{"id":102,"date":"2006-03-29T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-01-08T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:55:43","slug":"drive-in-massacre-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Drive-in Massacre (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;So a couple of horny kids got themselves chopped up by some kook&#8230; So what?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Poster.jpg 1949w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA rash of violent murders at a local drive-in spurs an investigation by detectives Larry (Bruce Kimball) and Mike (Adam Lawrence). <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary points out, the title of this &#8220;cheap horror film&#8221; is the best thing about it by far. It starts off with an interesting premise, and has a few scenes of genuine shock and gore (i.e., the first couple getting murdered in their car); after this, however, it&#8217;s slow-going, poorly acted, and utterly lacking in suspense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Douglas Gudbye&#8217;s performance as Germy, the mentally disabled janitor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-1024x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-1024x613.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye-1536x919.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Drive-In-Massacre-Gudbye.png 1629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; despite its minor cult following, this one is for hard core slasher fans only.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0074434\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So a couple of horny kids got themselves chopped up by some kook&#8230; So what?&#8221; Synopsis: A rash of violent murders at a local drive-in spurs an investigation by detectives Larry (Bruce Kimball) and Mike (Adam Lawrence). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Horror Serial Killers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary points out, the title of this &#8220;cheap horror film&#8221; is the best thing about it by far. It starts off with an interesting premise, and has a few scenes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=102\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62244,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/62244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}