Have you ever been to a Drive In ?

[Allhallowsday]

... 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). 

[RCMerchant]

^ I first saw TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD as RETURN OF THE EVIL DEAD!
Not in a drive in.

[indianasmith]

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!!!

[Allhallowsday]

^ 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!    
I own the first two BLIND DEAD films on DVD... though they can be a bit exploitive and silly...

[Ticonderoga 64]

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!

[RCMerchant]

 ^ 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. 

[RCMerchant]

^ 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!    
I own the first two BLIND DEAD films on DVD... though they can be a bit exploitive and silly...

  What did you say?

[ER]

I have.

[Neville]

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.

[Alex]

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).

[M.10rda]

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/

...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.

[chainsaw midget]

We 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.

[M.10rda]

We 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. 

[ER]

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.

[chefzombie]

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.