Ya know- theater. Not a hot dog and root beer stand.
I seen 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY back in 1968. I fell asleep after the monkeys.
Saw BAMBI too, when I was a kid.
Saw RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD in Shirley, LI!
There's one about 15 miles from here in Hartford. But they don't show anything good. Mostly kiddie fare.
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The first time I visited the US, we did catch a double bill. The only things that were showing though were double bills of Snow Night (the one with her from the Twilight movies), and Battleships. Neither were particularly good movies, but we had fun together.
There was a drive-in in the small town I was from. I remember watching Batman and Ghostbusters II there. I probabaly saw a few other movies, but those are the only two I can remember.
I remember my little brother (who was six at the time) crying when Joker died in Batman.
When I was a kid we went several times. The movie I remember seeing there best was YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. :thumbup:
^ I saw that at the Strand (not a drive in) when it came out!
In my hometown we had one called The Flamingo, sadly long gone.
This town had several back in the 1970s... Some are still standing, even though they're out of service...
The two I remember mostly, are the Bellwood, which is now a flea market, & the Southside Plaza, which is now an impound lot...
There's a tiny one in Goochland that's still standing, but it's a Christmas Tree farm now... I forget the name...
The Goochland Drive in was built in in the Gum Spring/Hadensville area in 2009, & is still up & running, But I've never been to it, because it's a pretty long way from me...
I looked it up- there are only 11 drive-ins left in Michigan. Besides the Sunset in Hatford, there's one in Dowajac (about 30 miles from here) and one in Three Rivers (also about 30 miles from here.) :bluesad:
I have, but not to see a movie.
My oldest son graduated high school in 2020, smack in the middle of the pandemic. So since they couldn't pack the school auditorium with family members/etc. for the graduation ceremony they video taped it, and it was shown on the big screen a few nights later at a drive-in theater just over the state line in upstate New York.
I thought it was a creative solution to a unique problem.
Yes. 3 or 4 times to the Goochland Drive-In in Virginia.
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I remember seeing when they were new LT. ROBIN CRUSOE (1966 which means I was about 4.5) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and about a year later COLD TURKEY ... at Drive Ins. In the '80s, lots of crap like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT III, METALSTORM THE DESTRUCTION OF JAROD SIN ( :lookingup:) even STAR WARS (in re-release) and MESSIAH OF EVIL... and best of all, GREMLINS in 1984. It opens with Christmas Baby Please Come Home and the entire Drive In started cheering whistling and pounding approval that HOT July night...
Quote from: Cult_Moody_Movies on March 31, 2023, 04:34:12 PM
Yes. 3 or 4 times to the Goochland Drive-In in Virginia.
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Nice! :thumbup:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2023, 05:32:44 PM
I remember seeing when they were new LT. ROBIN CRUSOE (1966 which means I was about 4.5) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and about a year later COLD TURKEY ... at Drive Ins. In the '80s, lots of crap like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT III, METALSTORM THE DESTRUCTION OF JAROD SIN ( :lookingup:) even STAR WARS (in re-release) and MESSIAH OF EVIL... and best of all, GREMLINS in 1984. It opens with Christmas Baby Please Come Home and the entire Drive In started cheering whistling and pounding approval that HOT July night...
I've only seen 3 movies at drive ins. I would have loved to see MESSIAH OF EVIL at one, though! Fun movie!
I've never seen one in person
Seems like it was almost a drive-in ritual to loudly tease the projectionist for any little thing that went wrong.
Went to the Family Dri-Vin (that's the spelling; no joke!) in Tigard, OR to see STAR WARS, WIZARDS and DAMNATION ALLEY-- the latter 2 on a double bill. Replaced by a cinema in the mid to late 80s that just went defunct.
Saw the awful MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and EXPLORERS somewhere around Seattle, as well as CREEPSHOW 2 with my mom.
Still got a few drive ins in Oregon; one probably 15 miles away or so in Newberg.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 31, 2023, 05:42:08 PM
... I would have loved to see MESSIAH OF EVIL at one, though! Fun movie!
When I saw it, it called itself
DEAD PEOPLE, the 2nd half of a double bill, the feature
I DO NOT REMEMBER what the hell it must've been.
MESSIAH OF EVIL (DEAD PEOPLE) was already about 10 years old the first time I saw it but I never forgot it. We were stoned. It scared the p**s out of us! It has a 3rd title I think (like other '70s Horrors I love).
^ I first saw TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD as RETURN OF THE EVIL DEAD!
Not in a drive in.
My brother took me to see THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK at the local drive thru when I was about 8 or so.
Terrified me!!!
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 31, 2023, 07:17:06 PM
^ I first saw TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD as RETURN OF THE EVIL DEAD!
Not in a drive in.
