LateNighter
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5/30/2007 12:50 PM
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Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
I've really seen only one movie in this category...a movie so bad it played only at the drive-in. The title was The Undertaker and His Pals -- sort of a "D" grade version of Sweeney Todd! Does anybody else have titles to add?
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Dr_Gor
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5/30/2007 7:25 PM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
Thank You for starting THIS discussion, LateNighter! I have quite a bit to say about this, but I will have to come back later... REALLY COOL! Thank you very much!
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divinemsjunebug
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5/31/2007 12:33 AM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
I absolutely LOVE Cheesey B movies. Especially watching old Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies, they say everything that I want to say. There are just so many fun movies with bad monster costumes and really bad acting and lots of bimbo women with pointy boobs. They consider Creature from the Black Lagoon kind of a B movie, but I really think it's pretty good. Also movies like Santa Clause vs the Martians, The Screaming Skull, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Puppet People, Revenge of the Creature, Oh and Jesse James Meets Frankensteins Daughter, The Deadly Mantis, The Brain that Wouldn't Die...I can think of a MILLION of them. They are just such hilarious, Fun Movies...My friends and I have a B Movie night every once in a while (we usually turn it into some kind of drinking game or something like that to really liven it up)...
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LateNighter
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5/31/2007 5:33 AM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
 Dr_Gor: Thank You for starting THIS discussion, LateNighter! I have quite a bit to say about this, but I will have to come back later... REALLY COOL! Thank you very much!
You're very welcome, Dr. G! I'm looking forward to your post(s).
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LateNighter
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5/31/2007 5:44 AM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
divinemsjunebug: I absolutely LOVE Cheesey B movies. Especially watching old Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies, they say everything that I want to say. There are just so many fun movies with bad monster costumes and really bad acting and lots of bimbo women with pointy boobs. They consider Creature from the Black Lagoon kind of a B movie, but I really think it's pretty good. Also movies like Santa Clause vs the Martians, The Screaming Skull, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Puppet People, Revenge of the Creature, Oh and Jesse James Meets Frankensteins Daughter, The Deadly Mantis, The Brain that Wouldn't Die...I can think of a MILLION of them. They are just such hilarious, Fun Movies...My friends and I have a B Movie night every once in a while (we usually turn it into some kind of drinking game or something like that to really liven it up)...
Is MST3K still on, June? I haven't seen it in ages. Also, I haven't seen all of the movies you listed, but I consider Creature from the Black Lagoon and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to be true classics! Another one the MST gang used to laugh at, but is one of my all-time favorites, is Teenagers from Outer Space. Have you ever seen it? (Although, I'm going off-topic here, am I not? Sorry!)
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FroggyBaBe15876
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5/31/2007 3:41 PM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
Alas, LateNighter, MST3K is no longer on. The show ended in 1999 after ten whole years of running. I was quite depressed by this as MST is the ONLY thing I watch on television. To Ms. June, THAT IS SO AWESOME THAT YOU KNOW ALL THOSE MOVIES! I absolutely LOVE all the movies because they suck so bad. Check out my list of MST movies on my homepage and my review of Devil Doll. That happens to be one that is constantly in my DVD Player/Playstation 2, along with Horror of Party Beach. Yay MST!
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divinemsjunebug
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5/31/2007 5:07 PM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
Yes, I was very sad when it ended too. I have a little collection of Season's 1 and 2 I think. I also have about 15 or 20 B movie DVDs. Some of them are actually semi good, I just enjoy sitting back on a Saturday afternoon when I have nothing planned and just pop one of those movies in. I will have to list all of the movies that I have.
