THERE’S A PARTY EVERY DAY, A MOVIE EVERY NIGHT, AND ALL THE JUNK FOOD YOU CAN EAT. WHAT MORE CAN A KID WANT… EXCEPT TO GET OUT.
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.
Has anyone seen it ? If so how is it ?
I just watched it for the first time. I’m old enough to remember the cover art at the rental store. The face on the cover never makes an appearance. I was surprised to find out it’s an Australian movie and cast as I’m in NA and I saw it in multiple VHS rental stores as a kid back then. There are some noted parallels to current day political themes. It doesn’t hammer you over the head with it like today, but expects you to be smart enough to understand the message which is a breath of fresh air. I wonder what the historic Australian politics of that era was the basis for the references. The story is a basic “if you don’t like your situation then change it yourself”. I would give it a 7/10 for a B-movie.
To put it in context, there was a number of very upset racists in the 80’s and 90’s in Australia who were panicking about the increase in Asian migrants coming into Australia, and this movie would have come out in the thick of if, I love the commentary of this movie and pointing out how silly the racist arguments actually are.
Watched this last night and I love the whole movie, but the absolute chaos and familiarity of the first half hour is amazing. There was a bit of a lull in the middle, but the movie was definitely a lot of fun. Our favourite thing is how everyone just seems to accept that they’re drive-in people now, including the love interest with practically no encouragement, but when Crabsie floats the idea of trying to get out everyone is incredulous.
Also the idea of towies fighting for wrecks and fighting off roving hordes of carboys is a lot of fun.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/dead-end-drive-in Just choose your country and this should show streaming services which have the movie available. Here in Australia it’s on AMC+, while USA has a couple of options.