At the long defunct SciFilm Forum commentary I made about
TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (which I like) got me thrown off! :lookingup:
I own the first two
BLIND DEAD films on DVD... though they can be a
bit exploitive and silly... :teddyr:
There were around 5 or 6 drive-ins in my area back in the 1970's-80's and I got to see some great stuff there back in the day..I saw THE OMEN, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. AIRPORT '77, JAWS, ZOMBIE, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, ROCKY II, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE ENFORCER, PROM NIGHT, PHANTASM, HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, DAWN OF THE DEAD, SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM, MARK OF THE DEVIL, EVIL DEAD.THE HOWLING among others. Great times for sure!
^ From your list I saw JAWS, AIRPORT 77, the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, the ENFORCER, HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, and the HOWLING at the local theater in Paw Paw, Michigan, but not at a drive in. :bluesad:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2023, 10:14:01 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 31, 2023, 07:17:06 PM
^ I first saw TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD as RETURN OF THE EVIL DEAD!
Not in a drive in.
At the long defunct SciFilm Forum commentary I made about TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (which I like) got me thrown off! :lookingup:
I own the first two BLIND DEAD films on DVD... though they can be a bit exploitive and silly... :teddyr:
:bouncegiggle: What did you say?
I have.
Never been to a REAL drive in. I've been to a similar thing on the late 1990s. People parked on a filed somewhere for a movie screening and you tuned to a local station to hear the dialogue. It was interesting, but nowhere similar to the real thing, at least not what it looks like on American movies. For instance, there where no snacks or drinks that i can remember, and everybody stayed inside their cars and ignored the neighbors.
Quote from: Neville on April 15, 2023, 09:52:49 AM
Never been to a REAL drive in. I've been to a similar thing on the late 1990s. People parked on a filed somewhere for a movie screening and you tuned to a local station to hear the dialogue. It was interesting, but nowhere similar to the real thing, at least not what it looks like on American movies. For instance, there where no snacks or drinks that i can remember, and everybody stayed inside their cars and ignored the neighbors.
That is pretty much what the American drive in that I went to was like, including the radio station (people forgot to unhook the speakers before driving off, so they'd changed from using them).
I've been following this thread for a few weeks but intended to hold off on a post until my own local drive-in opened and I could attend & take some photos. I did, this past Saturday - and now can't figure out how to use the "image" button above to post the photos! Ehhh. Anyway. It's the Transit Drive-In in Lockport, NY:
https://www.transitdrivein.com/ (https://www.transitdrivein.com/)
...A five-minute drive from my house and far & away my closest cinema. (Next closest one is at least 25 minutes away - they've dropped like flies the past five years, alas.) Therefore I consider myself blessed! There's a second drive-in (also) about 25 minutes away from me out in the boonies that somehow I've never been to. (Smaller w/ a more pedestrian selection most weeks...)
This whole region (around Buffalo, NY) was rife w/ 'em 60 years ago and there were at least two others that survived into my lifetime: one that closed in the early 80s and another that made it into the 00s.
The Transit seems like it's doing boffo business, anyway. Sat in line for tickets 20+ minutes and the concession stand was packed like Covid never even happened. Long may it thrive!
We saw RENFIELD and COCAINE BEAR - but will save critical comments for another post.
QuoteWe saw RENFIELD and COCAINE BEAR - but will save critical comments for another post.
Those feel like really good choices for a modern Drive-in viewing.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on April 20, 2023, 12:12:51 PM
QuoteWe saw RENFIELD and COCAINE BEAR - but will save critical comments for another post.
Those feel like really good choices for a modern Drive-in viewing.
To the extent one need not actually watch the entirety of COAINE BEAR, I agree. :wink:
When I was little we used to go to a drive-in in Florence, Kentucky, and I got so I'd watch the ground outside instead of the movies, because wildlife like possums and raccoons would creep out among the cars to eat scraps. (Rats would scamper there too.) There was also a pride of cats who'd hunt the rats. While we were seeing Flight of the Navigator there, I saw two raccoons fight viciously over what looked like half a hamburger. It's just not as fun to see vermin inside a multiplex.
from 1965 to 1978, the months from may to october were when the meadowlark drivein and the starlite drivein were open. my momma took us at least 4 nights a month, we didn't care what was on, we watched it. but the BEST months were june, july and august, when it was either horror, scifi or fantasy movies.
we have a drivein here in wichita, but no car, lol! and it's too hot anyway, massachusetts wasn't like that. i miss those days. :cheers:
There's a spot in Vandergrift PA about an hour outside of Pittsburgh. I grew up near it saw so many movies as a kid, but as an adult they've started doing April Ghouls and September Monster Rama. 4 movies each night so you get 8 movies in a weekend. It's been about 10 years now I've seen everything from Deep Red to Evil Dead. TCM, Halloween, Phantasm, TCM 2, Return of the Living Dead, Night, Dawn, Day, Silent Madness, The Boogens, Flesheater, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Deadly Spawn, Critters, Hills Have Eyes, Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre 1&2, Boggy Creek etc. etc. etc.