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Dr_Gor
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5/31/2007 7:57 PM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
... Ah, the 'Drive-In'.... (sigh..)... Back 'in the day' there were more than a DOZEN Drive-Ins in and around Denver! Now I think there is ONLY ONE left in the entire STATE! And, FORTUNATELY, it is NOT FAR from where I live! Although I have not been in quite some time! They just don't show the 'cool' movies like they USED TO! My Dad was a HUGE movie freak and started taking me to the Drive- In when I was 5 or younger! ... Sometimes the whole family would go, and sometimes it was just me and him! There was one in town called 'The Lakeshore Drive-In' because it was next to 'Sloan's Lake' ... I almost cried when they tore that down! (more on this in a minute...)... One time, they had a 'marathon' showing of all 5 (!) "Planet Of The Apes" movies and just me and my Dad went... and we stayed till the END! And I stayed AWAKE!!! We ate pizza and he drank beer and I drank pop all night long! We got home about 5:00 in the morning! It was GREAT! The 'Lakeshore' always served 'Tombstone' Pizzas! And, to this day, I like to get a 'Tombstone pizza' and watch some of those great old films! Most have already been mentioned here and I can not remember too many others from THAT era! Then, in the mid to late 70's, I got my drivers license and started buying cars... I owned a lot of 'station wagons' caudse I could throw a mattress in the back with a couple of blankets and some pillows and I was ready for the Drive-In, man! The Lakeshore quickly became my favorite place to take a date! Man, you could bring your own beer and booze and dope and nobody cared what you were doing inside of your car! Once in a while a police car would 'drive through' just to make sure everything is alright but, other than that, you could do whatever you wanted to! They were always 'Double Features' and the intermissions were long enough so that, sometimes, I could actually USE that mattress in the back! (use your own imagination here)... AND they STILL sold the 'Tombstone' pizza's! It was GREAT! Some of the movies I saw during this era were: "The Drive-In Massacre" "The Hills Have Eyes" "The Toolbox Murders" "Silent Scream" "Driller Killer" "Last House On The Left" "Don't Look In The Basement" "Let's Scare Jessica To Death" "Mark Of The Devil" ... they actually gave out 'barf bags' for this one! ... the list goes on... but there WERE some pretty cool 'non-horror' films that I saw there as well... like... "Kelly's Heroes" and "Speed Trap" ...more to come...
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divinemsjunebug
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6/1/2007 1:23 AM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
Hey Greg, that is a really nice story about you and your dad. It sounds like the two of you had a great relationship. I wish my dad and I would have been close but he had issues. But we did stay up late and watch Friday Fright Night together, etc. But that is about as close as we got. I can just imagine about your LOVE MACHINE station wagons. You would probably say, it's so much more comfortable if we just lay down back here, I PROMISE I will be a gentlemen...he he. Most of the drive-ins in Kansas City are all gone too. I think there is one out here in Seattle, but I don't think it's in the best neighborhood. Anyway, my friends and I would go in high school to the late, late night drive in show. Believe it or NOT they would show 1970s PORN at the DRIVE IN. The screen must have faced away from the highway because I can just imagine driving by with your family and you look up to see a sex scene. Anyway, that is where I saw Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, The Grass is Always Greener, Behind the Green Door, and they also showed a lot of those Emmanuel movies (I don't know if anyone remembers the soft port movies on Cinemax)...anyway, that was really interesting. Of course we were so immature at the time we would honk our horn at certain scenes...those were the days. hee hee hee. Those are great movies too, later fun B movies. I also remember a theater in the artsy part of town in Kansas CIty that used to play fun movies at midnight, of course most of the time it was the Rocky Horror Picture Show, BUT they would show a lot of double features like Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls OR Last House on the Left and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that was really fun. I wish they would show some of those again on the big screen... I have to throw in something here, you all need to rent a van and come out here to SEATTLE. It is sooooo friggin gorgeous here in the summer time. I got home from my jazz choir practice and went up to the rooftop garden and just sat out there for a little while and talked to some people, it's probably 69 degrees with a nice breeze. Oh my God, it's beautiful tonight, and it stays light until about 9:45 p.m. which is just incredible. ANYWAY, just had to share how beautiful it is out here- this would be the PERFECT night to go to the DRIVE-IN - any takers? ;0) June
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Risselada
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6/1/2007 1:28 PM
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Re: Really Cheesy (a.k.a. Drive-In) Horror Movies
divinemsjunebug: Anyway, that is where I saw Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, The Grass is Always Greener, Behind the Green Door, and they also showed a lot of those Emmanuel movies (I don't know if anyone remembers the soft port movies on Cinemax)...anyway, that was really interesting. Of course we were so immature at the time we would honk our horn at certain scenes...those were the days. hee hee hee.
I'm trying to imagine what kind of behavior would be mature for someone seeing porno at a drive in. I'm imagining a humorous scene with a dressed up couple in a Rolls Royce watching the driving in porno next to your car and yelling back at you to start acting mature after you've been honking your horn too much.
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