Whooo....that long weekend in May has just past, and we all know what that means!!!
Yes kiddies, it's Drive-In season once again!!!
Down comes the 'Closed for the Season' from the Marquee and up goes the double feature!!!
But wait!!! What's this??!!
These movies that are playing, Scorpian King, Spiderman, Resident Evil, all good enough movies I guess (if you spend umpteen million dollars on a movie it better be half-way decent), but I've seen them all weeks ago in the theater as they should be seen (state of the art movies, state of the art theater). Why would I want to see them again on white painted plywood with broadcasted sound on my car stereo through my dirty windshield???
Compared to the modern theater experience, the Drive-In is actually a pretty crappy way to see a high-tech CG movie or hear the big-shot soundtrack. Drive-Ins traditionally played the trash films. That's why they doubled them up, two trash films are better than 'Gone With the Wind' anyday. Still, Hollywood big studios must leave no stone unturned to force feed you their rehashed 2hr commercials they like to call movies, so sadly now Drive-Ins seem to serve the purpose of milking that last cent out of Big Budget Hollywood releases before they are released to Video/DVD.

But it was not always so....

Just over 30 years ago, you might have gone to the Drive-In to see this weeks Movie of the Week double feature:



And with cool titles like these, how could you not go? Sure the movies in no way measure up to your expectations, but you know that, it's the Drive-In by the Jimmy.....Why do you think they call 'em Drive-In Trash Films!!!
Still, add the snack-bar, a six-pack, your favourite girl and your cool car...that's gotta beat 100 screaming kids and a giant line-up at the opening night of some Lucas flick.
Alas, unless I ever open a Drive-In Theater myself, it's highly unlikely anyone will ever see these flicks at a Drive-In again, so let me get to the movies themselves....


I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, I gotta say, is without a doubt one of the best Satanic Hippy Killer Cult movies I've ever seen. Seriously, this even blows Troma's 'Igor and the Lunitics' away. This group of Drugged-out freaks and their freaky rituals really make you glad for the '80s.
Plotwise the movie starts out like most Satanic Hippy Killer Cult movies. The hippies come to town, drop acid, rape a innocent local girl, the usual stuff.

The twist, and an awesome twist it is, is this local girl's little brother decides to get even with the hippies by taking some blood from a dead rabid dog and spiking up some meat pies with it. After the hippies eat the pies, they make the transition from acidhead hippies to rabid homicidal acidhead hippies and all hell breaks loose. They pass the disease around and soon a small army of homicidal maniacs are marrauding around a la Night of the Living Dead.

There is lot's of early 70's style violence and gore (ya know, fake-looking severed hands and heads), but nothing compared to todays standards.

The acting is pretty bad and hoaky, so get ready for a laugh or two.
Sure after seeing this, you are going to think it sucked, but don't blame me, I said it was my favourite Satanic Hippy Killer Cult movie, I never said any Satanic Hippy Killer Cult movies were any good...


And now for our second feature:


I EAT YOUR SKIN opitomizes Drive-In Trash B-movies. This movie is so dumb it could only actually be enjoyed over your girlfriends shoulder while you are making second base with her in the back seat.
This movie was originally made back in 1964 and entitled ZOMBIES, but was released as I EAT YOUR SKIN in 1971 to be the B-feature with the aforementioned I DRINK YOUR BLOOD.
The plot concerns a cancer researcher on an isolated island discovering a way to make freaky-eyed zombies out of the natives with radioactive snake venom.

His evil employer plans to use this to build an army of zombies to take over the world. Enter our hero, a playboy writer, who, along with his agent and his agent's most iritating wisecracking wife come to the island, aptly named Voodoo Island, as research for future books. It isn't long before he hooks up with a hot chick and gets chased by machete welding zombies and such and eventually reveals the secret of the Voodoo master and destroys the lab in typical pulp adventure/horror style.
There are plenty of voodoo rituals and drum-beating and zombies but not a stitch of skin-eating. Yes, dispite the title, not even one bite of skin. False advertising I cried. Still, those freaky-eyed zombies (how the hell cans those guys see? and they are swinging machetes, I wouldn't want to be the boom-man)and the hoaky B-Movie production make this one worth a watch for the crappy-movie fan or the must-see-'em-all zombie movie fan.

There are two versions of this video available.There is the Out-of-Print straight copy and the one hosted by Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, which you might still find around and the one I'd recommend anyway.