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Night 2 at the Riverside Drive-In!
The 2012 Super Drive-In Monsterrama has come and gone, and what a tombstone-cold blast it was. (That's my best Forrest J. Ackerman impression.) The lineup for the second night was just as strong as...
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Who Can Kill A Child? (1976)
Stop trying to consult babelfish...this totally means "Who Can Kill A Child?" in Spanish, trust me."Who Can Kill A Child?" opens with a disturbing sequence of actual newsreels showing the suffering...
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Silent Scream (1980)
Note the little drippy things, readers...those are...NO!!...they can't be!!...YES, I think they're...BLOOD drops...! EEEEEE....A young vulnerable college student, dressed only in her robe and a pair of...
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Squirm (1976): When things that can't kill you, can.
...and then suddenly, there were worms, everywhere! Wait, where was I, what was I saying? Sorry, sometimes a movie is just too close to my heart, and I don't know how to start these blog entries....
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971)
The passing of director Jess Franco earlier this week inspired me to revisit his bizarre film that's known in English-speaking countries as "A Virgin Among the Living Dead". Franco made the film in...
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Farewell, Roger.
In the late 70s, I was a horror movie obsessed kid. I was getting too old for Dracula and Frankenstein anymore, and there were exploitation movies being advertised on television that I was frothing at...
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First annual April Ghouls is a head-smashing success!
The April Ghouls Monsterrama this weekend at the Riverside Drive-In was a blast, and hopefully this will also be a yearly event like the Super Drive-In Monsterrama that happens in September. I had to...
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Blood and Lace (1971)
In a font that you can almost read....almost...Just a few weeks ago I sat mesmerized in my car at the Riverside Drive-In as "Blood and Lace" unspooled across the giant screen, and as each scene...
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Ti West: Contemporary Retro Shock
I admit to being heavily biased towards older movies, and also finding that many recent horror films are utterly boring, obvious, high-gloss pieces of PG-13 shit made for audiences with the attention...
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Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2013 lineup announced!
It's official! Look at all the lovely Cushing films in this year's lineup. I can't wait for "Shock Waves", this will be the first time I ever saw it on a big screen. Plus, seeing it at the drive-in...
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Superstition (1982): The meanest witch you ever did see.
Today's groovetastic flick is a killer witch movie called "Superstition", a word that gives us almost the right letters to make the word "Suspiria" if you re-arrange them and throw the extra ones away....
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Mausoleum (1983): Touched by a Nomed...
Here's a wacky little flick that I had somehow avoided seeing all my life. It was heavily promoted in "Fangoria" and "Famous Monsters" around the time of its release, and I remember reading all about...
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Night School (1981): Off With Her Head!
"Night School" is one of the more notorious junk slashers that came out in the wake of "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th". 1981 was a banner year for slashers, and "Night School" was one of the...
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Patrick Still Lives (1980): Telekinetic Coma Revenge
I remember 1978's "Patrick" was one of those films with a super-scary ad campaign and when I finally caught it on HBO or wherever, it was totally boring. I guess there's only so much you can do with a...
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Hey friends, be sure to visit projectdrivein.com to read about Honda's program to donate digital projectors to keep drive-ins in business! It costs $80,000 for a theater to convert to digital,...
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Time Walker (1982): Mummies, mummies...MUMMIES
Please don't reveal our shocking twist ending...oh wait, never mind.Usually when I write about these favorite (and unfavorite) films of mine, I spoil most of their surprises, but I do include a...
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Keep My Grave Open (1976)
They're not kidding, fella. Believe me.Few films are as hallowed in my humble world as 1973's "Don't Look In The Basement", directed by low budget auteur S.F. Brownrigg. With a modest five films in his...
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It's coming!
What!? Only one more weekend until the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama!!?? Yes, it's true! Scores of retro monster movie lovers will descend on the Riverside Drive-In in Vandergrift, PA to watch this...
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Demented (1980): Linda Spits On Your Grave
Not a film about Juggalos....Someone I can't remember (probably either Confucius or Helen Steiner Rice) once said that there are no strangers, just friends we haven't met yet. If movies were people,...
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Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2013!
The 7th annual Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is over, and what a wild couple of nights it was. There's something about these events that really is like going back in time, and this year the Riverside...
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