The list is endless. That's all off the top of my head but I could keep going.
The closes one to me is almost an hour away. I'd like to go to one, but its kind of hard to justify making a trip like that just for a film.
Up until about 2013, a Pretoria mall had a drive in on its' parking garage roof: sadly closed. Wonderful view from the seventh floor especially on late summer evenings.
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i'm supposed to go to the drivein for solstice, but i'm not sure i can physically do it. the cottonwood is BAD.
Old drive in ads:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26pQNKEOXjo#)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNMJp8G5tA#)
And a typical cartoon short that often played just before a movie:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUvO7ircyU#)
There were several drive-ins in my area when I was a kid and we went at least a few times every summer. Some of the movies I saw were:
* The Godfather
* Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger triple feature
* Ben
* Puppet on a Chain
* Don't Look in the Basement
* Don't Go in the House
* The Warriors
* Up in Smoke
* Last House on the Left
* The House that Dripped Blood
* Grease
* Nicholas and Alexandra
* Mad Max
* Rolling Thunder
* The Legend of Hell House
* The Other
* Damien: Omen II
* Vanishing Point
* Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
* Smokey and the Bandit
There are still 2 drive-ins within about 40 minutes of my house, but we only go once every 4 or 5 years now.
i'm happy to say that we can go to the drivein for fall equinox!!! :cheers:
Quote from: chefzombie on August 07, 2023, 11:42:09 PM
i'm happy to say that we can go to the drivein for fall equinox!!! :cheers:
Good on ya'! Mine stays open basically as long as it can/until the heavy snow starts. A few years back it was open through Christmas/New Year and only closed for about 2 months from January-March. We took our niece to see ELF on the big screen. Good times.
the drivein has 2 screens , and they're allegedly playing 70's horror on both for the equinox party this year. i sent in my suggestions, all hammer and amicus stuff, so we'll see!
:cheers:
Quote from: chefzombie on August 12, 2023, 01:28:52 AM
the drivein has 2 screens , and they're allegedly playing 70's horror on both for the equinox party this year. i sent in my suggestions, all hammer and amicus stuff, so we'll see!
:cheers:
That's amazing. Where are you again?
i'm in wichita , there's only one, the air capital of the world, lol! :cheers:
and i'm sorry, i don't recognize you right off, although it was enough of a ding to respond to you. where are you located? :smile:
Quote from: chefzombie on August 13, 2023, 02:01:01 AM
i'm in wichita , there's only one, the air capital of the world, lol! :cheers:
and i'm sorry, i don't recognize you right off, although it was enough of a ding to respond to you. where are you located? :smile:
Lockport, NY, which is between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. We've got a neighborhood drive-in and they play weekly "retro" selections... unfortunately. the scariest they get at Halloween is maybe the original FRIDAY THE 13TH at best. Usually it's GHOSTBUSTERS or something...
I wasn't sure if you'd already mentioned where your drive-in was located and didn't want to irritate you by asking you to repeat yourself. Howdy, though!
A couple drive-in related movie trailers:
TARGETS
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSc3xAXX5g#)
DRIVE-IN MASSACRE (I love how they misspell it as "Masacre")
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQauTQWryU#)
Quote from: M.10rda on August 13, 2023, 07:39:38 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on August 13, 2023, 02:01:01 AM
i'm in wichita , there's only one, the air capital of the world, lol! :cheers:
and i'm sorry, i don't recognize you right off, although it was enough of a ding to respond to you. where are you located? :smile:
Lockport, NY, which is between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. We've got a neighborhood drive-in and they play weekly "retro" selections... unfortunately. the scariest they get at Halloween is maybe the original FRIDAY THE 13TH at best. Usually it's GHOSTBUSTERS or something...
I wasn't sure if you'd already mentioned where your drive-in was located and didn't want to irritate you by asking you to repeat yourself. Howdy, though!
VERY COOL, i do miss the little drivein my friend owned years ago. it was private, invite/donation only, on a lake. we had some great parties and helped alot of cool charities there, but eminent domain took it... sigh..
Do the remaining drive-ins still have those weird juice dispensers?
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I remember being seriously apprehensive about the quality of the beverage inside.
Quote from: retrorussell on August 26, 2023, 10:48:07 PM
Do the remaining drive-ins still have those weird juice dispensers?
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I remember being seriously apprehensive about the quality of the beverage inside.
LOL, one of the indoor theaters I used to manage had something like that for iced tea. I believe those models have been pretty much cycled out....... :smile:
There's actually three within an hour drive of me. One is about 45 minutes. I've been to that one twice. The first time we saw Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Prometheus as a double bill. It's pretty fun. I'd go more often if it was a little closer and the drive there wasn't kind of scary - it's not that far, but the area isn't fun to drive into at night and it's confusing. I'd like to go with my nephews sometime, that'd be good I think. Maybe next spring
If memory serves, the last movie I saw in a drive in was Gandhi.