Drive-In Massacre (1976)

That was an excellent one.

Good movie but grossly overrated

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie is awful, cheesy but kinda fun to watch. It's better than I expected it to be - I thought it might have been a grindhouse style of film but it's not. It's a slasher, bloody but not a lot of that going on... it's main focus is on two cops trying to solve the murders! The best thing about the film are the two cops who could pass as brothers! Really, their facial features look similar to one another and similar build to their bodies.. only real difference is one is slightly shorter than the other!! I could see these two in a spin off 1970s TV show playing the same two cops and still solving murders. LOL! It's not a film to seek out - even for a die-hard horror fan - but it is an OK watch if you happen to catch it on one night or acquire it in a film pack as I did.3/10

****SPOILERS*** Bloodless slasher movie about this drive-in movie theater that's been targeted by some psycho who seems to dislike the films that its playing. Stalking the lot and looking for action the killer ends up killing some half dozen costumers, couples necking, before the police decide to have it closed down before any more people end up getting killed. It's Det. Mike Leary & police psychologist Steve Vincent who try to track down the killer with very little results in that they seem to be the only police assigned to this high profile murder case. One of the craziest scenes in the movie is when both Leary & Vincent have it out with this escaped or just pardoned lunatic accused of murdering his parents who's intended victim, his teen age daughter, after being rescued refuses to press charges against him! It's the drive-in manager Yule Brenner look-alike Austin Johnson who soon becomes the #1 suspect in this string of drive-in murders just because he used to be a knife thrower in the circus before he got the job there. Johnson for his part has it in for the night watchman at the drive-in Germy in him, besides wanting to get paid, once being a much better knife thrower as well as swallower then he ever was. ****SPOILERS***In the final sequence were made to see that both Leary & Vincent finally got their man only for it to be so confusing that you didn't even know if the film ended or not until you saw the closing credits. One of the hardest movies to watch in that the lighting in it was so utterly dismal that you strained your eyes & brain in trying to watch or follow it. As for John F. Goff & Douglas Gudbye as cops Leary & Vincent they in fact did a commendable job in trying to be convincing, by not cracking up, but it without out a doubt was the torturous and painful acting of Robert E. Pearson as the thankless drive-in manager Austin Johnson who won the acting honors by showing, like those of us watching, how he felt about the movie and being in it like it was more of a prison sentence then an acting role for him.

Typical drive-in fare. A movie to show that no one is going to watch as they are too busy making out.Bue, in this movie, which takes place in a drive-in, someone is running a sword through lovers engaged in passionate activities.It is a dark movie, well drive-ins don't operate during the day do they? The acting is atrocious, and it is just an excuse to show some blood.It's not worth your time, and there is nothing to recommend it.Three bloody murders and the rest of the film is two cops questioning witnesses and suspects.

A very weak and way below any kind of budget. Drive-in movie fare. While drive-in moviegoers are hugging, smooching and backseat bouncing, a lunatic is randomly picking victims to slash, dismember and kill. The drive-in is built on the former grounds of a circus and is being managed by former circus knife handler(Newton Naushaus)and his grounds keeper is the former sword swollower (Douglas Gudbye). Two dim-witted detectives(Jake Barnes and Adam Lawrence)are assigned to investigate and realize the weapon of choice seems to be an antique sword. Hard to find anything redeemable. Nothing frightening or scary. Some of the situations end up being comical. Also listed as players: Verkina Flowers, Marty Gatsby, Patrica James and Norman Sherlock.