogging the dances with the best-looking gals!This is an eminently entertaining 50's hot rod/non-horror movie highlighted by petite cutie Jody Fair as the main protagonist and, believe it or not, one of the top hot rodders; not to mention the stunning statuesque beauty, Sanita Pelkey, who appears to be around 6'2". Several of the girls have a slumber party at one point. As for the "horror" shenanigans, they're essentially the blueprint for the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! cartoon, which debuted a decade later. The film runs 65 minutes and was shot in Southern California.GRADE: B
This is actually kinda a sequel to "Hot Rod Gang" released a year earlier with some of the same characters played by the same people. My favorite scene is when the boy brings the girl home and she wants to make out before she gets out and out of nowhere ( never been mentioned earlier in the movie) he says "well, gotta go now: it's Labor Day tomorrow". I taped this movie off the TV several years ago and am glad that I dd because they never play it in this area anymore. Probably because it's in black & white. The theme song music was used in another movie called "Invasion of the Star Creatures" that seems to have disappeared into oblivion.
This film is soooo corny, that it's incredibly funny!Hardly shown any more, but don't miss it if you get the chance!If anyone is looking for a copy of it, pls go to "Norm's Old Movie Heaven"