‘ …Your nightmares are about to come true!!’
Drive-In Massacre is a 1976 slasher horror film about two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in, randomly killing people with a sword.
The movie was produced, written and directed by Stu Segall from a screenplay by John F. Goff (The Night Stalker; Deadly Intent) and actor George ‘Buck’ Flower, based on Godfrey Daniel’s storyline. The title on the film itself is the grammatically incorrect Drive In Massacre.
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The film stars Jake Barnes, Adam Lawrence, Douglas Gudbye, Verkina Flowers (The Witch Who Came from the Sea; The Capture of Bigfoot; Beyond Evil), Newton Naushaus, Catherine Barkeley, Norman Sherlock, Frank Hollowell, Valdesta, Michael Alden, Marty Gatsby, John F. Gott (The Witch Who Came from the Sea; Nurse Sherri; Alligator), John Alderman (Hannah, Queen of the Vampires; New Year’s Evil; Superstition).
Plot:
A young couple visits a drive-in movie theater in a rural California town, and are butchered by an unseen assailant, who uses a sword to decapitate the man, and skewers the woman through the neck.
Investigating this dual homicide are police detectives Mike Leary and John Koch, who interview the drive-in’s boorish manager, Austin Johnson, and the odd custodian, Germy.
The latter mentions that a peeping tom likes to cruise the area to watch couples and lone girls, and he is told to try and write down the voyeur’s license plate number the next time he sees him.
That night, the killer strikes again, impaling two lovers while they are making out in their vehicle…
Cast and characters:
John F. Goff as Police Detective Mike Leary
Steve Vincent as Police Psychologist
Douglas Gudbye as Charlie “Germy” Garmey
Verkina Flower as Girl in Warehouse
Robert E. Pearson as Austin Johnson
Catherine Barkley as Kathy
Norman Sheridan as Orville Ingleson
John Alderman as Jim
Jacqueline Giroux as Arlene
Bruce Kimball as Police Detective John Koch
Marty Gatsby as David
Sandy Carey as Lori
Tiffany Jones [Janus Blythe] as Alan’s Date
Myron Griffith as Alan
George ‘Buck’ Flower as Guy with Machete in Warehouse
Choice dialogue:
“You really wanna talk to that piece of puke?”
“What a turkey.”
Budget:
$30,000
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