Drive-In Double Features #2
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Drive-In Double Features #2
It’s time to grab a soda, a tub of fresh popped, hot buttered popcorn, maybe a hamburger with all the fixings and fire up a double feature and keep the spirit of the drive-in alive. (There is no “double feature” option on Hoopla. You will just be selecting two films, one after the other. These are some suggestions for your viewing enjoyment.)
A Long Night of Comedic Bad Behavior
Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (2014) & The Slammin’ Salmon (2009)
First up, Julian, Ricky and Bubbles face down the scariest situation they’ve ever had to deal with, the ruination of their business from the legalization of marijuana (!) in the irreverent comedy Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It. Then, the Broken Lizard comedy team (Super Troopers, Beerfest) invade the competitive world of waiting tables in a high end restaurant in The Slammin’ Salmon.
Art House Theater-A-Thon
Cinema Paradiso (1988) & Existenz (1999)
Cinema Paradiso takes us on a journey into film, as a young man who loves the movies, embarks on a lifelong adventure and friendship with a cinema projectionist. Existenz is a sci-fi action thriller that centers on a designer of virtual reality tech that is attacked in both the real and fantasy worlds she creates, from visionary Canadian director David Cronenberg.
Zombie Jamboree!
Return of the Living Dead (1985) and Brain Dead (2007)
We kick into high gear with the raucous Return of the Living Dead, learning that the events depicted in George Romero’s classic zombie flick Night of the Living Dead were based on a true story! Those zombies on which Romero based his first film were encased in canisters that made their way to the basement of a medical supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky. Now the dead are back from the grave to misbehave. Mix in punk rockers partying in a graveyard, bumbling warehouse workers and a mad mortician for a night of non-stop laughs and terror. Written and directed by Dan O’Bannon, the man behind the original Alien. Brain Dead is a great follow-up feature as six young people spend the weekend in a cabin only to have to deal with extraterrestrial zomboids. It is gross, disgusting and very funny, with more than one, “Did I just see what I think I saw?” moments.
Wild, Wild Western Round-Up
Six Gun Savior (2016) & West of Hell (2018)
After a deal with the Devil goes south, Lane McCrae hits the old vengeance trail in Six Gun Savior. Then, in West of Hell, three weary travelers board a midnight train to Atlanta and fight a sinister evil to survive the night. With Tony Todd, who starred in the original Candyman.
Creatures Features Run Amuck!
Planet of the Sharks (2016) & Alligator X (2010)
In the not-so-distant-future, melting ice caps result in a water-soaked planet dominated by Sharks in Planet of the Sharks. Things are no better for the residents of a Louisiana swamp area who have to deal with a prehistoric reptile in Alligator X.
Cult Movie A Go-Go!
Bubba Ho-Tep (2007) & Troll Hunter (2011)
Bubba Ho-Tep starts our show with a wild story about a bed-ridden Elvis Presley living in a convalescent home in East Texas and having battle a Mummy that is stalking the residents and sucking down their life-force. He teams with a man convinced he is JFK. It is from the original novella by Joe R. Lansdale. (Lansdale’s comic book sequel, Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers is also available on Hoopla here: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12970217.) Then, Troll Hunter tells a bizarre tale about students searching a wooded area after a number of Troll sightings. Spoiler alert: They find trolls.
Good Science Gone Wild
C.H.U.D. (1984) & The Puppet Masters (1994)
New York officials in C.H.U.D. try to hide proof that toxic waste is transforming people living under the city into flesh eating monsters. Depending on whom you believe C.H.U.D. stands for either Contaminated Hazardous Urban Disposal or Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. You decide! A small town is invaded by alien visitors who take over host brains in The Puppet Masters. It is an action science-fiction thriller from the imagination of Robert Heinlein.
The Big 90’ Comedy Flashback Show!
Cabin Boy (1994) & Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
Chris Elliot is a fancy lad who leaves finishing school to have a most amazing adventure at sea that involves a merman named Sharky and a woman with six arms in Cabin Boy. Ernest Goes to Jail finds our favorite bumpkin being framed for a crime he didn’t commit and serving time while his look-alike lives his life as a bank janitor. I saw both of these films in the theater and all these years later they still make me laugh.
Twisted Christmas!
Better Watch Out (2017) & A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
An easy babysitting gig turns sour during a home invasion and Ashley is forced to protect herself and the kid in her care in Better Watch Out. A Christmas Horror Story takes place on a snowy Christmas Eve wherein radio disc jockey Bill Shatner shares tales of terror with his midnight listeners. It is an above average horror anthology.
The Big All-Action Show!
Android Cop (2014) & Terminal (2018)
We take a quick trip into the future for Android Cop, catching up with a cop and his robot sidekick who enters into one of the city’s forbidden zones to discover a cure for the illness sweeping the populace. Terminal is an action-thriller centered on two assassins determined to carry out their deadly assignments. It features Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg and Mike Myers.
